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The Case against Marriage Fundamentalism [The American Prospect]

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If marriage is a horrifying concept for you and you think it is an evil trap, do not buy a ring and ask a woman to marry you.

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50 years ago today the Supreme Court decided the appropriately named case of Loving v. Virginia, banishing the primitive tribal taboo that forbade marriage between people who could plausibly be put into different boxes under the fraudulent category of “Race.” A few years ago the late Mildred Loving said that she hoped she would be a precedent for same-sex marriage, and she has been. Oh, and we won gender; number is next.

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Campbell's Soup does an ad with a two-dad couple.

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I first encountered Wayne Allyn Root in the pro football magazines, where he was offering his services as an investment adviser. Now he has moved on to defending America against same-sex marriage, which threatens to infect the rest of us with the diabolical notion that marriage can be something other than a tiresome duty. Amanda Marcotte mocks him, including pointing out that his statistics don't work. If he applied those arithmetical skills to beating the spread, it's no wonder he needed a new gig.

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Hooray for the Supreme Court (again)

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I've been in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage since shortly after heteroracial ones were permitted, but now my support is suspect because I represent the abomination for which same-sex marriage is the innocent stalking horse: recognition of n>2 marriages, such as the loving, committed one

womzilla,

nellorat, and I have had for more than 20 years. Of course, there will be a whole new set of problems. For instance, we can't have it in the US until we have a single-payer health care system like the First World has because there are already more than enough people getting married for health coverage. Still, I believe we're getting there. An argument for it.

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andrewducker

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It's hard out there for a sexual conservative. Andrew Sullivan, for instance, supports all sorts of conservative values, one of which is that everyone should be monogamously married. But he has noticed that some people are primarily or exclusively attracted to their own sex (being one himself helps), so he was in the vanguard for marriage equality.

But there are a lot of other people who go back to an ancient list of rules about not eating shrimp or wearing garments of mixed fabric and believe that the sexual parts of the list are still relevant to our times. They consider themselves the true conservatives and Andrew Sullivan a dangerous radical prevert.

Heterosexual conservatism raises the same problems. When Beyonce did a song that treated her long-term monogamous committed relationship as something exciting and sexy, the National Organization for [only one kind of] Marriage decided it was a travesty of the deadly serious quasi-industrial enterprise* they exist to perpetuate. Amanda Marcotte discusses.
*Thank you, Albert Jay Nock