Another WTF? Moment (Updated, Updated Again)

This Op-Ed from Ross Douthat, who reveals himself to be an up-and-coming non-thinker on the right. It's a David Blankenhorn-type piece that boils down to "Hetersexual marriage is better because." I'm not going to bother to dissect it -- Glenn Greenwald did a fine job of that here.

TBogg, in his own inimitable way, summed it up pithily:

Shorter Ross Douthat:

I will concede the inevitability of gay marriage if we can all agree that a bland sterile heterosexual marriage like mine is, in the final tally, say, 3% more awesomer. Deal?

Tristero isn't quite so kind.

Update: I just ran across this from David Frum. It's even more incoherent than Douthat's piece. It's like, you should read this before brain surgery -- you won't feel a thing.

Update II: Amanda Marcotte is elegantly bitchy.