Jonathan Rauch, IGF's co-managing editor, made the conservative
case for gay marriage to students at Princeton, the Daily
Princetonian
reports:
Rauch said gay marriage would make people take the institution of marriage more seriously and encourage single parents to remarry. "My belief is that the cultural message that same-sex marriage will send is not that 'anything goes,' but that marriage goes," he said. . . . As a result, he said, fewer children would be born out of wedlock and more would be raised in two-parent homes.
Of course, the next day Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, argued that changing the legal boundaries of marriage will destroy Western civilization.
Still, it's good that conservatively minded students heard that
there's another view of gay marriage beyond the social right's
fear-mongering and the gay left's focus on "rights" and "equality"
(which sound good to liberal ears but won't win arguements with
conservatives who've been told gay matriomy will destroy the
institution).
--Stephen H. Miller