Jonathan Rauch has written a characteristically generous, thoughtful, and engaging review of David Blankenhorn’s recent book arguing against gay marriage, The Future of Marriage. Rauch writes:
[Blankenhorn] wants to lift the gay-marriage debate from its isolation in the mud-pit of the partisan culture wars and place it within a larger theory of marriage. He also wants to put an end to the days when gay-marriage advocates can say that there is no serious case against gay marriage. In both respects, he succeeds.
Nevertheless,
Blankenhorn has painted himself into a corner, one where the American public will never join him. If, as he insists, we cannot sustainably mix and match values and policies