Over the past several years I’ve made several comments at various blogs that same-sex marriage (which is a very big step in the overall destigmatization of homosexuality) will lead to homosexuality becoming a socially acceptable choice.

Well, it has started sooner than I thought it would.  I refer you to recent statements by Cynthia Nixon, who, after a 15-year marriage to man, claims she chose to be gay.

Couple this with primary and secondary school textbooks being rewritten to contain positive homosexual characters, and arts and media presenting positive homosexual characters and role models.

I  invite you to connect the dots and extrapolate.

As has been evident all along, the debate over gay marriage and special protections for homosexuality in law wasn’t really a debate about equality. It’s about gay privilege at the expense of religious freedom. (more…)

Interracial marriage is not the same thing as same-sex marriage. Duh. (more…)

Is marriage a business? When the dear little woman pulls down my head to hers and whispers “my mate” and, er, well, one needn’t elaborate. . . . Hardly here or there, what? The point, the thing I’m driving at, if you get me, is that one hardly associates the lovebird stuff with the green eye-shade set. Bertram isn’t actually married yet, I hear you saying, and I gracefully concede the objection. But I hardly see how a few well-expressed vows in front of a beneficent clergyman will transmute the bwessed awwangement into pots o’ goblins. Dashed nonsense.

Children raised by gay parents are more likely to be gay or bisexual themselves, a study shows. Also, those children are more likely to have their families break up. (more…)

Some folks these days are trying to give irrational prejudice a good name, over the stodgy opposition of a few would-be theocrats.

The case for gay marriage requires thinking that gender doesn’t matter very much. Male-male and female-female sexual relationships are only equal to male-female sexual relationships if you think males and females are mostly interchangeable. (more…)

So sayeth the crime fighter.

A law journal paper by Robert George, etc. If this is the sort of thing you like, this is the sort of thing you will really, really like.

National Review.

Mormon week at Patheos

Ross Douthat thinks y’all fellers out to get hitched to gals. That’s how we’un do things out here in the West.

Maggie Gallagher tells me that this study shows that married biological parents blow all other parent categories out of the water when it comes to not burning the little tykes with cigarettes. (more…)

I blame the Mormons.

It was the late Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton who was led to observe that the deranged suffer not from a deficit of reason but from a deficit of everything else. On this, as in other matters, sir, I find him an invaluable guide. Thank you, sir.