The impending case in US District Court on California's Proposition 8 is approaching. I was reminded by the images of Cindy McCain posing with her daughter Meghan in support of overturning the referendum. Advocates of same-sex marriage tend to portray opponents thereof as homophobic, religiously overzealous or oppressive. Conversely objections are religious, moral, or social in nature. Same-sex marriage is portrayed by the MSM as a nationwide civil-rights issue. But it isn't. It is a perfect illustration of the perils of large, centrally planned social programs from a national government.Consider the following: Marriage originated as a religious institution. It was a way of binding two people together for the common purpose of raising offspring, providing a nuclear environment in which to raise children according to the beliefs of the parents and the community to which they belonged. With the advent of the code of law (long before the founding of the US), marriage soon defined the...(Read Full Post)