Tag Archives: Mark Joseph Stern

“The problem here, of course, is that an honest answer—’your honor, we believe gay people will destroy the marital institution altogether’—would undermine the supposedly secular, animus-free nature of these arguments. In developing them, anti-gay activists began with a conclusion—gay people don’t deserve the rights that we straight people have—then worked backward, camouflaging each prejudiced premise with a supposedly neutral talking …