Ed. Speaking of the moral decline of our culture…
American Spectator Mark Tooley August 15, 2006
WASHINGTON — Advocates of same-sex unions of course argue that they only want equality for homosexual persons. Conservative skeptics surmise that the campaign to redefine marriage is about considerably more than simply legal recognition for same-sex couples. In fact, they suspect, the ultimate goal is to set aside marriage altogether as a repressive and patriarchal anachronism. In its absence, all consensual sexual arrangements will be legitimate.
The suspicions will find confirmation in a new statement from a coalition of sexual pioneers called, “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships” (www.beyondmarriage.org). Released last month, the statement specifically endorses “committed, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner,” among many other sexual alternatives.
Organized by a “diverse group of nearly twenty LGBT [lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender] and queer activists,” the several hundred signatories include a predictable list of homosexual rights advocates, sexologists, self-professed pagans, and practitioners of polyamory, among other colorful categories. But it also includes Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun, Cornel West at Harvard, Gloria Steinem of Ms. magazine, and a smattering of rabbis, Unitarians, Quakers, ex-nuns, and leftist Protestant clergy.
“We offer this statement as a way to challenge ourselves and our allies working across race, class, gender and issue lines to frame and broaden community dialogues, to shape alternative policy solutions and to inform organizing strategies around marriage politics to include the broadest definitions of relationship and family,” the organizers explained.
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