[GCFL-discuss] California Dreaming

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

In case anyone wants to hear my opinion on the latest high-profile
decision from the Supreme Court of California,

or even if nobody wants to hear it at all (that's what DELETE buttons
were made for)...

It seems to me that the political operatives who wrapped themselves in
some semblance of Jesus and made "The Homosexual Agenda" a loud, if
hollow, political issue, have set up the current run of decisions, from
Massachusetts to California.

How?

The debate was shaped to give credence to the existence of distinct
classes referenced as "homosexuals" and "heterosexuals." In fact, there
are no such classes. There are men, and there are women. Most men find
women attractive mates. Most women find men attractive mates. Some men
find men attractive, and some women find women attractive.

Nobody wrote marriage laws to "allow" heterosexuals to marry, or "forbid"
homosexuals to marry. These "classes" didn't even register on anyone's
radar screen when marriage laws were written. Homosexuality was a desire
or an act, not a class of people. Naturally, the nature of the act
requires people who share the desire to find each other, but that does
not make them a legally protected class.

Once the notion of distinct classes is accepted, application of Equal
Protection of the Laws is almost inevitable. If the notion that there is
a class of people called "homosexuals" is demolished, then the whole
legal argument falls apart.

If anyone had asked me, this argument probably could have swung one or
two justices, but nobody did. Next we will have an argument that men have
the right to marry their cars, and women have the right to marry their
cars too.

Siarlys