Peculiar to a Few Cold Places

Interesting insight:

"The issue here is not the relative degree of tolerance accorded homosexuality in past and present cultures. The issue is 'same sex marriage.' Outside of a few recent experiments found in Scandinavia, there are no examples in all human history of equal treatment accorded to hetero- and homosexual marriages.

Claims to the contrary, sometimes found in the homosexual journals, dissolve under serious scrutiny. Rather, as all the great anthropology surveys show, heterosexual marriage can be found 'in every known human society,' as George Murdoch writes in his book Social Structure. 'Gay marriage' is a novelty peculiar to a few cold places during the last ten years.

...What advocates for same-sex marriage actually want is a new right, one that would allow them to change the very nature of the institution they claim to respect, and by that change further weaken it."

(Source: Alan Carlson, in Eric Zorn and Allan Carlson, "A Primer on the 'Gay Marriage' Debate," The Family in America, Volume 17 Number 08, August 2003.)