Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The making of gay marriage's top foe - Gay Marriage - Salon.com

The making of gay marriage's top foe - Gay Marriage - Salon.com: "Those would seem to be the hard facts, the evidence on which pure thought would operate. But for Gallagher these facts are temporal, contingent and ultimately meaningless. They just appear to be facts. In an email two months after our first conversation, she explains why her opponents are mistaken: “One of the lessons I learned as a young woman from the collapse of Communism is this: Trying to build a society around a fundamental lie about human nature can be done, for a while, with intense energy (and often at great cost); but it cannot hold.” "

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