Jul 20, 2009 by Jenny
Crazy Boies.
David Boies, one of the attorneys who brought the federal lawsuit to overturn California’s Prop. 8, argues his case in an opinion piece in today’s WSJ.
It’s always intriguing when someone who is an expert in policy denies the obvious, but Boies claims that there is no legitimate state policy underlying the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage. It’s not obvious, apparently, that marriage is The. Social. Institution. most responsible for the flourishing of the human species for the few thousand years of civilization for which we have record.
He also writes that the “occasional suggestion that marriages between people of different sexes may somehow be threatened by marriages of people of the same sex does not withstand discussion.”
He’s right—it doesn’t withstand discussion; it’s a tiresome argument and a ridiculous suggestion. Our opposition to redefining marriage goes way beyond any one couple’s relationship—heterosexual or homosexual. We are concerned at the prospect of generations raised in a world in which we’ve decided that the intentional detachment of children from the mother and father who together made them is good, just and lawful.
As is true of others, Boies promotes the redefinition of marriage to meet a need for which it is entirely unsuited—the affirmation of gay and lesbian relationships. The majority of Americans resist the redefinition of marriage not to hurt individuals or their relationships, but to support the one family structure which inherently provides our most flourishing family structure for children.
More later perhaps about marriage as “figurative and literal gay-bashing.”
