EQUAL RIGHTS?????? Any man and any woman, not already married to a member of the opposite sex, are EQUALLY entitled to marry a member of the OPPOSITE sex. The inherently disordered and perverted desire of one lavender in heat for another carried out by putting things where they do not belong and by nefarious whoring after societal approval of lavender canoodling, is no reason for language abuse. Marriage is an exclusive heterosexual relationship between two people, one male and one female. Government did NOT institute marriage.
If we have reached the point where that is not judicially enforceable, we have reached the point where we need a new constitution and one which will pre-empt the states' respective authorities and laws, in favor of traditional Judaeo-Christian morality, on such questions as to the nature of marriage, and the right to life from the moment of conception to natural death. Would this impose morality? You bet it would and it is about time.
Meanwhile, let's see ballot initiatives on wedge issues designed to intimidate these libertinarian courts once and for all. If they want to overturn referenda and initiatives, let's party. It will ease the task of pulling the malicious and impious fangs of the judiciary in Massachusetts and elsewhere, to say nothing of breaking the impudent back of such courts. If it is necessary to stripmine normal attitudes of normal members of the public early on to prevent the customary societal softening by relentless leftist propaganda, so be it.
Make this the central wedge issue of the 2004 elections and it will be a landmark election returning record numbers of civilized legislators, prepared to enforce morality in this minimal way, and the landslide destruction of Kerry who will spend the entire campaign tripping over his feet defending lavender canoodling to Democrats of modest means who go to church.