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Anti-gay-marriage: anti-birth-control? Apr 11th 2013, 18:56 Marriage Equality and Contraception » Dispatches from the Culture Wars notes Damon Linker's article How gay marriage's fate was sealed more than 50 years ago - The Week, an analysis of 12-144-12-307 Brief for Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan T. Anderson in Support of Hollingsworth and Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group Addressing the Merits and Supporting Reversal - 12-144-12-307_merits_reversal_rpg_etal.authcheckdam.pdf The three authors of that brief argue that "our civilization" has always defined marriage as a "conjugal union" between a man and a woman, a union for the purpose of producing children. They argue that advocates of gay marriage propose a "revisionist" definition of marriage, one based on "emotional fulfillment, without any inherent connections to bodily union or procreation and family life." Only procreation by the couple itself counts; adoption does not count. However, heterosexual marriages between people who are infertile are OK for them, because those people can try to produce children. Damon Linker argues that they are too late by over half a century, that the birth-control pill helped people have procreation-less marriages. This seems like a right-wing-Catholic viewpoint, and at least two of the authors of that brief are Catholics. It's not difficult to poke holes in their arguments, and their view of what a marriage ought to be reminds me of deep-sea anglerfish.

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