Let's Talk About "Traditional Marriage"
Let's Talk About "Traditional Marriage" It is PRIDE MONTH. That means, among other things, that pundits like Ben Shapiro will seek to inform all the rest of us that even tolerating, let alone celebrating, a person being gay or trans, or acknowledging marital rights of persons in this community, is certain evidence that civilization is collapsing. Here is a recent Twitter post from Mr. Shapiro. Any society that isn't normatively based on heterosexual family formation is definitionally doomed to collapse. Pretending that society ought to be apathetic about such matters -- or even worse, condemnatory of the presence of traditional norms -- is civilizationally suicidal. In other words, if Target sells Pride merchandise, Target is, as a corporation, somehow condemning the traditional norm of heterosexual marriage. It i...