More and more activists on the far right have blamed the recent political and legal victories of gay rights advocates on what they perceive as reluctance among conservatives to attack gays and lesbians more directly and aggressively. In response to a recent court ruling that struck down a section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional, MassResistance said that supporters of the law must do more to challenge DOMA opponents’ underlying claims that gays and lesbians are “simply a minority group whose rights are illegally being denied by the federal government.”
“As long as homosexual behavior is not presented as abnormal, medically dangerous, and morally repugnant,” the group writes, “we will continue to lose.” MassResistance lamented the use of “cowardly” legal arguments that stress the importance of opposite-sex relationships instead of explicitly attacking homosexuality, concluding, “any legal argument on homosexual ‘marriage’ is bordering on madness, because the concept itself is sheer lunacy. We need to start saying that.”
The decision thus asserts that homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” are legitimate and unassailable from a moral or other standpoint. And from that assertion, homosexual “marriage” and heterosexual marriage are morally and legally interchangeable. And homosexuals are simply a minority group whose rights are illegally being denied by the federal government. This is all the homosexual groups needed to move forward.
The homosexual movement knows it cannot accomplish its goals through the ballot box (they’ve lost 32 state elections in a row). They’ve had some success through massive lobbying of state legislatures. But their most direct way is through corrupt courts. Taking down the DOMA law is key to forcing the imposition of “gay marriage” throughout America despite the votes in those 32 states. But it’s still a considerable legal challenge to do it all at once. So by successfully attacking this narrow part of the DOMA law — federal benefits and income tax filing status — the homosexual movement opens the door to sebsequently [sic] dismantling all the rest of it.
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As long as homosexual behavior is not presented as abnormal, medically dangerous, and morally repugnant we will continue to lose. If other side is allowed to portray homosexuality as normal and natural (but something conservatives simply are “bigoted” about) in their legal arguments, they will always eventually prevail. We cannot concede those points and instead attempt to argue on the basis of “legal” reasoning, the historical “purpose” of marriage, or weak-kneed arguments such as “every child needs a mother and father.” But unfortunately that is exactly what too many pro-family lawyers and pro-family spokesmen do. It’s the “respectable” path. But it’s cowardly, ineffective, and the road to hell (so to speak).
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The next step is the US Supreme Court. Will they agree with this? We certainly hope not, but it’s frighteningly possible.
Our side has a terribly bad record of winning these kinds of court cases — for the reasons stated above. In the grand scheme of things, any legal argument on homosexual “marriage” is bordering on madness, because the concept itself is sheer lunacy. We need to start saying that. As George Orwell once said, “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” Let’s hope that the House of Representatives’ legal team can find it in themselves to do the right thing.
