NOT DEBATING THE SAME ISSUE: Michael Triplett at MarriageMovement
[David Blankenhorn's] comments about Britney and the fight over SSM actually clarified a major problem with the "debate:" the two sides are not debating the same issue. Your discussion of redefining marriage and weakening the culture is the debate being had by SSM opponents. The loss of important legal rights and legal recognition is what is being debated by SSM proponents. As long as the two sides continue to debate entirely different issues, there is never going to be a resolution.
In watching, and participating, in the debate, it is becoming clear that the two sides have picked the most comfortable battle they believe they can win and have chosen not to engage the other side. SSM opponents want to talk about the culture and the meaning of marriage because it becomes uncomfortable to talk about denying a significant bundle of legal rights to a group of people while impetuous Britney can have these same legal rights after a 5-minute Las Vegas marriage. Proponents want to talk about legal rights because of the discomfort in dealing with the possiblity that gay marriage could result in the parade of horribles pro-marriage advocates predict.
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