Pure Church

That's the title of social scientist and advocate for fatherhood and family David Blankenhorn's op-ed in The LA Times today. During my days in the Washington think tank world, Blankenhorn was respected on both the left and the right. The punchline from Blankenhorn's article:

... changing the meaning of marriage to accommodate homosexual orientation further and perhaps definitively undermines for all of us the very thing -- the gift, the birthright -- that is marriage's most distinctive contribution to human society. That's a change that, in the final analysis, I cannot support.