R E S P E C T, find out what it means to me....
As best as I can tell, California's Proposition 8 is about "respect."
This means that each side says, "The Law has to respect my concept of marriage, and it has to avoid affirming the other side's concept of marriage."
This prop isn't about how we want to live, it's about how we want to think about how we live.
"Some of my best friends," as they say, work at Focus on the Family... and some of my best friends are gay.
I'm not convinced that how marriage is seen in the eyes of the law makes any real difference in a society, except psychologically.
Dennis Prager is in a lather about how societies have always defined marriage as between two sexes.
But what's the problem if it gets defined differently? Will you or I accidentally marry the same sex? "Aw, nuts, I got confused by these shifting definitions..."
What is more intriguing to me is why conservatives, who in theory despise excessive government, want to use government as a weapon in the culture wars -- regarding marriage, what happens within the walls of a woman's body, and so on. Don't like government? Fine -- let people live their lives. But if you need to make laws that protect your definition of morality, you're not a small-government person.
Rob,
Okay, I'm generally agreeing with you - is this the sign of the apocalypse? Conservatives want to ban gay marriage, overturn Roe v. Wade, etc; in other words, they want to put constraints around the way *some* of us conduct our lives. Liberals want to take more of our money and further intrude on *all* of our lives. Both are equally wrong, but the impact is felt more from the left than from the right.