Ben Shapiro Is Talking Nonsense About the Left Undermining Families
Ben Shapiro absurdly says that the Left supports gay marriage to undermine families and turn us into “atomized individuals.” The reality: leftists oppose social atomization, and we want all families to have the economic support they need.
Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro speak at Daily Wire Presents Backstage Live at Ryman Auditorium, on October 12, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Keith Griner / Getty Images)
With a bipartisan majority of sixty-two to thirty-five, the Senate voted this week to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex marriage from a judicial reversal like this summer’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion. In response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s hint that the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision invalidating state laws against same-sex marriage might be the next on the chopping block after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Respect for Marriage Act enshrines marriage equality into law.
And that has popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro fuming. He has insisted that no one who thinks marriage can be “redefined” to include gay couples belongs in the Republican Party, and framed support for equality as part of a left-wing agenda to undermine the family and reduce the citizenry to “atomized individuals” with no relationship to any social institution except for the state. In one particularly bizarre rhetorical flourish, Shapiro said that even Martians would oppose undermining marriage and family by letting gay couples in the club.
Social institutions are important. They shape you and connect you to society.
The Left has made government the ultimate social institution and has replaced marriage and family with atomistic individualism. Live a fuller life and get married. pic.twitter.com/Y1kLft5cFa
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 11, 2022
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