argument works, then i need another explanation as to why a smart and thoughtful person like maggie gallagher reaches the wrong conclusion on this issue. just as i imagine the you would want to know. you would need some explanation as to why, is on making bad and logical mistakes or is he missing something? perhaps it is oversimplifying it in terms of fear. but i do think that all this come of us come to the debate with certain blind spots. one of the things that i think is very valuable about your segment of the book is that i think you draw attention to something that people on my side often miss. which is that people on your side really want to preserve a special understanding of marriage and his mother father of you. that we may have moved away from that in society. in many ways we have moved away from not in our understanding of what a relationsrelations hip needs to be in order to qualify as a marriage. one of the reasons we have moved away from laws requiring confirmation and if it is contested later, we have moved away from it. so i am not a psychologist. i am a philosopher. as a phil

this week gay-rights advocate john corvina and conservative columnist maggie gallagher engage in a point counter point discussion of gay marriage. we conclude the prime time programming at 11:00 eastern with race baiting, arguing the media is populated by pundits who play on the fears and prejudices of their viewers to garner a larger audiences. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> the e election is over and the president has been reelected and the new congress has been sworn in and we have basically what we had before other than perfect with the $4 billion to have a president be reelected, the senate remain in one party and the house remain in the republicans's hands. we have effectively gridlock. we have variations on these new terms like sequester so last week in washington, the one that never came, the snowquester and the fiscal cliff we thought we would jump off a man die and now it is just related to the inability to find common ground on the budget. we are going from crisis to crisis and nothing in the election >> reporter: that. because our beloved

i know you feel like it's not maggie gallagher's job to answer that. >> host: i would say the second parent adoption is more significant and dangerous to rely urge for your parental rights and relationship. again, focusing on the welfare of the children. the i have concerns about deliberately creating children to be deprived of a mother father, which would've played to opposite might as well as same-sex couples. if you can replace a mother and father, unique to respect everyone who's trying to do it. so that's very short. we don't have a lot of time to go in to it. if i am right about marriage, it with a because wele's interestn all need it. if we believe america is a special place this allows you to build a life together, if we want that to projecting the future, we need to strengthen our marriage culture because we are headed for a fairly serious problem. society stuck behind britain and women together to make the next generation. what i've never been able to get you to say is how we will strengthen in the dispatcher of normative ideal, while simultaneously being always pushed to s

this week gay rights advocate john corvino and maggie gallagher engage in a point/counterpoint discussion of gay marriage. we conclude at 1 is p.m. eastern -- 11 p.m. eastern with eric deggins, whose book, "race baiter," will be the topic. visit booktv.org more more on this weekend's television schedule. >> next on booktv, viktor mayer-schonberger and kenneth cookier tube a new field of research that uses information to predict human behavior and events. this is a little over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's program at the commonwealth club of california, the place where you're in the know. i'm dr. missouri rah gunn, host of tech nation which airs on npr.org and also on the npr channels on xm sirius radio. i'm your moderator for the program this evening. tonight's program is being held in associate -- association with the commonwealth club's science-technology forum. find us on the internet at commonwealthclub.org or down lode our iphone and android apps for program and schedule information and podcasts of past programs. and now it is my pleasure to introduce today's distin