Same-sex ‘marriage’ and interracial marriage: not the same thing at all
Same Sex Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One of the same-sex marriage movement ’s most potent polemical tools has been, and surely will continue to be, its equation of same-sex marriage with interracial marriage . On this telling, today’s opposition to same-sex marriage is akin to the opposition to interracial marriage mounted by yesterday’s racists and segregationists. If this assumption were granted, then the legal recognition of same-sex marriage would seem to realize a legitimate equality. A public—like our own—that had largely accepted this parity could at least acquiesce in such a step once it has been imposed by the Supreme Court. Now the Supreme Court has actually taken such a step and in the course of doing so has given credence to the analogy between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. This argument will be employed to discredit and demonize those who dissent, those who do not want to cooperate in a distortion of the meaning of marriage. Such dissenters, we