Gay Marriage, Equality and War

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | March 18, 2013

As the Justices ask themselves whether or not homosexual couples are constitutionally entitled to marriage next week, they will certainly ponder how the United States Constitution came to be and how we have succeeded as a nation.

The liberal justices will undoubtedly embrace the president’s own reading of American history. Obama’s February inaugural address sums up how the president thinks: “It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began… Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

I wonder if that is what 25,000 american patriots died for at the founding of our nation. I wonder if that is what Abraham Lincoln had in mind when he watched 625,000 americans die in the war to end slavery, when he signed the emancipation proclamation, or what Congress had in mind when it enacted the 14th amendment. I wonder if that is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed, and the reason other civil right leaders fought to abolish Jim Crow…

In fact, I am pretty sure nothing could have been farther removed from all their minds. They would have all thought it deeply offensive (scandalous!) that anyone would suggest that all those patriots fought and died so that homosexual couples could marry. Even today – when polls tell us that a majority of Americans support gay marriage, despite bans on gay marriage in 42 states – I doubt any Americans would be willing to give their lives so that homosexuals can sodomize each other with the blessings of the law.

The problem is Obama thinks they are. By designating LGBT rights a foreign policy priority he said as much. Who knows what he might be emboldened to do if the Justices accept his reading of US history…

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