Congratulations, gay marriage campaigners-you have destroyed the meaning of marriage
Congratulations, gay marriage campaigners - you have completely destroyed the meaning of social progress
By Brendan O'Neill
THE TELEGRAPH
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news
May 22nd, 2013
I know the only thing you're allowed to say about gay marriage is "Yay." and that if you say anything else you're a weirdo hateful bigot. But permit to make just one non-yay-based observation about it. Which is this: gay marriage has utterly transformed, for the worse, the meaning of social progress.
Throughout modern history, big, democratic, civil rightsy leaps forward have had two things in common. First, they were demanded by very large and often very angry sections of the public; and second, it took ages and ages for the political classes to concede to them. And when they did eventually cave in and legislate for the new liberty or opportunity being demanded by the hordes, they tended to do so begrudgingly, often while wearing a sneer.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Brendan O'Neill
THE TELEGRAPH
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news
May 22nd, 2013
I know the only thing you're allowed to say about gay marriage is "Yay." and that if you say anything else you're a weirdo hateful bigot. But permit to make just one non-yay-based observation about it. Which is this: gay marriage has utterly transformed, for the worse, the meaning of social progress.Throughout modern history, big, democratic, civil rightsy leaps forward have had two things in common. First, they were demanded by very large and often very angry sections of the public; and second, it took ages and ages for the political classes to concede to them. And when they did eventually cave in and legislate for the new liberty or opportunity being demanded by the hordes, they tended to do so begrudgingly, often while wearing a sneer.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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