Sen. Michele Bachmann, et al. have radically redefined marriage

CityPages has a great interview with Stephanie Coontz, who I mentioned here. She just wrote a book, Marriage: A History, from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage, and it proves that hetrerosexuals like Senator Michele Bachmann have redefined marriage. Just by being a career politician, and not staying home with the kids, not knitting and baking pies, and not letting her husband fuck her whenever he's in the mood, she is contributing to the radical redefinition of marriage that she so fears.

And in order to avoid detection of her subversive ways, she is blaming it on the gays.

From the CityPages interview with Stephanie Coontz:

"CP: You have observed that you and right-wing evangelical James Dobson finally agree on something.

Coontz: It's not so much that I agree as it is that I think for once he has understated the case. James Dobson says that allowing gays and lesbians marriage threatens to end marriage and family as we have known it for 5,000 years. I usually disagree with people who make catastrophic claims, but I think in this case Dobson is understating the case. Marriage and the family as we've known it has already been decisively overturned.

Where I continue to disagree with him is that it is heterosexuals who changed marriage and gays and lesbians are simply responding to that change. It was heterosexuals who said marriage does not have to be about procreation. It was heterosexuals who pioneered the reproductive revolution that allowed infertile people to have kids. It was heterosexuals who gave you a choice whether to marry. And it was heterosexuals who said we don't have to organize marriage around rigid gender roles; men and women can construct what roles they want to play, or they can play equal roles.

Once you've gotten rid of the idea that it has to be for procreation, that is has to be between two people who can physically reproduce, and that you must have kids if you can, and that one has to play the male role and one the female role, then many of the arguments for denying marriage to gays and lesbians go out the door. "

This book is very timely, and sheds a light on the real reasons for the increase in divorce rates, increase in single parent homes, and increase in teen pregnancy. All of these things have nothing to do with the gays. Read the entire interview; it's very enlightening.