The continuing adventures of that eternal man of mystery…
And now for something completely different! I’m an old-time fan of D&D (Dungeons and Dragons for you savages out there) and thought I would make a meme based off of the classic D&D alignments. Here is my first attempt, using only comic book characters. I put some thought into it, and there are lots of … Read more
This is part 8 of 8 of my series on marriage, based on Girgis’ What is Marriage? Marriage is a comprehensive union. The state has excellent reasons to recognize it and enact the correct view of it. These reasons are not rooted in some obscure ideology or private interest, but variously and deeply in human … Read more
Revisionists raise objections to the conjugal view: that it is inconsistent in recognizing infertile marriages, and at odds with the principle of equal access to marriage. Here I’ll show that both objections fail. First, infertility. An infertile man and woman can together still form a true marriage–a comprehensive union–which would differ only in degree, not … Read more
The harms of redefining civil marriage would extend beyond the couple and their children, to include anyone who holds the conjugal view. Americans are not particularly patient with those we think are enemies of equality. People who have attitudes that remind us of Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps or forbidding women the vote are today’s … Read more
So, then, what is the harm? To pick up right where we left off, as a revisionist might put it, “how would gay marriage affect your lives, liberties, or opportunities, or your own marriages?” Remember that from the beginning I have said that this debate is not about homosexuality, but about marriage. I’ll show later … Read more