Fred Barnes (via Timothy Dalrymple) compares marriage equality and abortion:
Foes of gay rights are now seen by the press as fighting the bad war, roughly analogous to Vietnam. Pro-lifers are waging the good war, like World War II. "You get much less grief fighting against abortion than you do fighting to preserve traditional marriage," says Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.
David French rushes to re-brand the fight against marriage equality. Too late. What's striking to me is how there is basically no real gap between the under-30s and the older generations on abortion. On marriage, there's a huge gap, but the seniors are actually narrowing it by moving more quickly into the pro-equality camp. Jonah Goldberg, on the other hand, thinks marriage equality has already won:
When it comes to gay marriage and abortion, regardless of the merits behind the various arguments, I think the gay-marriage advocates have largely won the battle of casting their cause as a rights issue. It is certainly the strongest argument for gay marriage whether you’re ultimately persuaded by it or not. Abortion’s a tougher case to cast as a straightforward rights issue, even if the "reproductive rights" forces insist it’s crystal clear. The right to life trumps the right to choose, at least for many people. Again, I don’t want to rehearse what are obviously well-worn arguments, but if you oppose same-sex marriage it seems to me that you have to deal with opponents’ strongest arguments not their weakest ones.
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