PrintAugust 14, 2010
'Facts,' 'Values,' and the Redefinition of 'Marriage'
The ruling that overturned California's Proposition 8 last week is a significant step in America's descent into secularism. The decision builds a case for same-sex marriage by pitting objective "facts" against "private values," then dismissing values as a basis for law -- a favorite strategy in the secularist playbook. During the trial, the lawyers challenging Proposition 8 produced a parade of scholars and researchers -- psychologists, sociologists, historians, and political scientists from the nation's top universities -- who presented studies purporting to find that same-sex couples are equal in every way to opposite-sex couples. In the words of Judge Vaughn Walker, the expert testimony added up to "overwhelming evidence" that Proposition 8 violated same-sex couples' rights to due process and equal protection. Against that mountain of putative scientific facts stood nothing but a "moral view" that same-sex marriage is wrong -- a...(Read Full Article)
