My latest piece concerning the homosexualist threat to the institution of marriage is up at Enter Stage Right. Given ESR‘s strongly libertarian bent, I’m grateful that they allowed me to publish paragraphs like the following:
As previously mentioned, marriage is no mere private contract between individuals. It concerns the good of the individual, the good of the family and for the good of society as a whole. While the marital contract is entered into as an exclusive relationship between a man and a woman, marriage nevertheless possesses a social dimension into which children are born, nurtured and educated. Subsequently, marriage is unequal to other to other contracts between humans; by its very nature, its effects are not merely restricted to those who contract the marriage. Rather, marriage both profoundly and directly impacts upon the lives of others, namely, the children born into the relationship. For this reason, a society can never exclusively define marriage in terms of individual rights without placing its stability at great risk. Unlike other relationships that merely concern private individuals, marriage cannot be left to succeed or fail upon the merits of the individuals who contract it.
Also, please keep John Pacheco (who helped me with the above piece) in as he is one of the key promoters. of today’s pro-marriage gathering on Parliament Hill.