I heard the most amazing thing on Larry King last night. Dennis Prager, a popular Jewish conservative radio host, was on the show defending traditional marriage. He made an argument against gay marriage I had never heard anyone on the Right make.
His argument went like this: Research is showing that female (but not most male) sexuality is "fluid," in that it can be influenced by social circumstances. Therefore, it is necessary for the state to protect traditional marriage so that it encourages little girls not to grow up and become lesbians, but to grow up and marry men because it is "best to be raised by a mom and a dad."
Essentially, the conservative Dennis Prager (another "family values" guy who has been married three times) is advocating that the government retain marriage between a man and a woman as part of a grand social engineering scheme to prevent an increase in lesbianism.
Unconvinced that Mr. Prager had really meant that his opposition to gay marriage was culturally pragmatic rather than moral, I found a column he wrote last year in which he said:
Much of humanity — especially females — can enjoy homosexual sex. It is up to society to channel polymorphous human sexuality into an exclusively heterosexual direction — until now, accomplished through marriage.And you thought liberals were the social engineers of our political family.
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