John Guardiano of The American Spectator is upset with something I tweeted the other day:



Last night's "historic" vote for "gay marriage" in New York ought to be a wakeup call to the Republican Party and social and cultural conservatives more generally. We are fighting, I regret to say, a losing battle -- and I say that as someone who strongly supports traditional marriage, and who believes that further attempts to undermine its special and privileged place in our society will have serious, baleful consequences.

Of course, liberals and "progressives" mock our concern. "For some reason," tweets The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg, "I suddenly feel that my heterosexual marriage is under threat."

Goldberg's marriage isn't under threat, but the institution of marriage is -- so much so that marriage rates in America have plummeted and out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed.



Oh, yeah, baby, I'm a progressive now. Anyway, if I felt that gay marriage posed a threat to my marriage, I would oppose it. And if I felt that gay marriage posed a threat to straight marriage, I would oppose it. First, my marriage: Today is our 18th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Goldblog and I met under the chuppah in Providence, Rhode Island on this day in 1993, and since then, I've given her three or four of the best years of her life. Ha ha, I kid! I kid because I love.

The thing about married people is, we like to be around other married people. It's natural, and its reinforcing. Gay or straight, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Anyone who has embraced the institution of marriage makes me feel good about marriage in general. Sometimes I wonder why gay people seek out marriage at all. From what I understand from my gay friends (sorry, friends who happen to be gay), there are certain advantages to the gay male lifestyle, such as: disposable income, sex with a lot of different people, and more disposable income. And yet, so many gay people seem to want to settle down with one person and build a home and life together. Doesn't this endorsement of marriage by people who have been excluded from marriage suggest something wonderfully traditional and stabilizing about this moment?