I don’t necessarily disagree, but am not quite sure what route forward you are endorsing. Are you suggesting we individual conservatives accept defeat, accept gay marriage and say no more about it?
“I don’t necessarily disagree, but am not quite sure what route forward you are endorsing. Are you suggesting we individual conservatives accept defeat, accept gay marriage and say no more about it?”
Well, at this point it seems to me that a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage is no longer possible. It certainly doesn’t have the votes to pass both houses of today’s Congress, and I don’t foresee any time soon when we will again have the necessary majorities in Congress, if ever again. So that isn’t going to happen.
Nor does it do much good for conservatives to waste their energy trying to overturn homo-marriage in states where it already exists. Simply not within the realm of possibility. It was only last October, when the issue of homo-marriage loomed on the ballot of 4 states, that there were still folks in this forum repeating the mantra that “gay marriage loses every time it’s been placed on the ballot.” Well, guess what? Homo-marriage won in all four states where it was a ballot issue. Simply stated, the blue states are lost to us on this.
What do I see as worth doing? That would be “holding the line” in the red states where resistance is still possible. In each of these states, I think conservatives should push for legislation or ballot measures seeking to incorporate the “definition of marriage” within each state’s constitution. Doing so will protect the issue from court attacks at the state level.
Of course, even that won’t protect traditional marriage from a decree by the U.S. Supreme Court that invalidates the Defense of Marriage Act, along with any state-based attempts to protect marriage. It’s just too early to tell from what angle the left’s “final attack” is going to come.
If there is a fight left, it must be waged on the territory that we still hold.
Ultimately, the marriage issue may become one of the driving wedges (along with gun control and the Second Amendment) that fracture the Union to the point from which it can no longer continue. We’ll just have to wait and see.