MARRIAGE AND PROCREATION: Greg Popcak replies to Andrew Sullivan

[Gay adoption is already permitted and probably encouraged by social workers, in almost every state. Just so you know. --Maggie.]

While there is a grain of truth to his argument, Andrew still misses a larger point. The majority of marriages are not permanently non-procreative. While most couples do spend at least some part of their marriage not being procreative, the overwhelming majority of couples do intend to procreate at some point during their lives together--and most even get around to it at some point. Therefore, times of periodic infertility notwithstanding, the "civil norm" is still procreative companionate marriage.

The chief goal of the SSM movement is to redefine marriage as non-procreative with the back door being to argue the possibility of adoption. But even if liberal gay adoption policies were promoted, I doubt erstwhile generative gay marriage would become the "civil norm."

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