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21 May 2008 08:23 am

D'Souza On Marriage

Of all the offensive things to be said about marriage rights, this somehow manages to get under my skin:

In issuing its ruling the California court appealed to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The basic logic is that gays have a right to be treated like everyone else. But just like everyone else, gays do have the right to marry. They have the right to marry adult members of the opposite sex!

Does Dinesh think it's a good thing for gay men to marry straight women, to lie to them, corrupt their marriages, undermine the integrity of their bond and eventually, as so often happens, leave their wives with a sense of betrayal and loss? Does he really think this is a good idea? Would he like it, for that matter, if I told him he only had a right to marry another man? Would he not be offended? The sad thing is that this exact argument was used by those opposed to inter-racial marriage. Blacks can marry, they said. They just have to marry another colored person. And if those people had had their way, Dinesh's own inter-racial marriage would have been illegal. How soon they kick the ladder from beneath them.

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