Posted on 06/30/2003 10:08:18 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Backers of a constitutional amendment to declare marriage a covenant between a man and woman are calling last week's Supreme Court sodomy ruling a boost, but they say it will take a state endorsing homosexual "marriage" to force a vote.
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Yeah, and up is down, hot is cold, and in is out.
I've gotten pretty tired of all the "Woe is me ! We're doomed ! Doomed I say !" type sentiment that's posted over and over. Too many so-called conservatives are too ready to roll over and play dead.
Oddly enough, SCOTUS's poor ruling may be just the defense that those who oppose Gay Marriage need. Had they used the reasoning that "if straights can do it legally, then so can gays", it would have been far tougher to combat the Gay Marriage movement. It is pretty difficult to say that an official civil ceremony whose results are made very public and whose consequences affect the public (tax status changes, insurance changes, etc) is protected by the "Right to Privacy".
That, along with the outrage of millions who disagree with the ruling, can certainly give the movement a boost.
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