According to their view, same-sex ‘marriage’ isn’t just bad policy: it’s a conceptual confusion, fashionable only because the sexual revolution has so badly distorted the proper understanding of sex and marriage. On the opposing side, a small but prominent group of socially conservative academics contend that the first group is simply blind to objective moral reality. Many believe that the right of same-sex couples to marry is so obvious as to be unworthy of serious debate. Where are the philosophers amidst this clash? Perhaps surprisingly, they have remained largely silent. Even staunch opponents of homosexuality concede that the tide is mounting against them – and yet they continue to put up a vigorous fight. Uruguay, New Zealand and France now allow same-sex couples to marry. Last November, voters in three US states (Maine, Maryland, and Washington) extended marriage rights to same-sex couples this year, legislators in Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota have done the same, while those in Illinois, Nevada, and New Mexico have taken steps in that direction. In the UK, which currently allows ‘civil partnerships’, the British and Scottish parliaments are close to recognising same-sex marriage. The gay-marriage movement has lately made dizzying progress. John Corvino dismantles the objections to gay marriage.
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