I have no idea why you reference divorce rates, or how that correlates to what I was trying to convey. If you were trying to say that divorce is more detrimental to soceity than homosexual unions, then I think that makes sense, but other than that, divorce rates are irrelevant. As a sidebar, since you pointed it out, divorce rates in the church run roughly the same as divorce rates in secular society. It has always been thus. But, unless you are trying to indict Christian society or make some broader point about possible church hypocrisy, I fail to see the relation to my post.
Additionally, I didn't cite Tocqueville for the fun of it. I reference him because he has an acute understanding about the nature of American society, which I was contrasting with European sentiments. I do not understand which passages you refer to in Plato or Aristotle, or what relevance they have to the discussion.
Well, of course law is based upon reason. Whoever said it wasn't? And it is exactly Reason that has created legal tradition. Now, other factors go into it as well, but your attempt to seperate legal tradition from "reason", which by what you must mean is contemporary thought, is nonsensical. Otherwise, one would have to stick his digits into the wind to chart a legal course. I am sure you would prefer thumbing through old English property law books instead.
