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The Economist: Evan Wolfson and Maggie Gallagher debate same-sex ?marriage?

By Alliance Alert

Evan Wolfson and Maggie Gallagher debate same-sex "marriage" at The Economist. Excerpt from the moderator's remarks: "On the other side of the debate, Ms Gallagher argues that the 'key purpose of marriage in both law and culture' is the creation and raising of children. 'If gay unions are marriages, then this is no longer what marriage is about,' she says. But is this really the defining element of marriage? After all, barren women are allowed to marry. In fact, as Jonathan Rauch has pointed out, sterile heterosexual unions in America far outnumber homosexual ones. Do those relationships fall outside the marriage model?"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 04, 2011 (boomark / email).