Touchstone Magazine Home From the September/October, 2010 issue
of Touchstone   Sanity & Matrimony by Anthony Esolen  Sanity &
Matrimony  Ten Arguments in Defense of Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
by Anthony Esolen  In Part 1 of this essay, published in the
previous (July/August) issue of Touchstone, I argued that, while
many believe that all principled arguments against the
legalization of same-sex “marriage” (or, more accurately,
pseudogamy) must stem from religious precepts, I could present
ten such arguments based solely on common sense, history, and
logic. In that essay, I enumerated the first six of those ten
objections; here, I present the other four.  Trust Undermined
7. The legalization of homosexual pseudogamy seals us in a
culture of divorce. In the United States, it is estimated that
nearly half of all marriages will end in divorce. It is hard to
see how any community can survive the resulting break-up of
homes, the smashing of friendships, the jumble and shuffle of
neighborhoods, and the underlying ass