[longtermmemmory]

The marriage license is just a tool for recording marriages. Marriage is a public act. This is important for property rights and inheritance. Marriage is about producing a family not just for the presnet but for future generations beyond the life of the married couple.

It is a simple issue of whether or not you want a society or a mob of animals having sex with whatever is not moving. If you want to sit passivly while the homosexuals disassemble the family unit that is your perrogitive.

Marriage has always been about children and family. Under old common law, an out of wedlock child did not have a claim to family property.

You sarcasm is amusing if not misguided.

[livius]

This is all from Griswold. The mysterious "right to privacy" now has been interpreted to mean that laws and the legal structure essentially have no claim on us.

The dangerous thing in this case is that an elected official and his bureaucrats have taken it one step further and wilfully ignored the law in order to assert their private preference.

I translate a lot of legal analyses and texts, and one thing other countries have always admired about us is our rule of law, and the fact that when people object to a law, they take legal steps to overturn it. This may be by going to court, or by getting enough people together to request the legislature to create a new law.

But only in banana republics is it done by fiat or by flat-out ignoring the existing law.