For Better, For Worse

Do you find yourself struggling for an answer to the argument for same-sex marriage? You know it's wrong, but it's difficult for you to say why exactly. Moreover, the force of elite opinion is such that you now risk being labeled a bigot as well if you dare to even speak. Well, the editors at National Review have done a great service by making the case for us. You must read this.

The editors get directly to the heart of it as they argue that, "The reason marriage exists is that the sexual intercourse of men and women regularly produces children." But as true as that statement is, there is another that precedes and informs it.

Sexual relations of any kind are a decidedly public matter. Think only of that portion of all government budgets that go directly and indirectly towards dealing with the consequences of sexual relations, whether heterosexual or homosexual, married or not. Try also to count the uncountable costs of those relations that have little or nothing to do with the expenditure of tax dollars. Now look me, look yourself, in the eye and maintain that this activity, like no other, is entirely private.

Elected officials, as well as the judges they nominate and confirm, will have much to say about this issue. I remind you just in case you still weren't sure about the importance of this fall's election.