My Thoughts on the Gay Marriage Cases Before the SCOTUS (originally posted on facebook 4/3/2013)

I have listened to both recordings of the Supreme Court cases dealing with gay marriage and despite attempts to rationally argue against gay marriage it comes down to one thing: the gays are not worthy. If you argue that marriage goes back to the dinosaurs and has always been one thing and if we change it who knows what the consequences will be, you are arguing that gays have the ability, by mere proximity, to do lasting harm. If you argue that marriage is a pillar of society and brings untold benefits, tangible and intangible to the people who are in them, you are arguing that gay people don't deserve them. The only argument that I heard during the cases is that marriage is so important, too important in fact, to share with the gays, because...?

Listening to the arguments of the anti-gay marriage side, I was struck by the weakness of their arguments. At the Supreme Court, where logic and reason are valued, and where justices are skeptical of moral arguments and deference to tradition, the other arguments were weak and easily countered, sometimes comically so. But for me the beauty is that these cases aren't between a large heterosexual majority vs a small homosexual minority. This is a case of a large and growing majority of justice-minded individuals vs a shrinking minority of dinosaurs.