Why has the left chosen this hill to fight on?
It's a major step in their ultimate goal. First they mainstream butt sex, then they lower the age of consent, and viola! They get to screw little boys.
“Why has the left chosen this hill to fight on?”
Because the right has chosen it. Or more succinctly, chosen to _lose_ it.
I am against homosexual marriage, and my attitudes will not change on the subject. It should not be permitted, and if I had my way, it would not be.
But the core of conservatism (in my view) is the ability to see things as they are, and having seen reality, to understand it and proceed in reasoned and logical ways.
For conservatives, the writing is on the wall insofar as homosexual marriage is concerned. We failed to engage the issue totally, when it was still within our power to seize control of the public mood and do something about it. Ten years ago or so (just after the court decision in Massachusetts that legalized gay marriage), it might have been possible to enact a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman (I believe I was the first person in this forum to propose such an idea). Republicans at the time, as they are wont to do, ran away from that possibility when they had the advantage, and “compromised” on The Defense of Marriage Act (which has reached the point where it is all-but unenforceable and in time may be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court).
Now such a Constitutional amendment is politically impossible, and the leftist schools and media have had more than a decade to “condition” the sheeple and more importantly, the young.
The left is going to win on this one. All one needs to do is look at the opinions of the young — even a third of young self-declared Republicans — to surmise this reality.
I don’t like it any more than you do.
But that’s the way I see it.