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HERE COME THE GROOMS?

By Muoz, Vincent Phillip
Publication: The American Enterprise
Date: Wednesday, September 1 2004

HERE COME THE GROOMS? Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America By Jonathan Rauch Times Books, 224 pages, $22

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If homosexual marriage is ever democratically (as

opposed to judicially) legislated, it will be because of the case made by individuals like Jonathan Rauch. In Gay Marriage, Rauch eschews legal and liberationist assertions and instead argues on the merits that homosexual marriage is, as his subtitle maintains, good for gays, good for straights, and good for America.

The book's great virtue is its straightforwardness. Rauch's first chapter asks: What is marriage for-why does society privilege marriage legally? His threefold answer is: to provide a healthy environment for children, to settle the young (especially men), and to provide reliable caregivers (especially in the case of catastrophe). Rauch assumes such interests are severable-that is, raising children can be separated from marriage as a domesticating and care-giving institution. This allows him to leave children out of his definition of marriage: the legal recognition of two people's lifelong commitment to care for each other.

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