You guys, I hate racism so much! I wish racism would disappear! That's why I oppose interracial marriage, 'cause that's totally not racist at all.

"I am not able to find any evidence that animus toward gay and lesbian people or hatefulness of homosexual persons is why they justified their participation in the marital institutions."

Okay, here's a little hint. Those people who stood outside gay couples' weddings holding signs that said "God hates fags"? I would say that probably counts as evidence of "hatefulness of homosexual persons."

Exactly. They are angry at us for giving lie to their "truth" by our lives, and want to eliminate us. Globally.

DB: The affected dimension of marriage in many societies is negligible. Many where most are arranged or governed by kin groups. Many societies in which affective dimension is not true.

Holy crap, they are arguing that arranged marriage is better! Well, at least this guy's consistent. He probably wants to go back to women-as-property too…

Only one institution that brings together social, biological and legal.

Apparently Blankenhorn has not read the statistics on what percentage of children were not fathered by their nominal "father" — often unbeknownst even to the mother.

I would argue on the contrary that, as regards children, the real value of marriage is that it supplants the rather tricky (maybe impossible) matter of trying to align the social and the biological, and instead focuses on aligning supporting the social with the legal, i.e. de-emphasizing the biological since it can be so controversial and (until very recently in human history) difficult or impossible to determine.

Ignoring same-sex marriage for the moment, one of the big benefits — to children — of heterosexual marriage is that it helps take some of the question marks out of social paternity. How many untold millions of children were able to grow up in stable two-parent households because marriage is blind to biology, rather than in spite of it?!!!!

CC: Future of Marriage book, now.
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CC: Well reviewed?
DB: Not as widely reviewed as other, but got me invited to public speaking. I argued that we should not have same sex marriage. Got me invited to discussions with proponents of same sex marriage.

Translation: The critics hated it, but it sho' did pander to the culture warriors, yes sir!

MORON!!!!!!!! LGBT people are denied marriage because they are GAY!!!!!!!!!

David Boies will be up in a minute to show you.

No peer reviewed articles on the subject? only 50 citations/ references respectively? and (if I understood correctly) only a master’s dregree?
are they for real?
I mean REALLY????
WTF….
*shaking hdas disbelievingly*