Where Will Same-Sex Unions Lead Us?
by Sean Fitzpatrick
Listening to arguments by Theodore Olson,
the lawyer challenging Proposition 8, Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy said this: “You’re asking for us to go into uncharted waters,
and you can play with that metaphor. There’s a wonderful destination or
there’s a cliff.”
Last month the United States Supreme Court heard two cases
challenging the oldest human institution next to gardening—marriage. The
court is to rule whether constitutional equal protection should extend
to same-sex unions and dub them “marriage.” The significance of this
ruling is that the precedent it sets will be irrevocable. If the Supreme
Court constitutionalizes a right to so-called same-sex marriages, it
will be a point of no return.
Will this finality be the result of triumphant victory or terminal
velocity? Will it be a wonderful destination somewhere over the rainbow?
Or a cliff?
Perhaps we can get a sense of what lays ahead—a paradise or a
precipice—by looking back at America’s infamous track record of
redefining fundamentals:
Sean Fitzpatrick is a native of Ottawa, Canada, and a graduate of Thomas
Aquinas College, CA. He taught literature, mythology, and poetry for
ten years at St. Gregory’s Academy, and is now working for the Clairvaux
Institute to found a new school in the classical tradition. Mr.
Fitzpatrick is a children’s book illustrator and an aspiring writer. He
lives in Scranton, PA with his wife, Sophie, and four children.
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