Greetings from Flyover Country Thoughts from the American Midwest

Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s “Reflections on Marriage”

Over at The Nation, the always fabulous Melissa Harris-Lacewell provides her thoughts on the marriage equality debate (and marriage in general). Just ignore the comments, because as per usual, the trolls have ventured out from under their bridges to claim–erroneously–that marriage is a “very specific social contract, between a man and a woman, with roots as a religious rite”. It’s a social contract all right, but has little to do with religion at it’s root, let alone in modern law.