A little fuel on the fire

[chipotle]

I've avoided writing on the gay marriage issue because it's either preaching to the choir or at them, depending on the viewpoint -- nearly everyone assumes, explicitly or implicitly, that the validity and logic of their stance is obvious.

This is why this short op-ed,"Joining the Debate but Missing the Point," is worth a read. "For a productive dialogue," author Nathaniel Frank writes, "we should be asking the question this way: is giving gays the right to marry good for society? And to answer that, we must ask what larger social purpose marriage serves."

Comments

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

These days I am feeling more and more like a blind man in an art museum.

Being neither married nor gay, and never having been anything other than single, nor the urge to be otherwise, I feel unable to muster much insight into the issues -- like the blind man in an art museum, I can at best understand the gift shop and the museum budget, but that's about it.

The situation is becoming both regretable and annoying in that it is both progressively unavoidable and increasingly divisive, while not becoming any more personably comprehensible.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Unlike you, there are plenty of people who think that blind men's opinions about how to best structure a museum exhibit should count just as much as the museum curator's.

Alas.

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

I do not think I said that my opinion should not count, just that I feel increasingly blind about the matter, yet still obligated to come to some conclusion.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

Physician heal thyself.