{"id":9995,"date":"2009-10-27T03:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2009-10-27T03:13:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:13:44","slug":"same-sex-marriage-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/same-sex-marriage-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex Marriage and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will same-sex marriage change the institution of marriage?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/notion\/486001\/reflections_on_marriage\">Melissa Harris-Lacewell writes in The Nation<\/a> that maybe, hopefully, it will.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Typically advocates of marriage equality try to reassure the voting public the same-sex marriage will not change the institution itself. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry,&#8221; we say, &#8220;allowing gay men and lesbians to marry will not threaten the established norms; it will simply assimilate new groups into old practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a pragmatic, political strategy, but I hope it is not true. I hope same-sex marriage changes marriage itself. I hope it changes marriage the way that no-fault divorce changed it. I hope it changes marriage the way that allowing women to own their own property and seek their own credit changed marriage. I hope it changes marriage the way laws against spousal abuse and child neglect changed marriage. I hope marriage equality results more equal marriages. I also hope it offers more opportunities for building meaningful adult lives outside of marriage. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating discussion, and refreshingly different from many of the retread arguments on both sides of the debate.  Is change to marital norms always a bad thing?  Should we affirmatively defend at least some changes in marriage practice?  How can marriage as an institution become better?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will same-sex marriage change the institution of marriage? Melissa Harris-Lacewell writes in The Nation that maybe, hopefully, it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}