The High Court has spoken; the 30-year “Culture War” is officially over.
Technically speaking, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the unconstitutionality of denying federal benefits to same-sex married couples isn’t quite so all-encompassing. Symbolically, however, the meaning of the decision is clear enough.
It’s important to recognize the manner in which this victory/defeat has taken place. For at least a century, the Marxian Left (in various phases) has taken up the charge of abolishing marriage. The traditional family was, depending on the time and place, the last bastion of Christian mystification, capitalism, sexism, patriarchy, racism, homophobia, meat-eating, und so weiter. . .
For a retro-leftist, the idea of “gay marriage” is as subversive and ridiculous as it is for a traditionalist: “gay marriage” would mean bringing homosexuals into the oppressive, bourgeois tyranny of monogamy!
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