Slate: Same-sex marriage setbacks may not be all bad news for gay rights.
An article on Slate by Richard Thompson Ford, who teaches at Stanford Law School, says in part... How to reconcile the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans with the seemingly hardening opposition to gay marriage? It certainly suggests that homophobia is only part of the explanation for the widespread resistance to same-sex marriage. A lot of the resistance is less about sexual orientation than about sex difference. In other words, it's not about the difference between gay and straight; it's about the difference between male and female. By this logic, conventional marriage doesn't exclude gay couples from a special status reserved for straights; it excludes women from a special status reserved for men—that of husband—and excludes men from a status reserved for women—that of wife.Does this sound purely semantic? It's not. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 12:56 PM
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