And to all of you in New York, a special thank you. Up until the last minute, Sen. Tom Duane was assuring everyone that he had the votes to pass the bill. But when push came to shove, New York legislators listened to their constituents and soundly rejected same-sex marriage.  To all the liberal New York City legislators-Get with the Program!

Instead of marriage being recognized as it now is, as the best environment and circumstance in which to bear and raise children, marriage would become nothing more than official governmental recognition of any two individuals’ professed affection for each other.  The burden of proof that such a radical redefinition will not harm society rests squarely and entirely on those advocating this wrenching change.

Yet same sex marriage advocates cannot show that this radically redefined new institution of “marriage” would or could provide any of the essential social goods that traditional marriage now does.

In reality, what they are demanding is that society blindly launch a social experiment with future generations as the guinea pigs. And to make their demands even more outrageous, it would take several generations for negative results from this social experiment to be manifest. By then, it will be impossible to turn back the clock and redefine the institution of marriage back to what it is now.

This is because the subsequent generations will have been socialized with this radically different set of understandings, expectations, beliefs and sense of purpose and legitimacy. Society would be changed forever. The social goods now provided by marriage may not be reproducible by any other means. Clearly, any society would be foolish to take this gamble on its future.