Maggie Gallagher: Redefinition Revolution
Maggie Gallagher has this commentary on National Review Online. She begins:
Today, California same-sex couples are rushing to the altar. But this November, California voters will have their chance to say “I do” or “I do not” to gay marriage.
In the meantime, what have we learned about what gay marriage will mean for gays, for marriage, and for the wider society? In just the last few months, a newly confident same-sex-marriage movement is becoming more open and revealing about the answers . . .
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Maggie calls for people of good will to fight marriage equality, but she shows no good will in her opposition to fair treatment of same-sex couple. If she’d fight in earnest for Civil Unions and legal equity, she’d have more likelihood of offer separate but actually equal.
Since she really wants separate and grossly unequal, is there any surprise the marriage debate is so heated?
If you are going to make these kinds of claims, then the burden is on you to explain how this is about equality. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get beyond the name-calling to that kind of substantive debate.
The institution of marriage has always been open to those who engage in homosexual conduct on the same terms as everyone else.
The debate is about the definition of an institution and what kinds of conduct should be promoted by the state.