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May 31, 2006

Gay Marriage Amendment: Republicans Use Demagoguery to Pave the Way for Tyranny and Oppression

"The question posed by the [anti-Gay] marriage amendment" says Reason.com, "is not just whether gay marriage is a good idea, but who should decide—the states or the federal government? From its debut in 2001, the marriage amendment was misleadingly advertised as a restriction on activist courts. In truth, the amendment would strip the power to adopt same-sex marriage not only from judges but from all 50 states' legislators, governors, and electorates."

Well, that's a good start from the Libertarian/libertarian leaning Reasonoids. What they should ask themselves next and justify if they can is WTH should anyone but the couples involved get any say in the matter? Assuming the usual caveats (adult age, voluntary consent, soundness of mind, et. al) of course.

So why do the GOP bother with this stuff? Consider Virginia, where in 2004 the Republican-controlled Legislature hit on the promising formula of passing both a whopping tax increase and a gratuitously vindictive anti-gay-marriage law. (The so-called Marriage Affirmation Act outlawed not only gay marriage and civil unions, but also private contracts between same-sex individuals seeking to replicate marital arrangements.) Lyndon Johnson once said, "Hell, give [a man] somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." The Virginia formula was in that vein: Knock the gays hard enough, and maybe conservatives wouldn't notice the tax hike. It didn't work either. The Democrats won the election anyhow.

And further note this whole business of character blackening going on around marriage and moral issues right now with Top Ten FBI fugitive Warren Jeffs out in Texas and Arizona as an example. "How dare this prick (says the FBI and local authorities) break the law by taking more than one wife! He's prolly a tax cheat, a pedophile, a gun owner too. And a self-admitted religious kook,(even by Mormon standards) as well." Why all this? "Cui bono?” my friends. When the SWAT team finally surrounds the compound of Jeffs' outfit and the bullets fly and the bombs go off, most of the sheep will be far and away fully convinced that Jeffs and his sect somehow deserve their fiery and violent destruction, that's why. Better planning than at Waco in 1993, eh?

Posted by Ali Massoud at May 31, 2006 01:16 PM

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