Friday, August 25, 2006
A bogus issue indeed
I was accosted on West End Avenue last week by an individual who was imploring me to vote against adding an amendment to ban gay marriage to the state constitution. Standing nearby was another "vote no" individual who was holding a sign upon which was a slogan implying that voting for the amendment will somehow be an affront - or assault - on gay folks' human rights.
The pro-gay marriage crowd has been trying to turn their pet issue into a civil rights/human rights crusade for quite some time now. Leave it to Thomas Sowell - one of the smartest SOBs 'round - to show that the various Gay Marriage Now! campaigns are neither human rights nor civil rights issues ... they are bogus issues:
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the life of the law has not been logic but experience. Vast numbers of laws have accumulated and evolved over the centuries, based on experience with male-female unions.
There is no reason why all those laws should be transferred willy-nilly to a different union, one with no inherent tendency to produce children nor the inherent asymmetries of relationships between people of different sexes.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/15/gay_marriage
The pro-gay marriage crowd has been trying to turn their pet issue into a civil rights/human rights crusade for quite some time now. Leave it to Thomas Sowell - one of the smartest SOBs 'round - to show that the various Gay Marriage Now! campaigns are neither human rights nor civil rights issues ... they are bogus issues:
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the life of the law has not been logic but experience. Vast numbers of laws have accumulated and evolved over the centuries, based on experience with male-female unions.
There is no reason why all those laws should be transferred willy-nilly to a different union, one with no inherent tendency to produce children nor the inherent asymmetries of relationships between people of different sexes.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/15/gay_marriage
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, August 25, 2006 
