A reader writes

I know Iowa is a small state, but perhaps some of your readers will be interested in the campaign to save marriage here with a constitutional amendment(which a majority of Iowans support).

I’m sure this movement would welcome any support, and saving marriage in Iowa will help save it in the entire nation.

Seems worth a shot, though I’m not particularly certain that a lasting majority of people in the US could articulate a coherent argument for a biblical understanding of marriage since, as near as I can tell, virtually all Americans believe, at bottom, that consent is the sole criterion for what constitutes the good in virtually any social situation. They may have various “ick” reactions to this and that aberration (some of which are actual sins and some of which are mere departures from bourgeois convention). But they have almost no actual thought-through moral ideas. So *any* apologist for any human behavior can, if he gets a microphone or a megaphone and pound away at it long enough, make the case for *anything* just so long as he emphasizes that the participants are freely consenting. At present, for no particular reason, our culture believes that gay marriage is the final frontier for the advancement of “Goodness by virtue of consent”. But, of course, there are a plethora of other perversions which are waiting in the wings and which will appeal to consent as the sole criterion of the good. I would bet that no one person in a hundred can think of a way to counter that all-corroding acid of the culture of relativism because we no longer have a concept of the common good. A culture that sees no problem murdering its children so that parents can afford a trouble free vacation in Bermuda is not one that is well-equipped to articulate a vision of the common good, or sacrifice of pleasure for the sake of virtue.