Writes Adam Young: "As a subject of the only jurisdiction in North America where the State has granted legal use of the word 'marriage' to homosexuals, I'd like to add my thoughts on the Epstein-Hardman-DeCoster discussion. It was only a few years ago when over 80% of the members of the Canadian federal parliament passed a resolution declaring that marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. Yet, this has now recently been overturned by a single court in Ontario and in response the federal government is now crafting a bill to legitimize homosexual marriage.
"The experience of Canada has illustrated Karen's point, I think, as the hostility of the modern state to 'inequality' is absolute. From the modern State's basis in equality, it is inevitable that many will claim the existing State privileges for traditional norms to legitimize what was only recently abnormal. Homosexual marriage is just one such example. So long as the State monopolizes social institutions, the pressures to equalize access to them will grow as these movements for widescale legitimacy grow, such as homosexual marriage."
