Standing Up to the Ruling Class

If you’re wondering what Americans can do as our ruling class sets about enforcing its redefinition of marriage, start by looking back at what it did to the citizens of Indiana when their legislature raised the possibility that someone might object to joining in celebrations of homosexual marriage. --Support for homosexual unions was incidental to the insistence of the likeminded folks atop society’s commanding heights on punishing Indiana. What incurs their ire has less to do with any substantive matter than with the American people’s resistance to honoring their fantasies. These fantasies can be reversed without notice. (Obama opposed homosexual marriage until 2013.) But dissenting from any of them — whether about race, or sex, or science, or anything else — risks ostracism and disqualification from earning a living.

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RS: Marriage as Purposeful Institution

RED STATE, by Ryan T. Anderson
When a baby is born, a mother always is nearby. The question is whether a father will be involved in the life of that child and, if so, for how long. ✧ Marriage increases the odds that a man will be committed to both the children that he helps create and to the woman with whom he does so. ✧ The recent oral arguments at the Supreme Court highlighted this and other key questions about redefining marriage as we’ve always understood it in America. That is, marriage is the union of a man and woman as husband and wife to provide any children of that union with a father and a mother. Read more including thoughts from the justices at Red State... Read More......