The Corner

A Roadmap

In my piece today, I explain why I draw the policy lines I’ve described. But the point is, the position I outline in my piece applies to heterosexual cohabitation, as well as homosexuality. In general, the key battle now, as I see it, is to stop the devolution of marriage into an infinitely flexible contractual system. That covers a whole range of issues that go well beyond homosexuality, although gay marriage is clearly the issue that is driving the larger process. My oft-stated concern about legalized polyamory, of course, is fundamentally a concern about heterosexuals, not homosexuals. The same applies, by the way, to my critique of reproductive cloning, with its potentially disruptive effect on family structure. And of course, my several defenses of Waite and Gallagher were about heterosexual marriage.

Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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