Gay marriage is a reflection of the sterility of marriage generally

The competitive pressure on wage costs is driving down the social unit of subsistence, beyond the point of reproduction, to the single person household.  It ishas long been accepted that society is becoming increasingly atomised. Largely brought about by the mobilisation of the female labour force, permitting a social unit of subsistence of one across the genders, the single person household is on the rise as the institution of marriage declines. In the wake of the social atomisation comes a loosening of the ethical, moral and legal pressures for marriage.  Beingof no economic benefit, marriage, even co-habitation, are being discarded, as the love relationship is destined to be looked back upon as a quaint custom from a by-gone age.  Sexual relationships are commodity relationships (perhaps always so under capitalism, but now overtly so), as sexual gratification, through pornography, ‘classified ad’ prostitution and meet-for-sex websites, leaves the back street for the high street, shopping mall and the internet. Yes, we are all commodities now, dispatched to where needed most in the economy.  In as much as we are all commodities, then we are all equal.  It is an equality based on the free exchange of equal values, i.e. very much a liberal capitalist equality. Read More at Staff and Scrip.