Posted on 07/01/2015 5:40:03 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
I loved reading the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books to my daughter.
The somewhat Aesopian theme is that if you give the mouse what it wants – a cookie – it will just want more: a glass of milk, a straw, etc.
The story came to mind last week, a week that began with many vowing to inter the Confederate flag and that ended with the Supreme Court mandating that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. As far as culture-war victories go, the flag news was big, but the marriage ruling was tantamount to VE Day.
It might be too much to think that progressive activists and intellectuals would demobilize after such a “Mission Accomplished” moment. But a reasonable person might expect social-justice warriors to at least take the weekend off to celebrate.
But no. Even when the cookie is this big, the mice want something more. The call went out that there were new citadels to conquer. Within hours of the decision, Politico ran a call to arms titled “It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy: Why Group Marriage Is the Next Horizon of Social Liberalism.” On Sunday, Time magazine had Mark Oppenheimer’s “Now’s the Time to End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions.”
Earlier in the week, as corporations and politicians were racing one another to shove the Confederate flag down the memory hole, a co-host asked CNN’s Don Lemon whether the Jefferson Memorial should be removed from the National Mall because the former president owned slaves. He said no, but that “there may come a day when we want to rethink Jefferson.”
Within hours of the same sex-marriage ruling, the White House was beaming the gay-pride rainbow flag on its facade. This is the White House whose current occupant campaigned in 2008 passionately insisting that his religious faith required him to oppose gay marriage. The president and his party now consider that position to be unalloyed bigotry.
Many of us always believed Barack Obama was lying about his opposition to gay marriage – a belief corroborated when his former guru, David Axelrod, wrote in his memoir that he’d advised his client to conceal his personal view for political expediency.
It is something of a secular piety to bemoan political polarization in this nation. But polarization in and of itself shouldn’t be a problem in a democracy. The whole point of having a democratic republic, never mind the Bill of Rights, is to give people the right to disagree.
A deeper and more poisonous problem is the breakdown in trust. Again and again, progressives insist that their goals are reasonable and limited. Proponents of gay marriage insisted that they merely wanted the same rights to marry as everyone else. They mocked, scorned, and belittled anyone who suggested that polygamy would be next on their agenda. Until they started winning. In 2013, a headline in Slate declared “Legalize Polygamy!” and a writer at the Economist editorialized, “And now on to polygamy.” The Atlantic ran a fawning piece on Diana Adams and her quest for a polyamorous “alternative to marriage.”
We were also told that the fight for marriage equality had nothing to do with a larger war against organized religion and religious freedom. But we now know that was a lie, too. The ACLU has reversed its position on religious-freedom laws, in line with the Left’s scorched-earth attacks on religious institutions and private businesses that won’t – or can’t – embrace the secular fatwa that everyone must celebrate “love” as defined by the Left.
I very much doubt we’ll get a constitutional right for teams of people to get “married,” but I have every confidence the drumbeat will grow louder. Social justice – forever ill-defined so as to maximize the power of its champions – has become not just an industry but also a permanent psychological orientation among journalists, lawyers, educators, and other members of the new class of eternal reformers.
By no means are social-justice warriors always wrong. But they are untrustworthy, because they aren’t driven by a philosophy so much as an insatiable appetite that cannot take yes for an answer. No cookie will ever satisfy them. Our politics will only get uglier, as those who resist this agenda realize that compromise is just another word for appeasement.
HEHE....perfect.
And no, we’re “not in Kansas anymore” - and I don’t think we’ll ever be there again.
http://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/88/
Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage
David L. Chambers, University of Michigan Law School
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
In the American federal system, state governments bear the responsibility for enacting the laws that define the persons who are permitted to marry. The federal government, throughout our history, has accepted these definitions and built upon them, fixing legal consequences for those who validly marry under state law. Only twice in American history has Congress intervened to reject the determinations that states might make about who can marry. The first occasion was in the late nineteenth century when Congress enacted a series of statutes aimed at the Mormon Church, prohibiting polygamy in the Western territories and punishing the Church and those within it who entered into polygamous marriages. The more recent occasion was just last year. In the summer of 1996, Congress adopted the Defense of Marriage Act, which provides that, regardless of state laws, all acts of Congress referring to married persons shall be read as applying only to persons married to a person of the opposite sex.
Recommended Citation
Chambers, David L. “Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage.” Hofstra L. Rev. 26, no. 1 (1997): 53-83.
Don’t forget that the Second Amendment is on the hit list too.
The left has declared “war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt”. They are playing the “Deguello”
Also reminds me of The Fisherman and His Wife/ Grimms Fairy Tales. First the wife wants a little cottage, then a mansion, then she wants to be Pope (!), THEN she wants to make the sun rise and set — and she ends up back in their little hovel.
The rather twisted stop-action show Robot Chicken, part of “Adult Swim”, had a bizarre take on ‘If you give a mouse a cookie’. About 1 minute.
I will call this NSFW. Those guys are strange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN4DYytjyw
It makes no sense for him to say this. It directly contradicts all the facts in his column. Denial much, Jonah?
I have had to boot so many SJWs off my social media in the last week due to the daily constant parade of this foolishness.
That was my thought exactly. How could he come to that conclusion?
too soon for that...
polygamy then the age of consent.
need the numbers of perversions to increase in order to guarantee votes for pedophilia.
The commies in the American Psychiatric Associations will have de-list pedophillia as a mental illness, too.
I am sure we will see that within 4-5 years.
The Little Red Hen comes to mind too.
Not only do they want it all; they want it for free.
To bury, entomb???
Regards,
Perhaps Jonah should have read his own article. These people are never, ever satisfied. And, the SCOTUS has shown that it is part of the cultural revolution, and cares not a bit about the Constitution or words and their actual meaning.
Group marriages will happen. Once marriage has been redefined, and it has, it will be allowed to be redefined again and again. If one special interest group gets to redefine it, you cannot prevent another group from redefining it to fit their agenda.
Magical thinking. “Even though the most ‘extreme’ speculations from four years ago have now come to pass, it will stop here.” Because ... you know, just because.
But they will not give up. They will not stop trying until the American public is forced to watch and applaud homosexual exhibitions.
The sad thing is that many Americans are perfectly fine with that prospect. Or so they say. Hopefully, there is some sort of national gag reflex that will kick in before homosexual exhibitions totally flood the national scene.
An awful lot can be done by homosexuals because most people aren’t paying any attention to anything but what is shown in national broadcast media: commercials with smiling couples and happy children, rainbow flags, a few flouncing drag queens just for color ...
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