{"id":77,"date":"2003-06-20T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:24:24","slug":"unintended_cons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/20\/unintended_cons-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some interesting observations (via some linked posts) on an unintended — but positive — aspect of gay marriage: rationalizing custody laws<\/a>. After all, if gender is removed from the “roles” in marriages, then (when the inevitable divorces come along), biases of favoring one gender over another in custody battles (and spousal support) are going to be difficult to maintain. <\/p>\n

And, as an afterthought, Glenn adds (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m in favor of legalizing gay marriage. I don’t see that gay marriage diminishes marriage, any more than the many Jerry-Springer types who are allowed to get married now diminish marriage.<\/b> I have gay friends who are, for all practical purposes, married. I don’t see why barring them from going to the courthouse benefits anyone.
\nThere are some conservatives who say that the advocacy of gay marriage is part of a campaign by some liberals to undermine marriage in general — and I think there probably are some people on the left (or in whatever la-la land the MacKinnon \/ Dworkin types and their near-kin inhabit) who think that it will do that. But I rather suspect it will have the opposite effect. Let gays get married and they’ll become a bulwark of the bourgeoisie.<\/b> That’s my prediction, anyway.<\/p>\n

Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some interesting observations (via some linked posts) on an unintended — but positive — aspect of gay marriage: rationalizing custody laws. 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