Good old Massachussetts has managed to drop a HUGE issue into all of our laps yet again. First rebellion against British authority, then the possibility of secession, now gay marriage. What’s next?
This is an ugly one. There’s no way anyone can make a negative comment about the issue without being accused of all the sins in the calendar: bigotry, homophobia, ignorance, etc. I dig this website but even she flew completely off the handle about commentary offered on this whole situation by usually well considered commentators. Oh well, what hope do I have?
No point in rehashing old stuff. I thought I had rambled on about this issue more than once but I could only find one instance. Let’s just say I’m not a fan of the idea of gay marriage. Either define marriage as the union of one man and one woman and cut the whole movement off at the knees or abolish all state recognition of marriage as a central or unique institution and move on. There really aren’t any other good choices here. If a law is enacted to allow a man and a man or a woman and a woman to marry because the Constitution gives folks the right to “privacy,” &c then regardless of what anyone says there’s absolutely nothing but moral disdain to prevent an infinite collection of marital combinations from becoming law: two men and one woman, a child and an adult, a man and a goat, ad infinitum. Moral disdain only goes so far. While I think it’s perfectly right and good that homosexuals are accorded their place in society and ought to be free from all persecution we must all remember that not 50 years ago they were the subject of terrible repression and absolutely outside the bounds of traditional moral society.
A lot can change in 50 years.
Now that I’ve surely gotten myself in serious trouble and ran the risks of being lumped in with the bigots, extremists, evangelical nutbags, &c I think I’ll shut up now.