Jonathan Rauch's Gay Marriage received high praise in a Sunday Washington Post Book World review by the distinguished civil rights historian David J. Garrow, who writes:
Rauch astutely notes how "peculiar" it is that adversaries energetically denounce "the 'homosexual lifestyle' -- meaning, to a large extent, the gay sexual underworld -- while fighting tooth and nail against letting gays participate in the institution which would do the most to change that lifestyle." Rauch is too courteous to observe that this discrepancy suggests that a racist-like loathing of gay people as innately inferior, rather than just a desire to "defend" marriage, may motivate many outspoken opponents.
Garrow also observes, "Rauch is -- no lefty-liberal, nor is he a
gay cheerleader." Just an honest and perceptive writer, but we knew
that already.