Fox News: Marriage died in 2013

Marriage, we hardly knew ye

KATIE MCDONOUGH

Marriage died in 2013.

And marriage did not die of natural causes, either. It was murdered by the 18 states with marriage equality laws and a recent court decision in Utah allowing consenting adults to live and have sex with multiple other consenting adults, according to Fox News contributor Keith Ablow.

That Ablow would be hyperbolic about a trend toward greater legal equality for gay couples and the decriminalization of nonmonogamous sexual relationships isn’t surprising. What is unexpected coming from Ablow is that in his quest to be a bigot, he managed to pen a radical critique of marriage that mirrors what queer activists and other critics of marriage from the left have been arguing for decades.

Namely, that the state should get out of the marriage business.

According to Ablow, the institution is officially “over” because recent marriage equality victories and the nullification of parts of Utah’s anti-bigamy statute have challenged its traditional legal boundaries and engaged the courts in the question of what kinds of relationships may also be eligible for recognition from the state.

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full article:
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/02/fox_news_marriage_died_in_2013/