Today, 08:22 AM
You cannot give Reputation to the same post twice.
The moment government arrogated to itself the authority to define marriage, it made the subject a matter to be dealt with, not organically by culture, but politically by force.
Thus, the issue is now to be decided by whichever groups or factions can keep or acquire sufficient political power to impose its agenda.
By making definitions or "defenses" of marriage a matter of formal government policy rather than of informal cultural consensus, conservatives gifted progressives with one of the levers they needed to exploit issues of sexuality to fuller advantage, thereby reducing the amount of work they otherwise would have had to do in order to get to the same place. (This is why, when conservatives try to "legislate morality," the progressives so often end up beating them over the head with it.)
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