“Gay Marriage”

Here is an article by Justin Raimondo at Taki's Magazine on the issue of gay marriage. There are some interesting points in it. (For those that do not know, Mr. Raimondo is a homosexual.)

One tangent area that might merit briefly commenting on, which I have been recently pondering about, is the egalitarian ideology that is within the standpoint that supports the notion of "gay marriage." More precisely, the idea that homosexual or gay coupling is in actual fact equivalent and part and parcel to ordinary heterosexual marriage. It is not that those who are against the "gay lifestyle" think that it will (somehow) turn heterosexuals, who obviously fill the majority of the public, towards such a lifestyle. Instead the opposition is against, at least in part, the idea and practice of conformity, leveling, uniformity, etc. This attitude is one of an un-discriminating mind; which invites moral relativism and nihilism. Perceiving all lifestyles being the same and, hence, equal to each other. It invites the undermining belief that moral standards and norms don't exist. But, of course, generally this kind of collectivist (equality) concept needs the collective State to back it up.

It is then no surprise or shock that so many social and cultural egalitarian pseudo-libertarians support the State getting involved in the issue. Today "the sum total of the gay agenda," says Jeffrey Tucker in this LRC article, "involves foisting more government on society and more intervention in free enterprise."

Now whatever position an individual libertarian may have on the gay lifestyle, the morality thereof, and marriage, it clearly is no business of the State. And the definition of what marriage is is not something to be imposed on the public via government fiat. (I being somewhat of a "traditionalist" on what marriage is, I find it silly [and, frankly, immoral] to radically redefine this private institution. But I'll save that discussion for another time.)