Not All Cheer Iowa Court’s Ruling on “Gay Marriage”: Normative vs. Conventional distinctions
The Wall Street Journal carries letters from several readers in response to the ruling: “Absent from the article or the court’s decision is any explanation of why marriage is so important as a civil institution. Aristotle begins ‘The Politics’ not with a single individual, but with a description of a man and a woman together in the family, without which the rest of society cannot exist. Heterosexual sex in the family is normative as a matter of nature or what is known as natural law. All other sexual relationships can only ape it, and aspire to it (which explains the homosexual desire to mimic it).”
