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Equality: One Small Step at a Time
The right of same-sex couples to marry could not be less relevant to my life, but I cannot help but notice our apparent inability to learn from past experience as a nation. Simultaneously with the historic election of the first black U.S. president, voters in California passed Proposition 8 as part of a nationwide "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) initiative introduced by the Bush administration that has evolved into a series of attempts to oppose same-sex marriage through legislation and state constitutional amendments (Edwards, Wattenberg, & Lineberry, 2009). There is tremendous irony in the extremely slow and largely incremental pattern of social progress in recognizing the need to apply equality more benevolently. In principle, the long argument over the rights of same-sex couples is playing out in the identical rhetoric as was used to justify laws prohibiting miscegenation (interracial) marriage until after the Civil Rights era. In most cases, one could substitute the word "same-sex" for "interracial" marriage and read the same arguments in American newspapers that are now half a century old.
The Defense of...
One prominent opponent of same-sex marriage (Bennett, 1996) argues that marriage has always been defined universally restricted to male-female couples; that children are less well raised by same-sex parents; and that males are more promiscuous than women, and therefore, incapable of monogamy. Meanwhile, infidelity and divorce each affects more traditional marriages than not and many more traditional marriages are tremendously dysfunctional but maintained for external appearance and (inadvisably) for the benefit of children.
The Constitutional Issues
In the modern era, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment has been the primary source of the progress this nation has made in resolving long-term institutionalized inequality and racism (Edwards, Wattenberg, & Lineberry, 2009). Just last month, New York State recognized same-sex marriage rights and the 2009 state supreme court decision to…
References
Bennett, W.J. "Gay Marriage: Not a Very Good Idea." The Washington Post (May
21, 1996).
Edwards, G., Wattenberg, M., and Lineberry, R. (2009). Government in America: People,
Politics, and Policy. New York, NY: Longman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27marriage.html
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