Reality-based conservatism

[nancylebov]

David Frum concludes that same sex marriage doesn't damage heterosexual marriage.

Is there anything else in American politics which is dependent on as weak an argument as opposition to same sex marriage? The war on drugs is based on a wild over-estimation of government power, but it doesn't quite have that weird "I'll make up a definition and insist that it's realer than what can be observed" quality.

Link thanks to nwhyte.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

At a trivial level I think people are misusing Kant's categorical imperative - if everyone got same sex marriages the human race would go extinct, therefore same sex marriages must be bad. Silly argument, which is why few people make it explicitly.

I hear a fair bit in my O community about same sex marriage being part of the 'homosexual agenda'. Of course, that agenda allegedly includes promiscuity of exactly the sort that marriage is meant to limit. Also, as someone pointed out, in politicly conservative Jewish circles 'gay activists' seem to be as powerful as 'the Jews' are in anti-Semitic circles.