Where is the evidence for this? Sanctified homosexual ritual acts like those of the Etoro constitute a completely different system than our own. To use the Etoro as ethnographic “evidence” that such behavior would ultimately be condoned in our own society seems absurd. As a social scientist, surely you know that the rules governing sexual limitations and taboos are governed by a whole array of social factors other than the governmental acceptance of marriage.

The recognition of the state of homosexual couples merely extends governmental benefits to already constitutionality-permitted rights to sexual freedom.

This piece also implies, though subtly interwoven in context, the argument that a detrimental change in the family structure necessities governmental action to combat that change. Whether or not homosexual partners benefit the uprearing of the child is irrelevant unless it interferes with the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the child. Thus, the governmental allows single parents to adopt, though clearly this violates the author’s model of the most hospitable child-rearing environment. Millions of families have been destroyed by alcohol and cigarette induced parent deaths, for instance, but the government does not outlaw these because of the potential harm on the child-rearing environment.