How immoral homosexual marriage will change heterosexual marriage
Mark Regnerus , associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin , responds to the Atlantic Monthly 's cover story on how redefining marriage will change marriage, arguing in the Public Discourse that "the sexual permissiveness of men will emerge a winner in the contest of ideas as same-sex marital norms begin to shape the larger institution of marriage ": "...Stacey notes this gatekeeping function as well in her ethnography of gay relationships in Los Angeles , quoting early gay activist and journalist Randy Shilts ’s remark that among gay men there was “no moderating role like that a woman plays in the heterosexual milieu.” Furthermore, Shilts, author of And the Band Played On , asserted that “so much of the gay community’s sexuality . . . seemed more defined by gender than sexual orientation.” The Add Health data concur, revealing that the subject of monogamy and its discontents is not limited to gay men. Shilts described how “some