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Hugh Hewitt

The proponents of gay marriage want to focus on the issue of the joining of same sex couples, but it is intellectually dishonest to pass go without paying 200 dollars to the process employed. It is a cultural coup, pure and simple: people with power using the power to dominate and impose a resolution rather than persuading majorities to their side. It is no different than any other coup at any other time, except that cultural elites favor the result. Though of course both hitching and Sullivan have been strong advocates of freedom and democracy around the globe, they are abandoning democracy now that it is inconvenient to their own agenda. When the mullahs in Iran found the election process dangerous to their goals, they simply changed the rules. Andrew Sullivan, especially, likes to equate opponents of gay marriage to “theocratic,” but on this issue, he is the one advocating and defending the destruction of the impediments to his agenda imposed by free and fair voting.

I said something similar here. Mr. Hewitt is far more eloquent, and is a nationally syndicated radio host as well. So, I’ll quote him.

The imposition of a radical agenda by civil disobedience and judicial fiat is just plain wrong under the American system. The Federal Defense of Marriage Act was passed in 1996. The California Defense of Marriage Act was passed, by voter initiative, in 2000. Where are the successful legal challenges to these laws? How many states have passed DOMA’s? Something like 36 or so. How many states allow same-sex marriage in some form? One. Where are the overwhelming voter campaigns to force our elected representatives to enact laws allowing same-sex marriage? They just don’t exist because the voters do not support the issue.

I have to wonder if this whole movement is led by the trial lawyers. Every single law and regulation that affects marriage will have to be challenged in court by same-sex married couples. If this had been done legislatively, appropriate changes would be made in the various laws. The way that this is being done, the laws are being ignored or cast aside. It’s gonna be a real mess. Mark my words…

As I said once:

Despite the passionate rhetoric, this is not a basic human rights issue. It is a money issue. Same-sex partnerships abound in the community. They just don’t have the civil recognition of their union, and the legal property rights that go along with that. There are ways around this; contracts and agreements of all sorts. Same-sex partnerships lack only the unplanned and unthinking legal enforcement of property rights that conventional marriages have. In other words, same-sex partners can solve most of their issues with pre-planning, and traditional couples can go along without any planning in the joyful knowledge that the state has provided a solution for them. Which, of course, they shouldn’t do, but, hey, if you are marrying your twelve year old first cousin…