The Supreme Court's Diktat on Marriage

I was on vacation all last week. Thankfully, I was able to avoid the internet most of the time. I heard about the Supreme Court’s edict on marriage in passing, during a layover at JFK Airport yesterday.

Also yesterday, the Federalist published my article “Fifteen Reasons Why Marriage Equality is about Neither Marriage Nor Equality.” It’s my little compendium of overlooked realities and my expectations for what the future holds. In short, we can expect the State to meddle a lot more heavily in all of our personal relationships as a result of this ruling.

No doubt the Court’s action is a major watershed moment in the transformation of American law. But for those of us who have been pondering the same sex marriage trend line for about 20 years, this whimsical ruling comes as no surprise.

That’s not only because of the abuses of power by the Judicial branch (especially the corrupt nature of Justice Kennedy and similar infections in Justice Roberts) but mostly because there’s been too much brokenness in society — all around us — to sustain laws that protect family stability. Consider how Roe v. Wade dictated to all of us that the State must regard all unborn children as completely non-human. This knowledge alone doubtless has damaged the psyches of many children growing up post-Roe. Consider also how no-fault divorce allows children’s homes to be busted up at whim, forcing them to do the shuttling, forcing them to put up or shut up. And consider how the epidemic of fatherlessness has broken the lives of youth. With artificial reproductive technologies and same sex marriage, the law can now impose by design both fatherlessness and motherlessness on children. In the end, it looks and feels not only like a war waged against the intact, organic family, but also against all personal relationships. After all, the family is the default starting point for building true community.

All of these developments have created a heightened sense of separation anxiety and profound loneliness in society. K12 and college education have piled on, saturating us with political correctness and the cultivation of ignorance, which further prevents anyone from building relationships that might help them learn how to navigate through all of this confusion. This has softened the ground for the social engineering that’s been taking place under the convenient mask of “marriage equality.” We really need first to look with fresh eyes at all of the dismantling and machinations that lay behind us before we can meet the challenges ahead. The task is daunting, but it all comes with the territory of our human condition. (I hope to write more on this in the future.)

Let’s also not forget that central planners have always targeted the organic family. Utopians regard family bonds of loyalty as a thorn in their side and an obstacle to building a centralized state. Totalitarians always demand state loyalty above any other kind. This may be a hard pill to swallow, but it’s true. History is filled with examples.

So, at the end of my “15 Reasons” piece linked above, I end with the reasonable question: “What will the authorities decide to do to dissenters?” We should persist in asking them this question directly, as much as possible.