New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law last night that legalized same sex marriage in New York. The Bill passed the state Senate 33-29, with a number of Republicans changing their vote from two years ago in order to neuter marriage.
This makes the sixth state which has legalized same sex marriage, through legal fiat or, in this case, through legislative action.
This is the same Senate about which New York Senator Tom Duane, the only openly gay state senator, said "was a combination of 'a homophobic cesspool Senate' that is 'filled with people lacking courage.'" (New York Daily News) I guess even the Republicans got tired of the name calling and caved into political expediency.
The decision of the New York Legislature deals another blow to the legal, political, and social structure of the United States.
Gay ideology of same sex marriage is ultimately not a legal question, although it is certainly expressed in the legal world through identity politics. Rather, gay ideology is a battle for the definition of what is moral within society. "Gay marriage" is merely an attempt, not at equality, fairness, or even family, but it is an attempt at establishing a political identity based on sexual preference. While the question of harm may not affect the individual per se, the aspect of harm does threaten the more nebulous realm of such basic societal elements as family or the institution of marriage.
Systems which ultimately tear at the "fabric of society" (as Edmund Burke put it about 250 years ago) all have similar features, related to the utopian systems of collectivism or progressivism. Such systems attempt to replace true moral principles with state-imposed morality. The founders of the US understood the problem of imposing moral values when they adopted the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. The founders understood the dangers of a government enforcing the ideals of religion, as well as enforcing the ideals of any particular group. Hence the 1st Amendment guarantees individual free speech and the free expression of religion. Since the founding of the US, we've seen examples of governments which impose the state's version of morality. These have inevitably turned into statist governments such as exist throughout Europe today, and sometimes turned into highly destructive political systems such as Communism and National Socialism.
We must each as ourselves. Are we as a nation really willing to let gay ideology dictate state-imposed morality? Apparently the New York legislature thinks so.
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