Good post.
The problem with Same Sex Marriage is it is it furthers the deconstruction of the family pushed by radical leftists/feminists. I know most young “conservatives” are often too lazy to even research what the goals of the radical left and radical homosexuals have been for the past several decades but their number one target has been the “patriarchy” as they call it. Also the norming of homosexuality makes it easy to extend the damage done with the advent of no fault sex (ie birth control) coupled with the rise of massive government services. They no very well that the ultimate intention is to make sexual orientation increasingly ambiguous and gender increasingly androgynous which is why we’ve seen the rise of the gender neutral classroom and the re-defining of maleness in the traditional sense as a disease (ADHD). Once gay marriage is achieved it will increasingly become a requirement that homosexuality as well as other forms of sexual orientations not just be taught but encouraged. Kids will be told that they should explore and experiment to find out what their “true” orientation is and that their fulfillment of that “true” orientation is essential to their mental health. If you don’t believe me research some of the crap that is being implemented in Blue states and even within some red states. Anyone who thinks that gay marriage is just about equal rights is in denial just as one who believes that homosexuality is primarily inborn.
Thomas Sowell put it best “Gay Marriage is the product of Sloppy Thinking”.
Here is the article if you desire to read it.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell032400.asp
The unfortunate thing is that this “sloppy thinking” has infected conservatism or rather mostly Progressive Republicanism masquerading as conservatism. The reason it has made it so far is through intimidation and silence of those who disagree but have been made to feel they have no right to express it.
Exactly. "Essentialism" draws for the intended audience (SCOTUS justices) a direct parallel (incorrect but direct) between the homosexual movement and the civil-rights cases of the 1950's and 1960's. Black skin is now supposed to be exactly analogous to sexual perversion.
Michelangelo Signorile, when it comes to marriage, laid it out in a benchmark essay in the Village Voice in, iirc, 1994, in which he explained that the political and moral function of SSM </cant, pls excuse the oxymoron> is not to establish anything, but to remove the moral authority of marriage and, in the long run, to destroy marriage as a heteronormalizing institution.
I mean by that, that marriage demonstrates the normality of heterosexual bonding and reproduction and contrariwise shines a pitiless light on the pointless copulations and cavortings of deviant sexuality.
Therefore Signorile and the rest of his hostile, sociopathic conspiracy undertook to "establish" SSM </cant> precisely to destroy marriage for the rest of us.