While John McCain and the GOP continue to keep quiet about last week's California Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage, the party's Religious Right base continues to be just bit more exercised over the decision. Here's popular radio host Dennis Prager, a Jewish ally of the Christian Right:
Nothing imaginable -- leftward or rightward -- would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history: Not another Prohibition, not government taking over all health care, not changing all public education to private schools, not America leaving the United Nations, not rescinding the income tax and replacing it with a consumption tax. Nothing.
Just a reminder to McCain and the GOP that stopping gay marriage is not exactly a low-rung priority for its base.
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"Nothing imaginable -- leftward or rightward -- would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history"
I call blarney on that. In fact, I call double blarney.
First of all, it is not such a "radical change" - and the California Supreme Court's decision is quite clear on that: "permitting same-sex couples access to the designation of marriage will not ... alter the legal framework of the institution of marriage". It remains 2 people and the only difference is that those 2 people are no longer restricted to people of the opposite sex, just like in Loving v. Virginia that said marriage could not be restricted to 2 people of the same race.
Society has hardly been "restructured". I mean, doesn't the Constitution 'guarantee' equal treatment before the law anymore?
Secondly, "the first time in history"! Talk about hyperbole. Talk about falsehoods. See above re the change in the race of the people involved, and then visit the time when the State finally did restrict it to 2 people.
If the "right" has to resort to bearing false witness against God's gay and lesbian children, their fight against equality (and justice, and liberty for all) is not just bound to fail, it deserves to fail.
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