CNN reports that the US District Court for Northern California will release its decision, sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. CT today, whether to continue the stay on Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision on Prop 8. In other words, California could have same-sex marriages again by tomorrow morning.
Part of Walker’s shoddy reasoning includes the attempt to analogize past irrational bans on interracial marriage and contemporary bans on same-sex marriage. If part of “real” marriage includes the possibility of procreation, then there is no analogy. An interracial (aren’t we beyond this language?!?) male-female couple, normally, possesses all the right accoutrements for procreating a child. Here’s CNN quoting part of Walker’s rationale:
“Race restrictions on marital partners were once common in most states but are now seen as archaic, shameful or even bizarre,” he added. “Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”
Don’t even get me started on the contemporary sociological definition of “gender.” “Gender” is society’s construct of roles and behaviors based on “sex” (male or female); gender is not “sex,” per se. Note how there is no rational recognition of the physical reality of sex differences, the societal fruits of marriage, or the societal harms caused by illegitimate sexual activity in Walker’s reasoning.
(Special Note: Do not use the word “gender” unless you are going to explain the sociological definition, which is what is being used in many quarters today.)
Such reasoning only seeks to legitimize, via the state, preferred sexual pleasure. Behold, The Abyss!
This issue isn’t at all about “rights” or “equality,” y’all. It is about legitimizing illegitimate sex, and all that comes with it.
