Let us reason together

Larry Elder has a great column today about the difference in the way the media handles the MEC's view of homosexual "marriage" and the way it handles Rick Santorum's view. The most interesting part of the piece recounts an exchange Santorum had with a snot-nosed teenager about the subject. Santorum kept after him with a series of Socratic questions that were forcing the kid to justify his drawing the line at two people entering a marriage. When Santorum asked him, "Well, if we're going to say two people, regardless of gender, can get married, why do we not grant the 'right to marry' to three people who profess to all be deeply in love." The kid bowed out of the exchange, because he was going to have to come up with an intellectually solid justification for the notion that marital love can only involve two people. And that looked like real work to him.