A Gay Marriage Test

I'm freaking out about this gay marriage stuff. There is some kind of spontaneous groundswell occuring, which is bringing a little spine out of a few standout politicians, and activists in disparate states seem to be gaining confidence by watching what others are doing, what's working, what's not (one of the strange but nice consequences of our federal system, using states as little laboratories of democracy). There have been a few interesting articles, by Thom Hartmann and, about Bush's views on it from News Max. At the same time, groups all around the nation seem to have realized that their state constitution's Equal Protection Clauses are their most valuable tool in showing that legislated definitions of marriage as limited to men and women are unconstitutional. Years of slow building and organizing are beginning to take a firm hold. In fact, the beautiful thing about San Francisco, Massachussetts, New Mexico and, now it seems, Chicago (and probably others soon), is that it has shown clearly that the Republican stance against gay marriage has no basis other than religious conviction.

Republicans denied this for years, claming that the law was on their side. Well, I suppose that this still has yet to be tested, although the dockets are being loaded up as we speak with vigorous Constitutional tests. Anyway, libertarians who have given the Republican party the benefit of the doubt (as the protectors of small, unobtrusive government) should take note: Republicans are now spending record amounts on defense and a big bloated overhaul of Medicare that not even those big-spending Democrats like. And...they are now dedicating endless hours to making sure that a man and man or a woman and woman (or a tranny and tranny or whatever, who cares) can't decide to enter into a stable and loving relationship (which, it would seem, would do a lot of good for that family spirit Bush said he was all for, but now finds "troubling"). This debate has at the very least shown that it is not about solving problems that opponents of gay marriage are concerned, but creating a Christian theocracy. It's so nice when things get cleared up so that we can move on. I wonder if the same people who fear gay marriage would like to execute people for getting divorced and destroying the American hetero-conjugal dreamstate?