This week the U.S. Supreme Court
will hear oral arguments on the most critical cases of our time related to
marriage equality. On Tuesday, March 26, attorneys will make the pitch both for
and against California’s Proposition 8. This, of course, is the Golden State’s
pro-marriage amendment. It maintained the timeless definition of natural
marriage as between man and wife.
Then, on Wednesday, March 27, the
high court will consider the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA), passed in 1996 with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law
by then President Bill Clinton. It, likewise, secured the definition of
legitimate marriage for purposes of federal law.
Although both cases certainly
address a multitude of legal and political issues, they also involve a number
of moral and cultural considerations that, if wrongly decided, will literally
shake Western civilization to the core.
The stakes could not be higher. Of
central concern is whether the Supreme Court will put its official stamp of
approval on that cartoonish contradiction-in-terms labeled “same-sex marriage.”
Ultimately, these nine justices will decide recklessly either to deconstruct,
radically redefine and render functionally trivial the age-old institution of
natural marriage – or leave it alone.
They’d better leave it alone.
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