Krauthammer: "Pagans and polygamy"

I'm not sure what to make of Charles Krauthammer's latest column. Analyzing the decline of heterosexual marriage vis-a-vis gay marriage and polygamy, he sounds more wistful than wrathful :

I'm not one of those who see gay marriage or polygamy as a threat to, or assault on, traditional marriage. The assault came from within. Marriage has needed no help in managing its own long, slow suicide, thank you. Astronomical rates of divorce and of single parenthood (the deliberate creation of fatherless families) existed before there was a single gay marriage or any talk of sanctioning polygamy. The minting of these new forms of marriage is a symptom of our culture's contemporary radical individualism – as is the decline of traditional marriage – and not its cause.

At least in viewing the gay-marriage as a tectonic shift in society rather than evidence of moral decline, his hand-wringing doesn't have the hectoring quality of most social conservatives.