If you think gay marriage is inevitable, think again.
Just last month, Maine citizens voted for and upheld marriage between a man and a woman. Last week, the New York Senate voted 38 to 24 against a gay marriage bill. The other day, the New Jersey Senate canceled a vote on gay marriage because they lacked the votes.
Additionally, here are four other compelling points from Maggie Gallagher's eight reasons why gay marriage is not inevitable:
- Young people are not as unanimous as most people think. In California, the young-adults vote split 55 percent to 45 percent. Is it so hard to imagine 5 percent of those young people changing their minds as they move through the life cycle?
- Newsflash: 18-year-olds can be wrong. Should we really say "Hmm, whatever the 18-year-olds think, that must be inevitable," and go do that? I mean, would we reason like that on any other issue?
- Demography could be destiny. If there is one force that directly contradicts the inevitability argument, it is that traditionalists have more children.
- Progressives are often wrong about the future. Progressives told me abortion would be a dead issue by today, because young people in 1975 were so pro-choice. They told me there would be no more homemakers at all by the year 2000, because of the attitudes and values of young women in 1975.
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3 comments:
nice post, Thomas. I like the points from Maggie Gallagher. It gives me some hope on this issue, particularly about traditionalists having more children. That makes me laugh since it's so true.
Wow Thomas. I am really impressed with all the blogs in general. I don't know how you have the time to do this--but God bless you. It is inspiring.
Cool arguments. I'll look forward to your next post.
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