Young Conservative Delusions

“A class of conservatives has arisen, again largely made up of young people, who are pro-life but who also support same-sex marriage. Some members of this cohort even argue that pro-lifers specifically, for reasons strategic and principled, ought to support same-sex marriage. The claim implicit in this activism is that the unmooring of marriage from its original meaning and purpose will have no effect — or will have even a positive effect — on our ability to build a culture where unborn life is respected,” my friend Brandon McGinley writes in Children as Consumer Items, published on NRO.

This claim, he observes, “ is more hopeful than realistic” and goes on to explain why.