Ethics

Weird Worldnutdaily Article

By Ed Brayton

I can't make heads or tails of what in the world this article is trying to say. It's reporting on a survey that shows that couples in same-sex marriages report having better relationships with less conflict than couples in opposite-sex marriage, but for some reason it repeatedly claims that the study is a bad thing for the movement for same-sex marriages. I don't detect anything even faintly resembling an argument in the article as to why. The closest it comes is this strange, hyperbolic sentence:

In a startling revelation that could take the wind out of the sails of activists demanding same-sex "marriage" as a right, the study found, "In general, there were few differences between same-sex couples who could get married in Massachusetts and couples who could have only marriage-like relationships in California and Vermont."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).