Over at the National Review, Maggie Gallagher is insisting that American society will collapse if we allow gay marriage. The logical leaps here are awe inspiring. She closes with this, which is simply mind-boggling:

The future belongs to people who do the hard things necessary to reproduce not only themselves, but their civilization. Marriage is not an option, it is a precondition for social survival. Not everyone lives up to the marriage ideal in this or any civilization. But when a society abandons the marriage idea altogether as a shared public norm, do not expect private individuals to be able to sustain marriage. Winning the gay-marriage debate may be hard, but to those of us who witnessed the fall of Communism, despair is inexcusable and irresponsible. Losing this battle means losing the idea that children need mothers and fathers. It means losing the marriage debate. It means losing limited government. It means losing American civilization. It means losing, period.

Pretty amazing, isn’t it? It’s possible that Gallagher is capable of clear, well-reasoned thought on issues unrelated to homosexuality, but you’d never be able to tell from this piece. I continue to be amazed that the party of “limited government” seems so hot to decide who we can and can’t marry, and is willing to employ such bizarre arguments in the service of this goal.