(EURWEB) Harry Jackson Jr. writes:
The institution of marriage is unique. It is the one institution that binds women and men together to form a family, and this serves broad societal purposes.
In California, a U.S. District Court Judge last week overturned Proposition 8, the California Marriage Protection Act. It was passed in November 2008 by California voters to recognize “only marriage between a man and a woman.”
The majority of Californians, including two-thirds of the state’s black voters, have just had their core civil right — the right to vote — stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state’s people.
The implicit comparison Judge Vaughn Walker made between racism and opposition to same-sex marriage is particularly offensive to me and to all who remember the reality of Jim Crow. It is not bigotry, it is biology that discriminates between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples.
A marriage requires a husband and a wife, because these unions are necessary to make new life and connect children to their mother and father. Judge Walker’s decision will not stand the test of time and history. Congress and the Supreme Court must act to protect all Americans’ right to vote for marriage.
