Don't miss IGF contributor Dale Carpenter's critique of David Blankenhorn, over at the indispensable Volokh.com. Says Dale:
Blankenhorn’s book is unusually well-written. And intellectual guilt-by-association has an easy appeal that may make his argument that these bad things all "go together" an anti-gay marriage mantra in the future. Like [Stanley] Kurtz’s superficially frightening correlations, now largely ignored on both sides of the debate, Blankenhorn's argument has to be carefully unpacked to show how unsatisfying it is.
Dale's unpacking is masterly. And Blankenhorn's book, which I just finished, is the best piece of work that the anti-gay-marriage side has yet produced, containing much to admire despite its flaws. If nothing else, the Dale-David exchange shows how far the gay-marriage debate has come since the hysteria of only a few years ago.