When did the Creator indicate that among these rights was for homosexuals to have their unions recognized as marriages? The author of that declaration, Thomas Jefferson, equated homosexual acts with rape and wrote that male homosexuals (they used the term sodomites in that time) should be castrated and lesbians should have a hole cut into their noses.
Undeniably, homosexuals have the same constitutional rights of free speech, peaceable assembly and trial by jury. But what the judge has done is declare the life choices and lifestyles of gays and lesbians to be equal to the life choice of married men and women. This is nothing but Walker’s personal opinion.
But he is declaring it to be the only rational conclusion that can be reached. And having reached it, he has seized upon a phrase in the 14th amendment, ‘equal protection,’ distorted its meaning and dictated that this means his view and his values henceforth are the law in California, the voters be damned.
And what the judge dismisses and rejects as irrational is a conviction rooted in the history of the human race, biblical truth, natural law and basic common sense. For, in recent decades, male homosexuality has been linked to enteric diseases, hepatitis, AIDS and early death. Historically, from the late Roman Empire to Weimar, flagrant homosexuality has been associated with sick societies, decadent cultures and dying civilizations. Today would appear to be no exception.
– Christian-nationalist racist and homophobe Pat Buchanan, letting his freak flag fly, insulting gay people with the tired old lie that they are less healthy than straight people, rewriting history to suggest that openness toward homosexuality was the cause of the collapse of various empires, suggesting that Bible verses should be used as evidence in court, asserting that some civil rights of gay people are not covered under the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and offering as justification for suppressing gay rights the 18th-century attitudes towards sex of Thomas Jefferson, who notoriously had sexual relations with a woman he kept enslaved, which, by definition, is rape — all as a rationale for restricting gays’ right to marry.
Buchanan is his own worst enemy. At one time (and even still) he makes some convincing arguments concerning certain subjects, but then shoots himself in the foot with his racist and hateful rantings. I guess that’s a good thing tho, for we know him for what and who he truly is.