Marriage is for having kids, right?
Same-sex marriage can’t be stopped by courts
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: March 26
To see the future of gay marriage, you didn’t have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue.
You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court and gaze upon the sea of rainbow flags and the signs demanding marriage equality. A thousand or more demonstrators were in this festival, chanting and cheering the gay-rights speakers — crowding out the few dozen opponents of gay marriage who stood, sullen and surrounded, on the other side of First Street NE.
Only nine states and the District of Columbia allow gay marriage, and the majority of Americans favoring gay marriage is a narrow one, but there can be no mistaking which side has the energy. The most the Supreme Court can do is slow the inevitable march toward an idea whose time has come.
Inside the courthouse, Justice Antonin Scalia led a rearguard action among his conservative colleagues, who attempted to establish that traditional marriage is distinct because of its procreative potential — a quaint notion in this era of adoption and artificial fertility.
(More here.)
To see the future of gay marriage, you didn’t have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue.
You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court and gaze upon the sea of rainbow flags and the signs demanding marriage equality. A thousand or more demonstrators were in this festival, chanting and cheering the gay-rights speakers — crowding out the few dozen opponents of gay marriage who stood, sullen and surrounded, on the other side of First Street NE.
Only nine states and the District of Columbia allow gay marriage, and the majority of Americans favoring gay marriage is a narrow one, but there can be no mistaking which side has the energy. The most the Supreme Court can do is slow the inevitable march toward an idea whose time has come.
Inside the courthouse, Justice Antonin Scalia led a rearguard action among his conservative colleagues, who attempted to establish that traditional marriage is distinct because of its procreative potential — a quaint notion in this era of adoption and artificial fertility.
(More here.)
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