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Sex, marriage and upper class obligation

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing at his New York Times blog: "[F]or what it?s worth, here's what I would ask of America's highly-educated mass upper class (more than top third of America than the 'upper half,' I think): A kind of noblesse oblige on some issues related to sex, at least; on others, a moral reckoning with the cost of the new equilibrium they've achieved; and on still others, a willingness to translate some of the more conservative habits they've embraced (or partially embraced) in their personal lives into law and public policy . . . What all of these proposals [regarding pornography, abortion, and divorce] have in common is an attempt to wrestle with the cultural costs of separating sex, marriage and procreation. The drive for same-sex marriage, on the other hand, involves an attempt to push that separation to its logical conclusion."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).