‘Always and Everywhere’?
Independent Gay Forum Sep 07 09
by John CorvinoFirst published at 365gay.com on September 4, 2009
Marriage-equality opponents frequently claim that marriage has been heterosexual since…well, since FOREVER, and that it is arrogant and foolish to tinker with such a pervasive human institution.
Whatever its logical shortcomings, the “always and everywhere” argument is rhetorically effective. Even gay-rights advocates concede that marriage equality seemed unthinkable just a decade or two ago. Imagine how novel it appears to those who, unlike us, have no direct stake in the issue.
It’s tempting to respond that lots of things that seemed unthinkable a few decades ago—iPhones, Facebook, Sarah Palin—are, for better or worse, now familiar. Full story...
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