Know Thy Adversary: Anti-gay conservative, Robert P George (Chairman of National Organization for Marriage), profiled by NY Times
”People have lost their grip on the true reasons for marrying, so they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires…. If I, despite being a married man, had this female friend of mine and I said, ‘Well, gosh, why don’t we do some bodily sharing,’ and we had straightforward sexual intercourse, well, that wouldn’t be friendship or marriage. It is bodily, O.K., but it is not part of a comprehensive sharing of life. My comprehensive sharing of life is with my wife, which I just now violated….”
Robert P. George, who, according to the New York Times, is considered a major brain for the conservative political movement and in particular is a darling of Catholic Bishops on issues of abortion, gay marriage, and contraception. Here he tries to explain the reasons why heterosexual people should be allowed to get married. His overly analytical approach only gets more silly and bizarre the more you read about it especially as it boils down to whether “coitus” is “procreative” or not. However, what is not silly in the least is that George is currently listed on the website of the National Organization for Marriage as Chairman of the Board. NOM is the main cohesive force behind the repeal of marriage equality in California and in Maine, and has also interfered recently in New York and New Jersey where legislators have frozen up and retracted their support for legal marriage for gay men and women. George is described in this lengthy NYT article as a native of Morgantown, WV who converted from Democrat to ultra-conservative, obsessing over the issues of abortion and sexual morality. (NYTimes)
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