WOW. Richard Brookhiser pens a rambling essay that wanders up to the same-sex marriage debate but doesn’t quite wade into the melee. But then at the very end he drops this little bomb:

“The great question, which none of the three positions can convincingly address, is: Are we bodies, and if so, what effect does that have? Emerson wrote about ‘the iron wire on which the beads are strung.’ He thought the iron wire that controlled our destinies was temperament. Is there also a dash of biology in the alloy? Do our bodies give us options, and limit options? Are we discarnate souls, or dying animals? And should the law care?”

I leave this with you for now; will write on it myself Monday. Link via the Marriage Debate blog, which you all should bookmark!