Stanley Kurtz published an article today on the liberal legal-political elites of Canada moving to abolish marriage. Sound crazy? Impossible? Unbelievable? Of course. But it's not. It's serious. And the people of Canada, says Kurtz, are being played for fools. How can this be? One reason, he says, is that ordinary people don't understand intellectualeez jargon. Says he:
Let’s try a little test. Translate the following phrases into English:
1) Canada needs to move “beyond conjugality.”
2) Canada needs to “reconsider the continuing legal privileging of marriage and other conjugal relationships.”
3) Once gay marriage is legalized, Canada will be able to “consider whether the legal privileges and burdens now assigned to marriage and other conjugal relationships can be justified.”4) Canada needs to question “whether conjugality is an appropriate marker for determining legal rights and obligations.”
[Answers: The English translation of #1,# 2, and #4 is: “Canada should abolish marriage.” The translation of #3 is: “Once we legalize gay marriage, we can move on to the task of abolishing marriage itself.”]
Kurtz lays out the strategy that social liberal legal marriage argumentation in the West is taking. Important reading.