This post will probably piss off some Conservatives. My one and only reader might delete his bookmark. Guess I’ll be back to zero, oh well.
Lets talk about gay marriage.
I read David Boaz’s recent article in Cato@Liberty where he posted an excerpt from a story by David Link at the Independent Gay Forum. The last paragraph is what got me thinking about the issue.
But denial on such a wide scale has to begin fraying at the edges. And when homosexuality did come up, as Chauncey so vividly described — in criminal trials, bar raids, and mass arrests – the reporting had a condemnatory force built-in. The police arrested a dozen sexual perverts; a high-profile degenerate was found in a love nest; a bar owner lost his license because his business catered to deviants.
We actually had laws in the United States criminalizing the social interactions of Americans in the privacy of their own homes or businesses. Unquestionably unconstitutional. Equal rights in the United States has always been a great idea but never fully realized.
Conservatives demand that Liberals not impose their version of virtue through government police powers and Liberals demand the same of the Conservative version of morality. It seems to be an elusive compromise to Conservatives and Liberals to legislate neither virtue nor morality but, a simple one to a Libertarian who believes in individual freedom.
I’m willing to concede the fact that the definition of marriage is the union of one man and one woman. But, what exactly is the objection to an equivalent institution with a different name entitled Civil Unions other than a moralistic objection.
In a truly free society where all share the burden of taxation equally and all have equal rights, a government marriage certificate (or civil union) is nothing more than a living will. What gives anybody the right to dictate the will of another if they aren’t interfering with your freedoms?
Either the government should get out of the marriage business completely or there should be an equivalent institution for all Americans. I’m in favor of government getting out of the business myself. It’s none of the government’s business (which means it’s none of your business) how a free person chooses to live their life, gay or straight.
I’m a white heterosexual Christian male which puts me squarely in the majority in this country but, my opinion of how you should live your life doesn’t matter. You are free to make your own choices as long as they don’t impinge on my freedom to make my own choices.
