Homosexual Marriage: The Latest in the Cultural Game of 'Can You Top This?'

The Richmond [VA] Times-Dispatch ^ | November 20, 2003 | Ross Mackenzie

[quidnunc]

In the beginning, maybe it was Adam and Bruce after all

[LiteKeeper]

read in the AM

[goldstategop]

Liberals will not rest until the culture has been completely remade in their image.

[Reactionary]

"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."

Looking across the sea doesn't have anything to with an "enduring Constitution," I'm afraid. Yet, dear justice Breyer somehow insists on looking towards the same egalitarian nitwits that have given us fascism and communism as a model for our "enduring" legacy.

It's all about radical socialist equality to this fanatic, and he actually thinks it will end in greater freedom? He's a moron.

[nickcarraway]

Does this mean it will soon be illegal for a man to marry a woman?

[dennisw]

Yep!!!!!!

[joebuck]

"Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."

Interesting. Hitler used pretty much the exact same reasoning and rhetoric to justisfy Natzism in the late '30's. It seems virtually every political power play in history was justified using the cliches of security and freedom from oppression.

[Yeti]

I'll tell you something that occurs to me lately.

There has been a lot of talk about the moral slippery slope thing that will follow this(bestiality, etc..), but we'll see something before we get that far that will have some of us fuming. Some states(probably all states) have marriage exceptions to their statutory rape laws. In Alabama, for example, I think you can be married at 13, with your parents' permission.

When states with low marriage ages start to allow gay marriage, you will have the spectre of gay adults marrying 13-14-15 year-old kids. Parents who accept large sums of money for giving permission. Gay adoptive "parents" giving eachother permission to marry eachother's kids. Things like that.

[Prolifeconservative]

You have totally hit the nail on the head with your comments. Amen.

I listened to Boortz yesterday, and while he's right on a lot of things, he is dead wrong on this one. He was arguing who's business is it if two Homo's want to hook up and marry, doesn't hurt me, doesn't hurt you, let them be recognized, Homo's are citizens too, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, blah.

Ah yes, the slippery slope in which you pointed out.....is where this is headed and what this is all about. I would have loved to call Boortz yesterday and asked him if it would be okay if his neighbor had sex with a goat in his front yard every morning and he would be forced to notice when he picked his paper up in the morning. And would it be okay with Boortz if a man and his sex-toy-monkey where allowed to be married and given the same legal and societal status as me and my wife.

We are so out-of-whack Morally in this Nation I shudder to think of the conesequences down the line.

[Prolifeconservative]

The slippery slope just got more slippery and steeper. Folks, we aren't even close to the bottom yet.

If this "slide" doesn't stop soon, it will lead straight to hell!