One of the great legal and analytical minds of the past century, Steven Posner, manages to draft almost 2,000 words discussing the economic and social implications of same-sex marriage without even mentioning children, other than to fret that heterosexual parents are irrationally afraid their children might become homosexuals.
Gary Becker at least broaches the subject of children, but again misses the point by mistakenly assuming that the issue has something to do with the children raised by "gay parents." (A diminishingly small percentage of the population anyway.)
Let me suggest to my betters that they consider marriage as a franchise (a handy economic concept), built around the idea of socially benificial strategies for rearing the children produced by opposite sex unions (absent cloning there are no other kind). What might be the uncertainties associated with incorporation of entirely new institutional provisions, built around the concept of personal fulfillment and same-sex pairing instead of child-rearing, on, for instance, IQ, rule following, reproduction rates, etc.? Not only do both scholars ignore such clearly economic, social, cultural and even survival implications, but they both appear to gamble on the "fulfillment" role assignment for marriage without so much as a nod to five thousand years of human history.
I wonder if it's even conceivable to these towering giants of academe that one can be undisturbed by homosexuality and yet be opposed to gay marriage? I guess reputation and IQ aren't everything.
Posted by Demosophist at July 20, 2005 07:56 PM | TrackBackWell, you know me well enough to know that I am certainly "undisturbed" by homosexuality (in fact I thoroughly enjoy it) and you also know that I am opposed to "gay marriage." But then I am opposed to the concept of "gay rights" and any "group rights" including race-based "rights."
I did post some reasons for my opposition to "gay marriage" and "gay rights" on my blog but I have removed them and am rewriting them as they were a bit haphazard.
Actually, the secularist and libertarian parts of me agree with some of Posner's ideas such as treating marriage as a "partnership contract" in the eyes of the government and leaving real marriage to the churches but the conservative part does not want to fix something which still works - sort of.
Well, it works for religious marriages but, let's face it, most non-religious straights have little respect for marriage. Whether we like it or not, the nuclear family is a dying institution thanks to heterosexuals. Straights started the rot with divorce (the only sin condemned emphatically by Jesus.)
Birth control and welfare for single mothers have further eroded marriage. One of the reasons for marriage was to make sure that women and children were not abandoned by males. Women can now walk out and live on welfare.
Anyway, I am rewriting my articles on this topic but, as it it not a topic which I find all that urgent, I may dawdle.
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