Ted Olsen Fails to Talks about the Dark Side of Rights

Ted Olsen in Newsweek has a article called The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage

There is nothing really new under the sun here.

Mr Olsen , like others, again fails to explore the "Dark Side "of rights. I don't expect him too. He is advocating for his side.

He says of course that no one has the right to force their religious or moral choices on people. Except that is exactly what will happen with this.

He knows this, gay marriage advocates know it, that is why they are demanding this "Fundamental right".

As I have always said the people that are advocating and demanding gay marriage understand the logic and power of morals. They very much understood what Lincoln understood. That is if something is a "right" than all things that oppose it are wrong and can be swept away.

So on one hand Gay marriage advocates say your morality has nothing and can have nothing to do with their choice in marriage. However these same forces will have no problem then making sweeping moral judgments backed up by the sanction of law against those that oppose gay marriage or the gay lifestyle that has now been enshrined and protected as a Fundamental RIGHT ,

We see this happening now. Law Firms and other litigation prone business will start first. They will cut off the problem at the beginning and just not hire people that object to homosexuality or lets say are too "religious".

The "Academy" will start this too (in fact they have already started) but will feel compelled to redouble their efforts since this is now a "Fundamental Right" and the highest law of the land.

Sex education classes where one can't easily withdraw your kid from from will of course start traching the rightness and equality of homosexual lifestyle.

We can see this coming into custody cases as to best interest of the child as a Judge will feel compelled to put the Child with a person that is not so "bigoted" against a class of people that have a fundamental right.

Further new laws will come into effect as to housing discrimination, job place discriminaton, hostile work environment etc etc

This is the natural order of things.

In effect People that have deep objections to the homosexual lifestyle, whether based on religious reasoning or not, will in effect be marginilized and at the very least have to learn to keep very very quiet.

So How does Gay marriage effect you? Where perhaps a good bit.

Gay rights advocates know very much what they are doing here in having a anchor in the law like this.

One problem I think is the Libertarian mindset or how more to the point how that is taken advantage of by savvy people.

Libertarians on the conservative side say LIVE AND LET LIVE. Get the Government out. Let people do what they want. Let us all decide whom we wish to contract with, associate with and on the flip side who we don't want to associate with and contract with.

Now in the land of theory perhaps all this would be workable.

EXCEPT time after time the other side is not going to be happy with LIVE AND LET LIVE!! People will find these Libertarian ideals in the real world will offer no protections to people in the above scenario. Lets take an example.

Olsen brings up the old LOVING case (interracial marriage) which to be honest I think is not related to all this. However he does not bring up the famous Bob Jones College case where the Supreme Court removed the college's tax exemption because it forbid its students date people of other races.

The Court said this was against the Public Policy of the United States!! What? Where was this at!!! Do we take away the NEW YORK TIMES POSTAL PRIVILEGES if they run Personal ads SWF desires SWM!!

But they still did it. Now one could agree that the court was right. That Bob Jones College was practicing a wrong and it should be helped to be swept away. In fact as I sort tend toward the natural law I really don't find this objectionable in some ways. Though I find that prudence demands that such a move might be more dangerous as to our political structure.

Well if you are an orthodox Catholic, or Jew or just thinks gay sex is wrong expect to be put in the same category as people that don't think the "races" should mix and to receive that public and legal sanction.

When something is called a Fundamental right a whole new regime of things(or laws) is brought in to promote and protect that right. It is natural.

I respect what the gay rights people are doing. THEY GET IT!!! THEY UNDERSTAND HOW ALL THIS WORKS . Sadly Catholics that should have picked up some grounding in Natural law and the logic and power of morals and how it relates to law pretty much don't.