Gay Marriage & Totalitarianism
We have discussed gay marriage in terms of theology and morality. Now let us consider it in political terms. What kind of government is it that takes to Image via Wikipedia itself the power and the authority to make such a radical change in the institution of marriage ? George Weigel makes the connection between gay marriage and totalitarianism: As analysts running the gamut from Hannah Arendt to Leszek Kolakowski understood, modern totalitarian systems were, at bottom, attempts to remake reality by redefining reality and remaking human beings in the process. Coercive state power was essential to this process, because reality doesn’t yield easily to remaking, and neither do people. In the lands Communism tried to remake, the human instinct for justice — justice that is rooted in reality rather than ephemeral opinion — was too strong to change the way tastemakers change fashions in the arts. Men and women had to be coerced into accepting, howeve...