I will never understand how same-sex marriage belongs in the courts in the place.
If Ted Olson and others believe that we should change our marriage laws and social policies to include same-sex couples, they can believe that. I wish they would be intellectually honest enough to admit that everyone is treated equally under current marriage law, and that judges have to change the definition of marriage in order to accomplish what they want to see happen through the courts.
But there is not intellectual honesty on the left, so, the left decides that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue, then the courts get involved. Then gay groups don’t even have to lobby legislatures to change marriage laws. They just find a judge to declare something unconstitutional, and viola, we have new laws without them having to work to change the law.
I wonder how homosexual marriage became a liberal cause. If you review the 1996 congressional vote on the Defense of Marriage Act, you will see that it passed with over 80% support. And, you will see that many liberals voted for it.
It’s amazing to me that 20 years ago, marriage was about the least controversial issue in America. Nobody seriously questioned how it is defined or who the partners are. Now a beauty pagent contestant or anyone can be severely criticized in the MSM and by the left for thinking that marriage should be a man and a woman.
And why does Barack Obama get away with saying he believes marriage is a man and a woman? Why do some liberals even today get a pass from the radicals who want to institutionalize same-sex marriage?
I will never understand how anybody looks to government instead of God to bless and sanctify Holy matrimony. Ted Olsen is a very good man and is right on in his Constitutional argument.
To invoke Barbara's name to attack him is beyond the pale. There should have been a barf alert.
Government does not have to sell fishing licenses, but if it decides to do so, it may not discriminate on an impermissible basis. When homosexuality, adult consensual sodomy , adultery, and bastardy were decriminalized, government no longer has any pretense of a legitimate role in domestic contracts.