On perhaps no cultural issue has the Right more clearly waved the white flag than it has on the issue of marriage. The National Organization for Marriage, which for years existed as the leading organization pushing back against the homosexual rights movement’s ahistorical revisionism and redefining of marriage, is now hard-pressed to galvanize a grassroots movement in favor of restoring conjugal marriage. Never mind that the ludicrous 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that bastardized the Fourteenth Amendment in an astonishing black-robed power grab to constitutionalize same-sex nuptials and impose it upon a divided citizenry, Obergefell v. Hodges, had all the jurisprudential heft of the infamous Dred Scott diktat. Rare is the social conservative, these days, who seems enthused about trying to chip away at Obergefell‘s (il)legal foundation; most pro-conjugal marriage social conservatives resist the temptation to go on the offensive and are instead content to defensively crouch and demand values-neutral pluralistic religious liberty “tolerance.”
But such a defensive posture is unwarranted and, indeed, ultimately unjustifiable. Much like our efforts to protect the unborn from Roe v. Wade‘s legal regime of state-sanctioned genocide of an entire sub-class of human beings, marriage as a socially defined one-man/one-woman institution is worth fighting for in both the cultural and legal arena. America was quite conscientiously founded under the natural law tradition, and there is no more natural biological fact than the reality that every child born in this Earth is born to one (non-trans) mother and one (non-trans) father. And to the extent there is nascent social science data on the question of outcomes for the children of heterosexual and homosexual parents, that data is, at best for the Left, a mixed bag. We will know much more in future decades, as our grand and godless social experiment in marriage revisionism plays out in real-time, but there is already no shortage of warning signs for the revisionists.
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