Young Conservative DESTROYS gay rights fascists
Actually not.
This is only a young conservative exhibiting his ignorance of the Constitution and its case law.
For example:
Marriage has, had, and always will have, by definition, a certain character and purpose; a character and purpose centered around, above all things, the family. Marriage is the foundation through which a thriving and lasting civilization sees to the propagation of itself. Human beings can only reproduce by means of heterosexuality, and this reality sets the heterosexual union apart. Marriage is meant to be the context in which this reproduction occurs.
Marriage is many things, but it is also this. And this can never be removed from it, no matter the direction of the political winds, or the motion of the shifting sands of public opinion.
Marriage and the family are dimensions of the same whole. They cannot be detached from one another. They, as a whole, as an institution, can only be weakened not erased or redefined. And so the campaign to protect and strengthen the institution was and is designed to do just that. It was never about legislating love or imposing intolerance or discriminating against gay people, or any other silly bumper sticker platitude.
Marriage is contract law, written by the states and administered by state courts; and same-sex couples are currently eligible to enter into marriage contracts, unchanged, and not redefined.
To deny same-sex couples access to marriage law theyre eligible to participate in, therefore, is indeed to discriminate against gay Americans, and to violate their 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the law.
And the ability to procreate is not a prerequisite for entering into marriage, as opposite-sex couples who are infertile are allowed to marry, and older opposite-sex couples where the wife has realized menopause are not compelled by the state to divorce.
Consequently, the young conservatives argument fails as just another manifestation of anger, ignorance, hate, and fear by the right.