Prop 8 Must Stand!

Blog ^ | 01/13/10 | Beau Douglas Weider

[Bodie Weider]

Posted by Beau Douglas Weider at 06:11 PM on January 13, 2010

I know, I know... it's unfair and it denies 'equal' rights, but sometimes having special rights can cause a society harm.

Ted Olson put forward a compelling, but ultimately specious case for removing a popular statute to protect the sanctity of marriage and the cornerstone of society.

I'm reminded of a scene from 'The Incredibles'; where the villian wants to give everybody super-powers and says; “When everyone is special, no one will be”.

Marriage is special. The men and women who marry are celebrating a God-given and ordained bond between a man and a woman that transcends friendship or sex. Anyone can have sex; both gays and straights do. Anyone can have friends; I have friends, my gay friends have friends.

Not just anyone can truly have the sacred bond of marriage.

So what will happen? When everyone can get married, then it becomes 'just another thing to do'. No more serious than friendship, no more committed than sex... just, "Hey... feel like having pizza tonight or do you want to go get married?"

"Nah, we did that last week."

If Prop 8 falls because of Judges legislating immorality from the bench, we will be in for a major decline in traditional marriage. I lost my marriage over it. I'm not the first, and the way things are going; I won't be the last.

[cvq3842]

At the risk of being indelicate, one could well say that a law on the books changing the definition of marriage will be as successful in making the “union” between two men, or two women, into a marriage as a law declaring a gay person’s genitals to be the genitals of the opposite sex would be.

Is marriage only a person’s genitals? No. But it’s comprised of a man and a woman, and I’m using the biological point to illustrate something that, until very recently, was perfectly understood by everyone.

[ivyleaguebrat]

Honest advocates for same-sex marriage must realize they are pushing for a radical departure from tradition.

The trouble is that, from their point of view, the history of marriage has already been punctuated by many radical departures from tradition. So one more couldn’t possibly hurt. That is the line of argument being unfolded by Olson and Boies in this case.

I have been following this trial closely, mostly out of legal curiosity. (I am planning to attend law school and have a strong interest in constitutional law).

I believe this case will go all the way to SCOTUS, and that there’s at least a 25% chance its decision will make gay marriage the law of the land in all 50 States. It will likely all hang on Justice Kennedy.

For that reason, I’m a little surprised by the way FReepers have seemed to dismiss this as a sideshow.

[cvq3842]

Thanks for message. I haven’t been on here enough to know whether people have been dismissive. But I do think that the judge has already made up his mind in this case, and that it will go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Again, it sounds like this trial is making “findings of fact” more suited to a legislature.