The ability for gay people to marry, as prescribed by the law, is not as simple as we all think. The slippers we head down after gay marriage has become law is quite simple. Where does it end?
By that, I mean which group will we allow to marry next? Apparently, I am not the only one that thinks this way becuase in her op-ed in the New York Times on June 26, 2011 Maureen Dowd quoted Archbishop Dolan of New York as saying the following to The National Catholic Register, “You think it’s going to stop with this? You think now bigamists are going to want their rights to marry? You think somebody that wants to marry his sister is going to now say, ‘I have a right’? I mean, it’s the same principle, isn’t it?”
Dolan is right once a bill becomes law, that it sets a precedent for other actions thereafter. This is the same reason why the NRA does not want to ban the sale of assault rifles. Once banned, the law is in place and it sets the precedent for other frivolous laws to pass against the NRA and Second Amendment.
Similarly, this is what will happen now with all of these new gay marriage was coming into place in different states. How will be states argue against what Archbishop Dolan and I feel. Not only do we feel this way, but so do a majority of Americans. Apparently our country has now become a country of the minority not the majority.
I was brought up in a country where majority rules. Now, for some reason the minority, especially the independent voter, get special and favorable treatment.
Why do you think our government and demographers have lumped together all people who speak Spanish. Think of all the names we’ve called Spanish-speaking people. First, they were called Spanish. Then we call them Hispanics. Now we call the Latinas and Latinos. Yet, each Hispanic culture is as diverse as the country from which that group emanates.
Yet, in order to have a voting block, we have lumped together a proud group of people. It seems, that we are now doing that would gays and lesbians. In order to win their votes, states and governments are allowing that group to legally marry. It seems, that the gay community and Maureen Dowd feel they must act in the following manner, “one thing gays have to do, after all, is declare who they are at all costs.”
I say why must they declare who they are. Why not just being American? Isn’t that enough?
