What Friedrich Hayek Can Teach Us About Gay Marriage
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What Friedrich Hayek Can Teach Us About Gay Marriage
Objections to these unions: what Friedrich Hayek can teach us about gay marriage
THERE ARE ONLY two objections to same-sex marriage that are intellectually honest and internally consistent. One is the simple anti-gay position: “It is the law’s job to stigmatize and disadvantage homosexuals, and the marriage ban is a means to that end.”The other is the argument from tradition–which turns out, on inspection, not to be so simple.
Many Americans may agree that there are plausible, even compelling, reasons to allow same-sex marriage, and that many of the objections to such unions are overwrought, unfair, or misguided. And yet they draw back.They have reservations that are hard to pin down but that seem not a whit less powerful for that. They may cite religion or culture, but the roots of their misgivings go even deeper. Press them, and they might say something like this:
I understand how hard it must be to live a marriage less life, or at least I try to understand. I see that some of the objections to same-sex marriage are more about excluding gays than about defending marriage. Believe me, I am no homophobe; I want gay people to have joy and comfort.I respect their relationships and their love, even if they are not what I would want for myself.
But look. No matter how I come at this question, I keep bumping into the same wall. For the entire history of civilization, marriage has been between men and women.In every religion, every culture, every society–maybe with some minor and rare exceptions, none of them part of our own heritage–marriage has been reserved for the union of male and female. All the words in the world cannot change that.
Same-sex marriage would not be an incremental tweak but a radical reform, a break with all of Western history.
I’m sorry. I am not prepared to take that step, not when we are talking about civilization’s bedrock institution. I don’t know that I can even give you good reasons. It is just that what you are asking for is too much.
Perhaps it doesn’t matter what marriage is for, or perhaps we can’t know exactly what marriage is for. Perhaps it is enough simply to say that marriage is as it is, and you can’t just make it something else.I call this the Hayekian argument, for Friedrich August von Hayek, one of the 20th century’s great economists and philosophers.
Hayek the Conservative?
Hayek–Austrian by birth, British by adoption, winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences–is generally known as one of the leading theoreticians of free market economics and, more broadly, of libertarian (he always said “liberal”) social thought.He was eloquent in his defense of the dynamic change that markets bring, but many people are less aware of a deeply traditionalist, conservative strand in his thinking, a strand that traces its lineage back at least to Edmund Burke, the 18th-century English philosopher and politician.
Burke famously poured scorn on the French Revolution and its claims to be inventing a new and enlightened social order. The attempt to reinvent society on abstract principles would result not in utopia, he contended, but in tyranny. For Burke, the existing order might be flawed, even in some respects evil, but it had an organic sense to it; throwing the whole system out the window would bring greater flaws and larger evils.
Outside Britain and America, few people listened. The French Revolution inspired generations of reformers to propose their own utopian social experiments.Communism was one such, fascism another; today, radical Islamism (the political philosophy, not the religion) is yet one more. “The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell,” wrote Karl Popper, another great Austrian-British philosopher, in 1945, when the totalitarian night looked darkest.
He and Hayek came of age in the same intellectual climate, when not only Marxists and fascists but many mainstream Western intellectuals took for granted that a handful of smart people could make better social decisions than could chaotically markets, blind traditions, or crude majorities……
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