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At the Corner, Stanley Kurtz writes about his pieces on gay marriage [emphasis added by me, for reasons I'll explain after the quote]:Critics of my Scandinavia work have said that Scandinavian registered partnerships "don't count," because they're not full and formal gay marriage. They claim I haven't sufficiently isolated the causal effects of gay marriage from other causes of marital decline. And my critics say gay marriage, having followed so much marital decline, is only an effect of that decline, not a cause. I've answered all that, but the case of the Netherlands finally puts these criticisms to rest. Holland has full and formal gay marriage. The causal effect of gay marriage in the Netherlands can be disentangled from other factors. And in the Netherlands, parental cohabitation didn't begin in earnest until the campaign for gay marriage gave it the green light.Now, I don't spend a lot of time reading or thinking about gay marriage because I don't believe it's all that important (or, in general, interesting). But I skimmed some of his Scandinavia stuff, and did, in fact, think his main failing was in demonstrating causation from correlation. So I thought I'd take a look at his Dutch piece. |
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