Conservative outlet Fox News has posted
a pro-gay marriage op-ed challenging the National Organization for
Marriage's (NOM) Brian Brown penned by journalist John Stossel.
Last month, Stossel challenged Brown,
the president of NOM, during a segment on his program Stossel,
which is broadcast on the Fox Business Network.
In
Friday's op-ed, titled A Libertarian's View of Gay Marriage,
he says he still doesn't understand Brown's arguments against gay
marriage.
“If they redefine marriage to include
gays, that doesn't diminish my marriage,” Stossel wrote. “And if
kids are taught that gay marriage is OK, so what?”
On the program, Brown argued:
“Deconstructing marriage is a very bad idea. We see the rising
rates of divorce and unwed motherhood. There is a direct
correlation. If you look at any social indicators – children
raised without mothers and fathers – you see higher rates of
incarceration, juvenile delinquency that cost the state money.”
“Sorry, but I still don't see what
divorce and unwed motherhood have to do with gay marriage. It's
mostly straight people who are doing the divorcing and unwed
mothering,” Stossel wrote.
And to Brown's comment that the state
“should support what is true and good and beautiful. And it's true
and good and beautiful that marriage is the union of a man and a
woman,” Stossel replied: “I definitely don't want the state to
decide what is good and beautiful.”