Ultimately these nine justices will decide either to recklessly deconstruct radically redefine and render functionally trivial the age-old institution of natural marriage or leave it alone.
Next week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two of the most critical cases of our time. On Tuesday March 26 attorneys will make the pitch both for and against Californias Proposition 8. This of course is the Golden States pro-marriage amendment. It maintained the timeless definition of natural marriage as between man and wife.
Then on Wednesday March 27 the high court will consider the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1996 with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by then President Bill Clinton. It likewise secured the definition of legitimate marriage for purposes of federal law.
Although both cases certainly address a multitude of legal and political issues they also involve a number of moral and cultural considerations that if wrongly decided will literally shake Western civilization to the core.
The stakes could not be higher. Of central concern is whether the Supreme Court will put its official stamp of approval on that cartoonish contradiction-in-terms labeled same-sex marriage." Ultimately these nine justices will decide either to recklessly deconstruct radically redefine and render functionally trivial the age-old institution of natural marriage or leave it alone.
Theyd better leave it alone.
Heres the bottom line: Homosexual activists dont want the white picket fence. They want to burn down the white picket fence. The endgame is not to achieve so-called marriage equality" but rather to render marriage reality meaningless.
In a recent column headlined The Revolt of Intelligence Against Marriage Equality" worldview expert Rick Pearcey addressed one prominent gay" activists admission that the destruction of natural marriage signifies the lefts ultimate cultural coup de grce.
Masha Gessen a lesbian and a journalist spoke frankly about this at a conference in Sydney Australia" he wrote. Its a no-brainer that we should have the right to marry she said. But I also think equally that its a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. … Marriage equality becomes marriage elasticity with the ultimate goal of marriage extinction."
Still if counterfeit same-sex marriage" becomes the law of the land then a whole lot more freaky deaky will follow before marriage extinction inevitably occurs.
One of liberals favorite Alinskyite defense mechanisms is to ridicule the opposition if confronted with some irrefutable argument against some hallowed left-wing delusion. Such is the tactic employed whenever a thinking person walks into the room and points out this big ol gay elephant: Once the government pretends that some vague combination of love" and consent" are all that a marriage" requires then other arbitrary" and discriminatory" parameters beyond a binary male-female prerequisite must also go poof.
That is to say if the Court magically divines some constitutional right to same-sex marriage" then full marriage equality" necessarily demands that polygamous incestuous and any other equally aberrant nuptial cocktail be likewise permitted.
Its a no-brainer" right?
To that end Im very concerned with the Supreme Courts recent history of radically redefining that which cannot be redefined. Though examples abound Im thinking specifically as concerns the topic at hand of the Courts 2003 holding in Lawrence v. Texas.
In Lawrence the liberal majority for the first time in history radically redefined male-on-male sodomy hitherto classified a crime against nature" as a constitutional right."
In his characteristically brilliant dissent Justice Antonin Scalia voiced my concerns better than I can: State laws against bigamy same-sex marriage adult incest prostitution masturbation adultery fornication bestiality and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers validation of laws based on moral choices" he wrote. Every single one of these laws is called into question by todays decision."
So if the high court removes one natural marriage parameter for one special-interest group then equal protection under the law" requires that it remove all natural marriage parameters for all special-interest groups.
Liberty Counsel made these very points in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court: Ultimately there is no principled basis for recognizing a legality of same-sex marriage without simultaneously providing a basis for the legality of consensual polygamy or certain adult incestuous relationships" noted the brief. In fact every argument for same-sex marriage is an argument for them as well."
Another brief filed by 18 state attorneys general voiced similar concerns: Once the natural limits that inhere in the relationship between a man and a woman can no longer sustain the definition of marriage the conclusion that follows is that any grouping of adults would have an equal claim to marriage" they wrote.
The brief further observed the self-evident no-brainer" that legitimate marriage is optimal for children and society at large."
Its all very simple. If anything is marriage then everything is marriage. And if everything is marriage then nothing is marriage at all. Marriage equality becomes marriage elasticity with the ultimate goal of marriage extinction."
I sincerely hope that the honorable and learned men and women who sit upon the highest bench in the land can recognize that all of these San Francisco-style social-engineering games are a deceptive means to a destructive end.
And its not the emotionalist end theyve dolled-up and dished out. The lefts fierce push for gay marriage" has nothing to do with marriage equality" and everything to do with marriage extinction."
Or as Ms. Gessen candidly put it: Its a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist."
I just pray that at least five justices still think it should.