Residual Forces

If gay marriage has a legacy, I must be Zeus.

Legacy of Gay Marriage Ruling Mixed

Opponents saw it as a huge blow to the American family. Supporters looked on it as a moment of liberation. The first legal gay marriages in Massachusetts were a pivotal moment in America’s culture wars. A year later, the legacy is mixed — they remain legal here, and civil unions have been legalized in neighboring Connecticut, but a dozen states were propelled to prohibit same-sex weddings.

But the flurry of gay weddings that followed in California, Oregon and New York turned out to be merely symbolic, and activists have dug in for what they say could be a decades-long battle akin to the abortion divide.

Oh, now the majority is the activists. Fine. I onnly hope we have as much success protecting marriage as the pro-choice activists have had protecting infanticide no murder no birthcontrol no that’s not what they call it, oh yeah, reproductive rights.

Or you mean that a large portion of the nation does not think that the judges in their own states should be allowed to write law. And were prpelled to pass amendments protecting themselves from activist judges. That’s exactly how Mass got same sex marriage. A judge demanded that the Mass legislature write one.

After the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 that the state constitution guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry — and set May 17 as the first day the licenses could be issued — opponents set their sights on changing the constitution.

Oh, the courts decided it? I wonder why so many other states rushed to pass amendments?

“There was so much tumult about this and fear and panic by our opponents,” said Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. “A year later the only people who seem to think about our marriages are the gay folks who got married.”

really? Then why is it that every day I hear about gay marriage? Why is Mass held up by a very small few as a meca for freedom and tolerance? And why has just about every other state been talking about protecting traditional marriages from courts?

Outside Massachusetts, it’s a different story. Opponents say they expect the juggernaut of constitutional amendments blocking gay marriage to keep rolling along as more people realize the threat posed to traditional marriage.

Sounds like I can coin my own phrase here ala Rush. That sounds a lot like a “Residual Echo Syndrom”.

Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee plan elections next year on same-sex marriage bans, and more than a dozen other states are considering them.

Let’s do a tally.
States allowing Same Sex Marriage

States already defining marriages as one man one woman

States considering protecting marriage

Totals

Gay marriage supporters think time is on their side. They say young people are more accepting of gay rights and as they age, the country as a whole will grow more tolerant.

Yes, if the rest of the population will just hurry up and die, same sex people will be left all alone. Yippie, but so long human race.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve read all day.

“States like Massachusetts are doing something that’s so important. They are educating the rest of the country that it is no big deal,” said Cheryl Jacques, the former president of the Human Rights Campaign who married her partner in August.

No big deal? I disagree. Same sex sex, is by its very nature, different. Trying to educate force people to acept something they don’t think is normal. And what’s worse, they are doing it through shame. This attitude that is portrayed by the SS supporters of people like me being intolerant is a campaign not based on facts or proof, but shame.

She went on.

“Once you’ve tasted full equality there is no going back. There is no turning this around.”

For some reason that sounds very bad. Kind of sexual. Almost like I’m supposed to be gay.

Even with the judicial activism in Nebraska this week, I still think traditional marriage is, by and large, the will of the people.