A few months back, I wrote a piece about how to reduce abortions,
including strengthening adoption funding and birth control in the US. Basically, what I said was that no one really
likes abortions, no one celebrates them, and no one wants them to happen in
record numbers. Making them illegal won’t
work, and but making them safe, legal, and cheap isn’t a great option at
preventing them, either. I wasn’t really
looking at abortion from the moral perspective, just as an issue that we’d all
like to reduce the instances in which it occurs. Well, now it’s time for round two, only this
time, with Gay Marriage.
I’m about to make two seemingly contradictory statements, and then I’m
going to show how they don’t have to be contradictory. One is, on its face, wildly socially
conservative, and one is wildly socially liberal, and I believe them both:
- I believe that gay and lesbian people should have the exact same rights as heterosexual people, including with regard to benefits for uniting in love in the eyes of the Government.
- I don’t think that the government should recognize Gay Marriage.
