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Gay Marriage will slowly destroy heterosexual marriage

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July 4, 2012 ( thePublicDiscourse.com ) - “We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appreciation among the broad society of the marital institution? Is there any evidence that the re-institutionalization of marriage is happening as a result of opposing gay marriage? And the best answer I can give to that is ‘no.’” – David Blankenhorn . With that quote Mark Oppenheimer, the Beliefs columnist of the New York Times , begins his transcript of a new documentary, “ David Blankenhorn and the Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage ,” which was released on last month along with an op-ed by Blankenhorn in the New York Times entitled “ How My View on Gay Marriage Changed .” Maybe you’ve never heard of David Blankenhorn. But he’s a very significant figure in the larger struggle over our fraying marriage culture. In the early 1990s, Blankenhorn wrote a book called Fatherless America and launched