Can Conservative Religion Survive Gay Marriage?

[Note from Gerry:

This is my first post on Jody Bottum’s shocking article last week in Commonweal. Both Jody and David (below) miss the most important argument against gay marriage–its effects on children and therefore society, regardless of religion.  Goldman misses this component of the conservative Catholic argument against gay marriage.  These conservatives are not arguing for society to re-institute Christendom, but to save itself from social wreckage.  Nevertheless, there is much that is insightful in Goldman’s piece below.]

David Goldman

A leading Catholic writer, my friend and former colleague Joseph (Jody) Bottum, shocked the conservative world last week with the publication of an argument for Catholic acceptance of gay marriage. Jody’s essay in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal is wrong on many counts but sounds an alarm we ignore at our own peril.

http://torahmusings.com/2013/08/can-conservative-religion-survive-gay-marriage/