Unfortunately, Rush is correct. Anyone who can’t see this fight is largely lost is just kidding themselves. Assuming the economy doesn’t implode or nothing else happens to freeze issues like this in place, in less than 10-20 years gay marriage will be normalized throughout most (if not all) of the country. We’ll be arguing over legalized polygamy and incest for consenting adults soon enough.
agreed. the culture war is lost. music and tv the weapon. ourselves to blame for not fighting hard enough. Anyone on freerepublic that watches glee, the new normal, or all those queer shows on abc share the responsibility for this end. Thats a fact jack.
I’m not so sure Rush is right about this. If the Sup Court does the right thing and rules that there is no Constitutional right to gay marriage, and that the issue should be handled by the states, then I think a lot of states would maintain traditional marriage laws for the foreseeable future. The only way gay marriage will be recognized in every state is if the Sup Court imposes it. Of course this brings up the even bigger issue of how the Court has usurped so much power, and why we as a nation have let them get away with it. It’s just perverse that a free, self-governing people ultimately have no direct say in the outcome, and instead must wait with baited breath to see which way Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts will vote.
But anyway, it would take a Roe-like activist decision from the Sup Court to get gay marriage recognized nationwide anytime soon. And that is why the Left will not stop seeking such a decision, even if they lose this time. At most it will be a 5-4 decision; how long after President Hillary replaces Scalia do you think it would take for the Left to get another marriage case before a new Sup Court?
So I’d agree with Rush if he’d said that Left will get their Sup Court imposition of gay marriage eventually. If not now it will comes a few years later.
Otherwise the only way I see upwards of half the states voluntarily enacting gay marriage is through economic coercion. I can easily see pressure being put on corporations to refuse to open new facilities in states ‘that hate.’ I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen that happen yet, but I guess they don’t need to worry about that until they see which way Kennedy goes.