Gay marriage: just do it, and move on
posted 3-26-2013 5:40 p.m.

 
I said my bit on this subject seven years ago, on this very blog, figuring I'd said all I had to say: just allow gays legal unions with all rights attendant for marriage, promote social stability that way, then move on to bigger issues — like fixing the economy and getting our troops out of the Middle East. I'd be perfectly fine with letting homosexuals and lesbians marry; it doesn't affect me in the least, and I don't see a good reason to deny them that right. Now that the first of the gay marriage cases have reached the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps it's time to revisit the subject. Besides, I'm deeply tired of all the hyperbolic conservative blathering on the subject. Time for a definitive smackdown.

If public opinion polls are to be believed, the balance has shifted ever so slightly towards sanity: more Americans would approve of gay marriage than disapprove, and most would like the subject settled. I'm all for that. The shrill minority keeps insisting that recognizing marriages between consenting adults of the same gender is somehow grossly, intrinsically destructive to all marriages everywhere; that's just stupid. They rant as if their own marriages were somehow damaged by the marriages of others. That's silly. And this conversation has been coming for a long time.