Monday - July 10, 2006
Married Without Children
Rick McKee - The Augusta Chronicle (GA)
As you may know by now, the high courts in both New York and Georgia produced a major setback to the homosexual quest for “gay marriage” laws in those states. Both courts said that marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. Always has been, always will be. To me that is just common sense and the only real surprise is that the liberals in New York feel the same way as the conservatives in Georgia. Now there’s an odd couple.
I really think it’s time to put this silliness behind us. If homosexuals want to live together, I could care less. What they do is their business. I think it’s abnormal but that’s just my opinion. However you may stand on the issue of homosexuality, it’s important to remember that what’s going on here has nothing to do with discrimination or a violation of anyone’s “civil rights” - which is how the Left tries to paint it. Obfuscation by any other name would still smell as bad.
This becomes evident when you actually listen to the homosexual arguments for “gay marriage”. The editorial below from the Los Angeles Times (where else?) is a case in point. I came across it while researching this story and, try as hard as I can, I just cannot seem to come to grips with the thinking behind the author’s obvious anger.
How on Earth can anyone refer to rulings like this as moving “in the opposite direction of history and justice”, “adding insult to injury”, “odiously racist” and “challenge to heterosexual monopoly”? That last one makes my brain hurt. Even worse is the last paragraph where racism is brought into the argument in a comparison to this decision that defies reason. Homosexuals playing the race card? You have to be really desparate to prove your point when you get that far out in left field.
The final argument below about “someday we’ll look back on the anti-gay-marriage hysteria with the same revulsion” is almost too much to bear. What our writer out in California fails to realize is that it’s not “hysteria” ... it’s hysterical. The attitude and arguments presented below are merely laughable, to say the least.
Setback For Marriage Justice
(LOS ANGELES TIMES) - July 10, 2006
The highest courts of New York and Georgia last week moved in the opposite direction of history and justice on same-sex marriage. By a 4-2 vote, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state Legislature’s limitation of marriage to heterosexual couples was a “long-accepted restriction” not based solely on “ignorance and prejudice against homosexuals.”
Adding insult to injury, an opinion signed by three of the judges in the majority ruled that it was rational for the Legislature to ban same-sex marriage in the interests of protecting children. Noting that “an important function of marriage is to create more stability and permanence in the relationships that cause children to be born,” Judge Robert S. Smith wrote that the state could “offer an inducement — in the form of marriage and its attendant benefits — to opposite-sex couples who make a solemn, long-term commitment to each other.” Never mind that childless heterosexual couples also receive legal benefits from civil marriage — or that many gay couples are raising children.
The Georgia Supreme Court decision, also handed down Thursday, was narrower but still disappointing. The court rejected technical objections to a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that was approved by state voters in 2004. Neither of these decisions is binding on the courts of other states, any more than was the famous 2003 ruling by Massachusetts’ high court that gay marriage couldn’t be prohibited. So there’s still hope that California’s Supreme Court will take a more enlightened view of the issue when it next hears a challenge to heterosexual monopoly on civil marriage. Advocates of same-sex marriage have turned to the state courts since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ill-advised veto of a same-sex-marriage bill last year, but hopefully the Legislature will keep trying.
Gay-rights activists shouldn’t underestimate the challenge ahead. In Georgia, the ban on same-sex marriages upheld last week passed with 76% of the vote. Meanwhile, even politicians who support gay rights consider it political suicide to mention the M-word. And conservatives continue to score points with the fallacious argument that legalizing same-sex marriage would make heterosexual marriage less attractive or, even more absurdly, damage the religious sacrament of matrimony. It took the Supreme Court until 1967 — 1967! — to strike down odiously racist anti-miscegenation laws. Someday we’ll look back on the anti-gay-marriage hysteria with the same revulsion. Until then, with a high court seemingly disinclined to address marriage, states such as California should take the lead.
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