Marriage Is For Children

[Natasha]

Marriage Is For Children

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9/28/2008

It's a rainy Sunday morning in the Cranky household today. The D-man is upstairs sleeping in after a restless night of ear problems, Kid Dynamite is curled up on the couch and I'm a drinking some joe while ready this morning's Inky which features an Op-Ed against Same Sex Marriage. While this piece has the same chorus and refrain it is, according to its author, different in that he is a liberal democrat which, ostensibly, means that it's OK for him to support something discriminatory because he's not a bigot. He is David Blankenhorn and since he studied the history and anthropology of marriage, his opinion matters even though he is disregarding the fact that, up until recently, religion was the dominating force in what would be acceptable with regard to marriage and sexuality (at least in public).