Free Republic

The problem with the "gay marriage" issue is that the more fundamental issue is not gay marriage. The real issue is who should decide such issues -- that is, what kind of country and what kind of government do we have or want to have?What does democracy mean if any headstrong minority can violate the laws passed by a majority and enshrined in centuries of legal precedents? Some headstrong minorities have taken to the streets and some have violated the rule of law in the very courts of law, while wearing their judicial robes. In San Francisco, a mayor is...

<p>Before the courts and the activist mayors hijacked the issue, there really was a genuine debate, an intelligent discussion, about the merits and consequences of same-sex marriage.</p> <p>As it happened, it was between conservative and conservative.</p> <p>On the right was Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, who argued with informed passion and good sense for the traditionalist concept of marriage.</p>