Under the thin disguise of rights-talk, the SSM campaign attempts to relocate the core of marriage to someplace far out of bounds. They present, as their supposed gift to civilization, their hollow SSM idea into which they've injected the gay emphasis of SSM rhetoric. This Trojan Horse is no gift.
The merger of marriage with SSM can not be sustained without Government enforcement of the hostile notion that the core meaning of civlization's foundational social institution, and the rationale for its special place in society, is intolerable.
That is the reason that SSMers have come to demand that the big hand of Government become the servant of identity politics of the gaycentric kind. It began with pleas for tolerance and has rapidly progressed to demands for crushing dissent and opposition both in the law, social policy, and culture.
The marriage idea does not come with this political baggage. It is an organic idea that has sustained itself for millennia. Its opposite-sexed basis is sexual, social, moral, and conceptual. It is an aspirational ideal that has stood the test of time and is well-expressed in our reasonable and pragmatic marriage laws.
The threat of the SSM campaign is that this rich inheritance will be squandered for no good reason. Indeed, to reject the core meaning of marriage requires an extraordinarily good reason for such an extraordinarily destructive act of Government.
But it is telling, very telling, that no such extraordinarily good reason has been forthcoming.
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