ABSTRACT
Some may be surprised to hear this. After all, is not America really a nation of individuals and individualism, of lifestyle experimentation, of moral innovation, with family matters of secondary and fading public importance? Or as contemporary voices ask, does not American democracy stand for the steady expansion of individual rights-including “the right to marry”—to ever more categories of people? As Nathan Glazer explains in his recent book, We Are All Multiculturalists Now: “If progress is the spread of equality and liberty, one does not see how any good arguments can be made against gay and lesbian claims.”1
