Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Marriage Proposal   [Maggie Gallagher]

Deroy Murdock wants to know why I (among other "socio-cons") haven't spoken out about a famous website devoted to arranging adulterous affairs: "But as outspoken as these and other social conservatives are about Allen and Steve's clear and present danger to Adam and Eve, they have held their peace about an enterprise that profits from adultery."

The answer is: I went to the website and looked at how it brags about all the TV publicity it gets. I realized that they consider publicity part of their business model. So, I declined to help pad their profits by useless denunciations. Instead I poured my energy (with other "socio-cons") into something I could actually affect: like giving the people of California a chance to respond to an activist supreme court that tried to redefine marriage.

About that website, here's what I would like to do: Revive the old alienation-of-affections tort as a new "tort of adultery" directed at third parties who actively encourage and facilitate adultery. (We could limit it to "commercial enterprises.") Then let the cuckolded husbands and abandoned wives, and children of divorce, recover some of that website's profits. 

Deroy, you with me on that? Let's start a movement.

03/10 09:34 AMShare