Anti-Climacus

LINK & QUOTE: I found this David Brooks column to be especially compelling. To wit:

"Anybody who has several sexual partners in a year is committing spiritual suicide. He or she is ripping the veil from all that is private and delicate in oneself, and pulverizing it in an assembly line of selfish sensations.

But marriage is the opposite. Marriage joins two people in a sacred bond. It demands that they make an exclusive commitment to each other and thereby takes two discrete individuals and turns them into kin.

Few of us work as hard at the vocation of marriage as we should. But marriage makes us better than we deserve to be. Even in the chores of daily life, married couples find themselves, over the years, coming closer together, fusing into one flesh. Married people who remain committed to each other find that they reorganize and deepen each other's lives. They may eventually come to the point when they can say to each other: "Love you? I am you."..."

and also:

"But in fact we are not animals whose lives are bounded by our flesh..."

Which is to say that I'm fairly well convinced now on this gay marriage thing. It's not unlike the abortion question, where I have some particular feelings on the issue involved, but I see the larger social benefit of keeping the option open. David Brooks is just... so... exactly on. I still have all my reservations about doing this through the courts and not the legislature (some of you have heard me explain why Roe v Wade needs to be overturned to get some semblance of sanity back into that debate, and I find the finding of law in the case to be somewhat suspect (though my oppostion to the kin of Griswold is well known)), but, well, I guess I don't really have any other objection.