Since I’ve already written that polygamy – regardless of how weird it is – is not something that demands government intervention, you won’t be surprised that I also think that gay marriage is a non-issue.
I don’t care if two guys want to get together. I don’t care if some religion (or some other group) wants to sanction their union, and I don’t care if they want to call it marriage, or make up some new word.
But I also don’t care if some churches don’t want to sanction same-sex unions. And I don’t care if some religious people don’t want to give approval to such relationships.
The good thing about freedom is that there is room for diversity. We all don’t have to be the same and think the same.
Unless, of course, government is involved. Then private differences become policy disputes.
This is why I urged non-intervention in this CNN discussion about whether local governments should discriminate against a restaurant chain merely because the top executive has religious beliefs that irk some politicians.
Some of these local politicians are nothing but Chavez-style thugs, willing to use government coercion for arbitrary and capricious reasons. I hope my disdain was apparent in the interview.
P.S. Just to show I’m consistent, here’s my post urging that Bush’s pro-marriage program be defunded.
P.P.S. And for those who appreciate humor, there are good gay marriage one-liners among the rest of the jokes you can peruse here, here, and here.