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DAVID BROOKS’S GAY-MARRIAGE DELN
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There have been all manner of nservative rpons to the growg acceptance of same-sex marriage, om John Roberts’s sulkg about gay power to Ross Douthat’s lgh-if-you-will-but-marriage-is-llapsg le to startled acceptance of gay children—or, the se of Senator Mark Kirk, who announced his support Tuday, the credg of a near-ath experience—to bter rejectnism (somethg Gee Packer wr about over at Daily Comment). And then there is David Brooks, who exam the suatn and is pleased to disver that gays and lbians have que misunrstood what they are dog—which is, short, to prove that David Brooks is right about the world, and that they, until now, have been wrong. And th “a reprentative of lns of gays and lbians went to the Supreme Court and asked the urt to help put lims on their own eedom of choice.
Brooks treats gays and lbians, en masse, like hedonistic teen-agers who he’s lighted to see have jt grown up. Perhaps one should be grateful to Brooks for showg nservativ a way to support same-sex marriage while holdg on to their smugns—that they drop might be too much to ask—and jt be glad that he do so whout rortg to the phrase “the old ball and cha, ” turng, stead, to the random Edmund Burke quote generator he’s got rigged up first, ’s worth challengg Brooks’s central, bld assertn: that marriage equaly reprents a move om a state which gays and lbians lived eely to one which they are nstraed—om an absence of state supervisn to life unr society’s reful watch. Brooks se the bathho as if there were never raids on them, or as if gays and lbians had all chosen anonymo settgs over the optn of holdg hands while walkg on the street jt bee they liked dark rooms better.
The disvery that even the most opprsive of circumstanc one n create spac where love surviv do say a great al about the domable search for eedom, but to ll eedom’s apotheosis is jt eedom “los one” when gays and lbians get to marry—and remember, ’s still only legal ne stat—one wonrs what sort of velopments would mer a Brooks lumn entled “FREEDOM WINS ONE. 8, California’s gay-marriage ban?
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