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Ross Douthat: Law, culture and same-sex ?marriage?

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing at his New York Times blog: "So if Anthony Kennedy follows Walker and finds that the traditional legal understanding of marriage is unconstitutional ? and, by extension, that it?s irrational and bigoted to think otherwise ? it?s just naive to say that this won?t have a ripple effect in the culture as a whole. The space for arguing for the distinctiveness of lifelong heterosexual monogamy will shrink, and the stigma attached to such arguments will grow. Old-fashioned beliefs about marriage will be regarded more and more like old-fashioned beliefs about race. And as with the stigma against racism, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to define where the legal regime ends and the cultural norm begins."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).