Posted on 02/19/2004 6:37:28 PM PST by ParsifalCA
[Streetsweeper] 7:45 am On the Western Front: We watch another battle over gay marriage erupt, now in San Francisco. So, some see it as ghastly and illegal, some as annoying and dismiss it and others see it as a light hearted party for the this poor victim class who just want what everyone has, equality.
But that’s not what’s going on. Mayor Gavin Newsom is not simply authorizing worthless marriage licenses as a memento for these couples. On a strategic level, each one of those pieces of paper represents a lawsuit. When either the Attorney General does his job and stops the gambit (which he’s unlikely to do because a Democrat who has his eye set on being elected Governor can’t afford to get the gay bloc or liberal sympathizers mad at him) or when a judge orders it stopped - the lawsuits will start. By that time there will be maybe 5,000 or so opportunities to file suit. And very likely when it gets enjoined in San Francisco another city will jump in to take its place. Maybe Oakland or Santa Cruz or maybe even LA because Jim Hahn might start to daydream of the lovely liberal accolades Newsom is going to get and, of course, Hahn’s going to want it too... Could become a rolling wave of civil disobedience – a civil rights struggle - instantly moving into the courts with a flood of lawsuits all based on the foundation of “equal protection.”
Now that Massachusetts is a fierce legal battleground on the Eastern Front it’s time to ignite a court battle on the Western Front. Instability, distraction and visibility.
Will either of these battles succeed? Maybe yes, maybe no. Will the process for a countering federal constitutional amendment start plodding its way to the states? Could be.
But winning battles is not the point. Winning the war is... These high profile and newsworthy legal tactics raise the issue of mainstreaming homosexuality to a new level. Just to stem this clamor for gay marriage, lawmakers and voters will fall all over themselves to agree to strong civil unions, adoptions, mandating more “acceptance” in school curricula and eventually some form of punishment to those who dare call it wrong.
When Governor Schwarzenegger finally speaks out on this, do we suppose he’ll condemn this civil disobedience? It’s more likely that he’ll be sympathetic (Maria can be very persuasive) and be the one to propose with Mark Leno even more dramatic legislation that strengthens California’s current laws so that homosexual rights are indistinguishable from marriage and add even more depth to homosexuals as a protected class. Just to be a “good guy” the Governor might even back off his previous support for Prop 22. And surely Attorney General Lockyer and his staff will study hard on on the issue and find a major conflict between Prop 22 and the California constitution. And then there are the judges – the ruling class.
Sure the voters spoke with Prop 22, but so what? Liberal elites don’t care what the voters want. It’s much more important for liberal strategy to divide, divide and divide again to gain more control and remake this country into their own image – ah, yes, “can’t we be more like Canada?” Well, we certainly can. Vermont, Massachusetts and now California are leading the way.
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