“Now You Get What You Want, Do You Want More?”

Introduction

The impact of Perry cannot be abstracted from the movement that gave it birth. But it is precisely the pro-gay marriage movement’s abstraction of marriage, from its roots in social justice, and transformation that has resulted in adangerous overweighting of the importance of marriage equality. This abstraction both overestimates the value of achieving marriage equality and underestimates the dangers we are exposing ourselves to in winning it by any means necessary.

 

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