Gay marriage

You haven't heard much from me about gay marriage.  The reason is simple.  I haven't read or heard any good arguments one way or the other. Nothing challenging to think about, just trite political jousts and feints.

That has changed.

Bookwormroom, a great blogger, started the discussion off with a summary of the standard arguments against gay marriage. The comments on her blog brought out the argument that convinced me. 

The argument happened to be made by Scott Phillips (my son).  Scott argued in a comment on the Bookwormroom blog that when society stopped applying social sanctions to child rearing by a single parent (it was often the consequence of wars; in the U.S. it was WWII) and took no steps to require or support marriage for child rearing. The state essentially abandoned the connection between marriage and child rearing.  With no state created connection between child rearing and marriage, marriage has become hollow. 

Who marries whom can not be a concern of the state as a consequence of the state's previous inaction.