{"id":2348,"date":"2010-08-05T20:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-08-05T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:09:05","slug":"the_gay_marriag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Marriage Court Decision as Roe v Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I could be excited about the decision – it does give me what I want<\/a> – but I’m not.<\/p>\n

The lawyers are all over the tactical issues (is the decision too monolithic? Will it risk having a conservative Supreme Court establish precedents that will make achieving gay marriage harder?); let me take one social\/political one on.<\/p>\n

I don’t want this to be Roe v. Wade<\/i>. That decision arguably ‘settled’ the abortion issue, but in reality, it pulled a half-baked cake out of the oven and put it in front of the polity.<\/p>\n

The law and social values must interact closely; at times each tugs the other forward or backward. Where they move in rough concert we get massive, successful social changes – suffrage, civil rights, improved rights for women. I tend to think that Roe v. Wade pulled them a little too far apart – which is why the issue of abortion remains so curdled and poisonous today.<\/p>\n

I want gay marriage to happen, and faster, please. But once it happens, I want it to be widely accepted – a tranquil part of our social order, not a scab that everyone keeps picking at.<\/p>\n

So yes, I’m happy that the court has made a decision for marriage. And I’m also sad that they have, because this needs to come from the political process, not the courts.
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Armed Liberal wants gay marriage – but wants it to happen politically, not judicially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}