We conservatives have got to learn that you cannot win the culture war in the courts, we must win the culture war in the culture.
Most conservatives will understand the culture trumps politics but they are unwilling to recognize that culture trumps law. Nothing could be clearer than the civil rights movement leading to the civil rights laws and going beyond excess with affirmative action movements. The law has proved an ungainly instrument to restrain the culture when it comes to affirmative action and it was only following the tide in enforcing civil rights.
Likewise we see conservatives balking at the legalization of pot. They expect the law to restrain the impulse of the culture. The law held back the legalization of pot until the dam simply broke.
We conservatives understand what the fight over sodomite marriage is all about, it is about defending the institution of marriage against the assault originating with The Frankfurt School which seeks to undermine the family unit as the atomic building block of a civil society so that it can sweep in and impose its vision on a defenseless culture. The problem with attempting to use the law to retard homosexual marriage is that we lost the war in the culture. It does no good to cite polls, rapidly going out of date, which show a plurality of the people opposing homosexual marriage, the point is the movers and shakers of the culture have won among the elites and the deciders.
The author himself understands this reality when he says:
"As for the continuing kangaroo courtrooms overseeing and facilitating the destruction of marriage via judicial fiat, I fully expect that additional reality-denying judges will call up down, black white and evil good. They’ll declare a “constitutional right” to sodomy-based marriage.
It’s all the rage right now."
Yes, it is all the rage right now and it is hopeless to try to win generation long cultural wars from the top down. It is unrealistic to expect judges of mixed politics to do what conservatives themselves will not do: fight and win the culture wars in the culture.
You are dead on in your analysis. As a prime example, look at the following YouTube video with nearly 600 million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic
(wait until after the advertisement, watch it and your main point is made starting about time 3:06 to the end; actually the entire video sets the background for what unfolds near its end at 3:06)
Your point is completely illustrated in this popular culture video with nearly 600,000,000 views.
I admit I like the tune, the energy and the story until time 3:06. It captures the attractiveness of youth, the human mating behavioral patterns among youth, the sexual attraction, the innocence of an era in our lives and then at the very end the surprising but not shocking injection of homosexuality via a comedy of irony.
Comedy is often used to disarm people to the dangers of homosexuality. We are led by enchantment to laugh and then the homosexual themes are injected into the mix reinforcing the notion that homosexuality is ‘gay’ when in fact it is not at all gay which is defined to describe a lighthearted joyful near frivolous subject.
Yes, the culture and its setting are the true battleground.
But do not discourage fighting this perversity using the First Amendment in the Courts because people are inclined to fight such perversity head on. Do not discourage Marriage Amendment movements. The war must be waged in ALL ARENAS, the Constitution, the Courts and the Popular Culture.
Consider this: if tactics were considered to fight this not in the courts but in the cultural arena, what tactics, what themes would be chosen?
There are at least two tactical approaches to consider:
One is to ignore the perversion process and compete with a healthy natural lifestyle exhibition. Look at the YouTube example above. Are there any natural healthy You Tube videos that have garnered or could garner 600,000,000 views?
But the Left and its homosexual cultural weaponization elements are expert at taking a healthy natural success exhibition and injecting a perverse element.
Again the YouTube video example above captures the viewer’s interest with a catchy tune, an old theme of cute sexy girl infatuated with a handsome cute sexy boy, the viewers and listeners are caught up in the energy and nuances of this ancient ritual of girl falls for boy, the feeling is good, the ambience is uplifting and at the dance finale, the perversity is allowed to slither in.
So tactics of ignoring the problem and competing with it are prone to failure because of the Left’s adroit handling of subverting its competition.
A second approach to consider is to create the comedy, the lighthearted and euphoric setting and dynamics with a competing natural healthy setting and then inject the perversity in such a way that it leads to death, disease or repression. For example, the true story of the homosexual ‘married’ men (now ‘divorced’) who were accused of raping their adopted children:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/gay-conn-couple-accused-rape-face-trial-article-1.1310010
These two homosexuals adopted 9 boys. A film could set the scene from the perspective of these homosexuals ‘loving ‘gay’ parents’ providing a loving warm home for 9 boys and then move to the perspectives of the boys who witnessed the underlying evil. A film could also show facts of the trial brought when one of the boys turned 19. A film could dramatize the fact that these two homosexual men agreed to plead guilty and then were told to withdraw their pleas by a sinister entity pulling strings behind the scenes. A film could show how the young 19 year old was harangued by a court system that provided him NO JURY and a Judge who accused him of being a liar and how the pleas of 3 other boys were silenced while the false narrative was allowed of only one liar boy had made accusations. Such a film could show a smiling face of Anthony Kennedy and other liberal federal justices as well as the smiling dismissive faces of certain person of society in general. And this is a true story, but it is a negative story.
In fact any popular culture device that confronts and counters homosexuality must of necessity be negative and therein lies the dilemma.
Such dilemmas can be resolved by showing a transition from negative to positive. For example, a young man who was abused as a boy by an older male and who feels ashamed thinking there is something wrong with him and who is made to feel he is homosexual or has such inclinations and because of this he shuns girls; this is a negative backdrop to a positive liberating experience when a girl notices him and becomes his friend and leads him away from his shame to a natural healthy relationship.
There are countless examples of what can be done and your point is well-taken that battles must also be waged in the popular culture for the hearts and minds of Americans against the deterioration of morality and subsequent normalization of perversion.