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How Our View on Gay Marriage is Zoned Out (2, in response to Adam)

Posted on by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

In response to Adam’s question:   I think that first it would be good to point out the rhetorical strategy of Blankenhorn’s op-ed just to establish some common field of tropes.   So, here we have a conservative guy (I’m not going into what that means, as you, Adam, have a much more detailed view [...]

How Our View on Gay Marriage is Zoned Out

Posted on by A. Staley Groves

The following op-ed by David Blankenhorn in the New York Times addresses his volte-face on the issue of gay marriage. Here is a soundbite:   With each passing year, we see higher and higher levels of unwed childbearing, nonmarital cohabitation and family fragmentation among heterosexuals. Perhaps some of this can be attributed to the reconceptualization of [...]