Posted on 08/19/2010 6:18:04 AM PDT by throwback
Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California's Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California's constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.
My involvement in this case has generated a certain degree of consternation among conservatives. How could a politically active, lifelong Republican, a veteran of the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, challenge the "traditional" definition of marriage and press for an "activist" interpretation of the Constitution to create another "new" constitutional right?
My answer to this seeming conundrum rests on a lifetime of exposure to persons of different backgrounds, histories, viewpoints, and intrinsic characteristics, and on my rejection of what I see as superficially appealing but ultimately false perceptions about our Constitution and its protection of equality and fundamental rights.
Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. This does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize. Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create a loving household and a social and economic partnership. We encourage couples to marry because the commitments they make to one another provide benefits not only to themselves but also to their families and communities. Marriage requires thinking beyond one's own needs. It transforms two individuals into a union based on shared aspirations, and in doing so establishes a formal investment in the well-being of society. The fact that individuals who happen to be gay want to share in this vital social institution is evidence that conservative ideals enjoy widespread acceptance. Conservatives should celebrate this, rather than lament it.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I think that’s part of what this thread is about; society’s continuing downward movement. Are you suggesting that we throw in the towel?
There is no conservative case for homosexual marriage, nor can there ever be.
I saw the words Newsweek and Ted Olson and didn’t read any further. However, I’m pretty sure Barbara Olson wouldn’t have condoned such usurping of the American voters by a judicial effort and an openly gay judge at that.
Maybe Ted has a new boyfriend...
I equally and strongly believe that it is predetermined (as does Olson)
Your strongly held belief is based on belief only and has no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Homosexuals have been trying to find hard evidence but have failed to so do.
OTOH, there are countless numbers of former homosexuals. If they were born “gay”, they could not change. But many have.
Yet another weak, pathetic homosexual agenda talking point lie.
I would guess that quote is going to get a lot of use in the near future.
-At this rate, Sparta which utilized homosexuality actively may well outlive the United States...sorry to say.
What??? The Spartan society which “utilizied homosexuality actively” is still functioning?
You are really out of your mind.
Oh please. The courts just struck down Prop 8. And gays are winning with special hate crime laws that afford them special protection that lifts them above average citizens.
I notice he didn't specify which religion, I wonder why?
You gonna agree with Obama and tell us that muslims built America?
Everything that poster has said has been “victimish” and over the top.
Yep. There’s an agenda!
Barbara Olsen must be spinning...
Ted should know better than this.
Ann is exactly right.
Congratulations! Forty years! That’s wonderful. :)
I advocate neither mosques or fairs. I advocate simply for the true rights of man.
Yeah, the rights of Muslims to celebrate their massacre of large numbers of infidels with a victory mosque on the place of massacre, and the rights of mentally ill sexual perverts to attempt to change Natural Law.
What a conservative you are! /puke
I have posted it everyday.
zot
That’s a great quote. Do you have a source? I’m going to add it to my collection.
Only six that I know of have been banned. More need to. When one gets banned, the others shut up for a while, at least on that specific thread.
This thread needs a big fat ZOT.
Thank you.
Marriage is based on the laws of nature which are immutable. Way before any church doctrines.
Man, woman, babies - natural law.
Two men, anuses, or two women, licking, implements - etc - unnatural!
Sheesh, use your brain!
Ted Olson has actually come out for the Victory Mosque?
Yikes!
The same Ted Olson whose wife Barbara died aboard one of the hijacked planes on 9-11.
I just can’t believe it.
Another homosexual agenda pushing troll.
See my comment right above.
It’s about natural law, think about it. Way above and beyond any religious doctrine.
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