Unbelievable

This generation's capacity for critical thought is even more impaired than I suspected. Today I have witnessed a flood of treacly pronouncements in the news and in social circles demanding that the Supreme Court make everyone "equal" as to marriage. The thinking (as it were) goes something like this: "it's totally unfair that homosexual couples are banned from getting married, so the Supreme Court should rule that they have just as much a right to marry each other as heterosexual couples."

I've posted about this before, but let's review for the people who are still sucking their bongs.

First, homosexuals are not banned from getting married anywhere in the United States. Nothing prevents them from marrying each other. There are no fire hoses, barking dogs, or lynch mobs who will stand in the way. What's at issue here is something very different, namely whether citizens of a state (in this case, California) are free to withhold their public seal of approval from such unions. Everyone chanting about freedom and equality is, in truth, seeking to impose slavery by forcing those citizens to approve of something they do not wish to. Like feminism and all other forms of leftism, the gay-rights movement seeks to force its will onto society and cannot tolerate dissent. 

Second, whether you support gay marriage has absolutely nothing to do with whether the Constitution requires it, which is the question before the Court. It is juvenile and barbaric to assume that your preferences form part of the supreme law of the land, especially here, since only a lunatic would conclude that the same Constitution that once allowed states to criminalize homosexual activity now requires states to sanctify it. The only proper response to such lunacy (which surely won't come) is for the Court to strike down what the lower federal courts did as an assault on the Constitution, a deviation from precedent, and an incursion on California's sovereignty.

Third, everyone already is equal as to marriage. We all have the right to marry one person of the opposite sex if that person is above a certain age and beyond a certain degree of kinship (but perhaps those are the next "rights" in the bullpen). The fact that you do not wish to exercise this right does not make your situation unequal or unfair. There are plenty of people who never wish to marry, and there are others (like me) who are divorced and will never marry again. And guess what? My fellow citizens have every right to acknowledge and reward their marriages as more desirable than my singlehood. I accept that the enhanced public status of marriage will never be mine again, and I am not so arrogant as to demand that the community treat me as "equal" in this regard. To sanctify everyone equally is to sanctify nobody, and believe me, that's the real goal afoot here and with leftism in general -- dragging everyone down as opposed to allowing only some to rise up.

This episode captures so much that is fallen about our modern condition, such as the triumph of emotion over reason, of courts over the people, and of centralized power over the Constitution.