From Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/same-sex-marriage-makes-david-brooks-crazy-20130402
Matt Taibbi
Tuesday April 2, 2013
This morning’s David Brooks column on same-sex marriage was one of the weirdest, most mean-spirited things I’ve ever seen in The New York Times.
Entitled “Freedom Loses One,” the article is a sarcastic broadside against . . . well, against something, though it’s not clear exactly which of the many post-Sixties permissive-society hobgoblins Brooks hates is the real target here.
Ostensibly, the column purports to make a single ironic point, which is that by petitioning the Supreme Court for the right to marry, gays and lesbians were not expanding their freedoms – and thus continuing, as Brooks implies, a long and perhaps-regrettable winning streak for people’s right to “follow their desires” that dates back to those hated Sixties – but rather constraining them. Brooks puts it this way:
But last week saw a setback for the forces of maximum freedom. A representative of millions of gays and lesbians went to the Supreme Court and asked the court to help put limits on their own freedom of choice. They asked for marriage.
Brooks here apparently expects his gay and lesbian readers to scratch their heads here and think, “Gosh, what does he mean by that? I thought we were seeking new freedoms with this campaign?”
What does he mean? Well, the self-appointed hetero-in-chief is here to enlighten us as to what marriage is – and he’s here to tell you, it’s no bowl of freedom-cherries!
