SSM: THE SETUP. This is the start of a series of posts in which I’ll lay out my reasons for opposing same-sex marriage, and answer other people’s objections. I’m not sure how long it will take, so feel free to jump in whenever you want.

Today’s posts will probably be among the longest in the series–I hope to keep most of these bite-sized, but today I’m laying out my own position and that takes more time than a FAQ-like reply to objections.

There will also be times when I reuse phrasings that I’ve said before, either on this blog or at MarriageDebate.com, though that shouldn’t happen super often. It’ll happen because a) I’d like to place my previous comments in a clearer context, and/or b) I think a particular formulation is much clearer than anything I could come up with from scratch. So basically, any repetition is in the service of clarity.

Sorry about the whole Blogger thing where the series starts at the bottom and you have to scroll up! But since I don’t know how long this will be or how many posts I’ll do each day, I can’t get around this difficulty.

Okay, on with the show.