I wrote it last Sunday and post it here today, as it appears that what the newspaper will publish in response has now been published.
November 8
To the editor:
Katherine Kersten rides back into town with gay marriage in the crosshairs of her intelligence (Opinion, November 8). But not even she seems to believe the argument she tries to advance. And no wonder!
The sorry state of marriage, she says, is "the result of divorce, cohabitation and rising out-of-wedlock births." Since none of that can be laid at the feet of homosexuals, the line of reasoning ends with a whimper: gay marriage would "likely" make it even worse.
Having established that gay marriage, if permitted, will be the cause of things that have already happened, Kersten found she had filled only half the space the Star Tribune turns over to her each Sunday. This problem she appears to have solved by channeling Michele Bachmann for a few paragraphs.
I'll write Kersten's columns for half of whatever you pay her. The hard part of writing is making sense.
--Eric Jorgenson
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