[gcruse]

No, what's at issue here is the social conservative's alarm at the failure of state power to dictate the private lives of consenting adults. Raising the clamor to the level of national disaster just indicates how embedded the desire to control others is in 'freedom' loving conservatism.

[longtermmemmory]

No just the opposite State power HAS forced beyond toleance it has IMPOSSED ACCEPTANCE by fiat. There was no consent of the rulled only a edict passed by the unelected and unaccountable. In case you missed it, in 1776 there was the same clamor to the immoral edicts of another monarchy.