- Only 35 years ago—a breath in the life of a culture—straight America saw gays and lesbians as forces of sexual anarchy who threatened a nation of happily married couples living in tidy houses with their beloved children.
Personally, I don't believe gays should get married. Or straight people! At least, the government should not marry them. For tax purposes, we have civil unions. Let them find a church to marry them after if they wish, or call themselves married if they don't want the church mixed up in this either.
I'm surprised The Atlantic didn't mention Ginsburg. She did a fantastic job rebutting the states' attorney.
- “Marriage today is not what it was under the common law tradition, under the civil law tradition,” said Ginsburg when Justices Roberts and Kennedy began to fret about whether the court had a right to challenge centuries of tradition.
Marriage was a relationship of a dominant male to a subordinate female,” she explained. “That ended as a result of this court’s decision in 1982 when Louisiana’s Head and Master Rule was struck down … Would that be a choice that state should [still] be allowed to have? To cling to marriage the way it once was?
I'd love to hear Scalia's response to that.