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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>by Chris Bodenner</em></span></p>
<p>Thrice-married Sam Schulman&#0160;has a&#0160;sprawling essay in the Weekly Standard entitled &quot;<a href="http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/533narty.asp">The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage</a>&quot; (the lack of&#0160;kinship, apparently).&#0160;Isaac Chotiner pretty much <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/05/23/the-worst-case-yet-against-gay-marriage.aspx">lets</a> the awful piece speak for itself:</p>
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<p>The sense that Schulman has never met a gay person gets stronger by the paragraph, before culminating with this gem:</p>
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<p>Gay marriage may reside outside the kinship system, but it has all the wedding-planning, nest-building fun of marriage but none of its rules or obligations (except the duties that all lovers have toward one another). Gay spouses have none of our guilt about sex-before-marriage. They have no tedious obligations towards in-laws, need never worry about Oedipus or Electra, won&#39;t have to face a menacing set of brothers or aunts should they betray their spouse. But without these obligations&#8211;why marry? Gay marriage is as good as no marriage at all.</p>
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<p>He&#0160;even cites Oakeshott to make his case. Brace yourself.</p>
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