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Take A Deep Breath - The American Marriage Is Safe And Well
By Arthur Bruzzone (07/01/03)
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Lawrence et al v. Texas has caused an embarrassing overreaction from our leading conservative pundits and talk show impresarios. Political savvy gay activists have instead put the court's ruling on state sodomy laws into proper perspective. It was just that.
If states want to outlaw what it believes is deviant behavior - bestiality, incest, pedophilia - it can't discriminate. In other words, while the nation is grappling with terrorism and overbearing medical expenses, the court was forced to rule on a sexual act, not a social institution.
It's a huge leap to interpret the ruling as a step towards redefining marriage. Keep this in mind, 35 states have specific definitions of marriage, including the great liberal state of California. In California, the campaign for Proposition 22, the definition of marriage act, was a coalition of individuals and organizations. The voters of California agreed by over 61%, in 53 of California's 58 counties. In the remaining 15 states, six have essentially passed similar marriage definition acts but require procedural work to complete the task. In sum, 42 states have exercised their right to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
That doesn't mean that there isn't cause for concern.
There are two facets of the definition of marriage movement. One is the definition, which has been clearly stated in a majority of states. The other is how to treat those who have been 'married' in states that may enact same-sex marriages. Each state must specify how it will recognize marriages performed outside the state that do not me meet the one man-one woman definition in order to be recognized by the state.
Second, the Supreme Court is moving closer to protecting the act of marriage as a fundamental human right. The court in ruling against the prohibition of interracial marriages hinted that the right to marry is a fundamental human right which can't be abridged by the state. In its ruling overturning a Virginia law prohibiting interracial marriages, the court said: "Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival...To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law." (Interracial marriages now account for around 1.5 million of the marriages in the U.S. Those numbers are still relatively low in comparison to the total number of U.S. marriages.)
But here too it comes down to the definition of marriage. By using arguments of the absurd, one cannot allow all possible combinations of this fundamental right. Marriage between relatives, marriage between a human and a pet, marriage of one man and several women or visa versa, all cannot be considered 'basic civil rights of man.'
Let's take marriage between related individuals, say, for example, cousins. I suggest you visit the site www.cousincouples.com. From their principles page, "we celebrate the success of loving, supportive relationships between consenting adults. We believe that the common prejudice against cousin relationships and marriages is wrong." Well, only 31 states have statutes prohibiting marriage between couples who are cousins. But as they point out, two thirds of the U.S. population can marry their cousins with certain restrictions. But nearly 56% of the U.S. population live in states that have unrestricted freedom to marry their cousins! Incidentally they point out that Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest serving US president in history married his cousin (not a first cousin, however they shared the same last name).
It's only one example of bending of the definition of marriage; but in this case, still it's a matter of a man and woman exercising their right to marry..their cousin. Bending the definition of marriage is one thing, transforming the definition of marriage is something far greater and more difficult for those who are advocating same-sex 'marriages.'
Further, the efforts to exact this redefinition is largely symbolic. Returning to California, despite the enacting of domestic partners legislation which extends certain rights to same sex couples (who are not 'married',) only 20,000 couples in a state of 32,000,000 people have registered as domestic partners.
In the end, despite some bending, the American marriage is secured. At the same time, alternative life styles have also been secured by the recent Supreme Court ruling. Such is the case of a pluralistic and diverse society.
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Arthur Bruzzone is a well known San Francisco Bay Area political media
commentator, an award- winning public affairs TV producer, talk show host,
and served four years as Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party. He
has written over 150 political articles for national and regional media, and
has appeared or commented on political issues for American, European, and
Asian television and radio networks.
Art Bruzzone has been published in local, state, and national journals
including the Wall Street Journal. He's been a regular online columnist at
AmericanDaily.com, previously featured columnist at Townhall.com and other
gateway sites. He is editor of Counterviews.com.
Media Appearances include guest or commentator on major national network
news programs, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN-TV, BBC-TV, French TV, local
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KSFO-AM, San Francisco. He's been a Panelist or guest covering national,
state-local, and environmental issues. Bruzzone has been quoted in the NY
Times, LA Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and on urban policy,
international politics, and urban environmentalism
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Gate University, and a MA in Philosophy from CUA, Washington, DC.
He has served as State Commissioner on the Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, Chair of San Francisco Republican Party, and Vice Chair of the
Count Chairs Association of the California Republican Party.
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