I find myself
confused over the current state of affairs in the country over gay rights,
particularly the right to marry.
It seems that those
that support the LGBT community are running high on emotion. Which is fine for on the other side of the
coin those against the gay community are running strong on emotion also.
The gay community
does not fall under a protected class like blacks and women, people with
disabilities such as blindness or deafness where they have no choice being what
they are. Also protected classes that
seem a bit more gray, but has the force of law anyway, is religious people and
pregnant women because they do have a choice to be what they are.
Then logically the
gay community would not be protected as they do have a choice to exhibit their
sexual preference in whatever manner they want.
Yet, they could become protected because other groups of choice have protections. So, what would be the difference? As it turns
out I think the difference is huge.
I think where it all
goes awry for the people is law makers and courts taking on the task of
legislating abhorrent and abnormal behavior as being normal. Putting religion aside for a moment and just
looking at the nature of the world it is not populated by homosexual
unions. Even at the level of
recreational sex the parts do not fit together properly. To be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual
is not normal by any standard that can be held up outside their own
community. Thus it begs the question why
are we at this point with the latest Supreme Court ruling?
I think basically it
is because gays are human too. They have
been the brunt of jokes and hostile emotion and actions for centuries and as
people regardless of their physical miswiring they are stuck with they deserve
respect and equal rights as much as another person in so long as they behave
normally. To determine what is normal,
let nature be our guide coupled with the social norms of the society the gays
reside in.
Using that as a
guidepost then should gays be permitted to marry? I think yes.
However, it isn't the place for the federal government to intervene. Where the Supreme Court got it wrong is that
the constitution does not support abhorrent and abnormal behavior in any
fashion. A left leaning activist court
cannot normalize gay behavior from the bench anymore than the court in the
1850s ruling that black people are property of their white masters and runaways
have to returned when caught could keep that law.
Then where would the
right for gays to marry come from? It
has to be the states. The argument as to
people can't help who they fall in love with doesn't hold much water, however
if a same sex couple wishes to align their life paths together and share
interests and support to one another forsaking traditional marriage they ought
to have the same protections of health care,
beneficiary rights as any other human contract.
Where the gay
community missteps is in the flaunting their abnormal sexuality in the face of
those operating in the social norm. The
social norm for the United States is heterosexual marriage between man and
woman resulting most times in off spring and grandchildren and great
grandchildren who in turn continues the norm.
What is going to
happen now is over the next decade normal people are going to push back hard
and the gay community is going to go back into the closet. Laws that put legal protections for work and
such will be in place because it isn't right to restrict someone for their
sexual preference in so much as they behave normally. A supervisor that sees his worker parading
down the street banishing a black flag full of dildo pictures has every right
to dismiss the person as that isn't normal behavior.
The old adage, it
isn't wise to fool with Mother Nature is true.
That which isn't aligned with nature will not endure.
