Dennis Prager on Same-Sex Marriage - 1 of 3

Dennis Prager on Same-Sex Marriage Law – 1 of 3
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Americans seem mesmerized by the word “change.” And, by golly, they sure got it last week from the California Supreme Court. It is difficult to imagine a single social change greater than redefining marriage from opposite sex to include members of the same sex.

Nothing imaginable – leftward or rightward – would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history. Not another Prohibition, not government taking over all health care, not changing all public education to private schools, not America leaving the United Nations, not rescinding the income tax and replacing it with a consumption tax. Nothing.

Unless California amend the California Constitution or Congress amends the U.S. Constitution, four justices of the California Supreme Court will have changed American society more than any four individuals since Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison.

And what is particularly amazing is that virtually none of those who support this decision – let alone the four compassionate justices- acknowledge this. The mantra of the supporters of this sea change in society is that it’s no big deal. Hey, it doesn’t affect any heterosexuals’ marriage, so what’s the problem.

This lack of acknowledgment – or even awareness – of how-society changing is this redefinition of marriage is one reason the decision was made. To the four compassionate ones – and their millions of compassionate supporters – allowing same-sex marriage is nothing more than what courts did to end legal bans on interracial marriage. The justices and their supporters know not what they did. They think that all they did was extend a “right” that had been unfairly denied to gays.

That is one reason the argument that this decision is the same as courts undoing legal bans on marriages between races is false. No major religion – not Judaism, not Christianity, not Islam, not Buddhism – ever banned interracial marriage. Some religions have banned marriage with members of other religions.
But since these religions allowed anyone of any race to convert, i.e., become a member of that religion, the race or ethnicity of individuals never mattered with regard to marriage. American bans on interracial marriages were not supported by any major religious or moral system; those bans were immoral aberrations, no matter how many religious individuals may have supported them. Justices who overthrew bans on interracial marriages, therefore, had virtually every moral and religious value system on their side. But justices who overthrow the ban on same-sex marriage have nothing other hubris and their notion of compassion on their side. (Continued this Sunday and Monday) www.townhall.com/DennisPrager

The question is, “How can we get the content of what Dennis Prager has written into the minds and hearts of voters in Orange County?” Dennis Prager is on KLAC 870 Talk Radio @ 9 A.M. to 12 Noon from Monday to Friday.

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