Bob Belvedere over at The Camp of the Saints beautifully elaborates on things Stacy has said:"As with Roe v. Wade, once the elite make up their minds about a subject, they go to court to impose their will on the rest of us, and then subject us to lectures about how benighted and backward we are for not sharing their enthusiasm for Progress." Stacy McCain
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Smitty is in agreement with a couple of libertarian homosexuals who favor getting the government out of the marriage business.
So is Cheeky Pink Girl in Sign Me Up for a Church Wedding.
Viewed From the Right disagrees with same-sex marriage in A rejoinder to The Classic Liberal
and (IMO) has some very good reasons.
The Blog Prof has a great video and voices his opinion (quite forcefully) in CNN Goes To Gay Bar In West Hollywood For Their ONLY Reaction To Prop 8 Ruling Overturning Gay Marriage Ban in CA
Matthew Archbold in We the People Means 9, weighs in and earns the second quote of the day award.
And last but certainly not least - from my legal beagle buddy in Spokane, Mark at Ordered Liberty, comes Perry v. Schwarzenegger and the confusion of rights with desires . A most excellent post with some outstanding links."Secularists are winning the culture war because for too long those upholding traditional values didn’t understand the field on which the culture war was taking place. For too long we thought it was simply a battle for the hearts and souls of our fellow Americans. We didn’t know the people had nothing to do with it. When we figured that out we then moved towards politics until we found out that the Senate and the House isn’t where the real power resides either. Then and only then did we discover that the only reason politicians matter is so they can nominate or block judges who actually make the decisions."
And what do I think?
I think this will end up at the Supreme Court. I'm thinking the Supremes will uphold the over-turning of Prop 8, which really means Kennedy, as Mark points out.
None of this is really about "marriage", but about a small minority of people wishing to impose their beliefs on the majority. Being able to get "married" is not the goal here. Homosexuals don't want tolerance or equality. They want you to not only accept their choice of sexual activities, but to approve and even consider a man having sex with a man (with all that entails), and a woman with a woman as normal. It's not and it never will be normal.
Within 10 years or less of this passing, the entire social structure will be even more tilted than it already is. If the state guarantees homosexual marriage as a "right", it will open the floodgates to all sorts of open indoctrination in the schools, churches, and the work place. Homosexual adoption and artificial insemination will be the norm. We can expect the courts to be clogged with same-sex couples fighting over their little designer babies when the union goes belly-up. If over 50% of heterosexual marriages end in divorce, we can certainly not expect "homosexual marriage" to be an improvement.
The state has traditionally protected and encouraged marriage and the family because it's for the good of society. However, when they began rewarding women for having children out of wedlock by throwing money at them, and then coming up with the concept of "no-fault divorce", it has wreaked havoc on our society. Single mothers are, in most cases, the poor that the rest of us have to support. Women and men are cast aside like used Kleenex just because a partner is having a mid-life crisis. Unlike the former wife of Tiger Woods, most of these women will live in reduced circumstances - many to the point of poverty. Boys are raised without fathers to teach them the proper meaning of being a man. And don't even get me started on raising a little girl without a strong father figure to teach her how she should expect to be treated by a real man.
Is there any chance our society will once again embrace our former strong standards of morality? Sure. As soon as we have a huge, ugly crisis. And, trust me (said the spider to the fly), this crisis is coming sooner than we may think, and it will be unimaginably horrible.
So - that's what I think.
A really cool idea!
Head over to Reaganite Republican. He came up with the best ever idea. He did 'point" and Michael at Jumping in Pools did the counterpoint. Maybe I could talk RR into doing one with moi.
