marriage: right, privilege, or sacrament?
i was surprised at the absence of widespread editorializing when california legalized same-sex marriage this week, but maybe people are just tired of the ongoing back-and-forth battle that is bound to be another drawn out legal process. i’ve been told on numerous occasions that the push for LGBT rights in the US is one of the primary civil rights issues remaining today, and i do often wonder how history will look back at our cultural engagement with the complexity of it all. in time, will we scoff at our intolerance (as we do when we consider that interracial marriage was still largely illegal in the US until 1967), or will we stand by “traditional” values as the bedrock of our moral foundation? (more…)
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