MATHETΩN

I do not think that the defenders of traditional marriage can in the end win this raging fight, even if they were to find a spokesman who can be erudite. For supposedly Americans’ minds are to sort out a legal purpose for marriage — is it a smattering of economic rewards? is it a merit-badge? is it a license to venereal congress? — but all the while their hearts have no legal sensation, but a personal feeling hot-sweet as nostalgia: that marriage is one person’s promising another to love him always and become his family and recording that for the world to see.