[lbo-talk] I hate Lambda Legal and the LA Times

[Joseph Catron]

"California cannot get out of the marriage business and leave it up to
churches and other groups because, in the state Supreme Court's words,
we need some form of 'official government sanction' of the family
unit,'" writes Jon W. Davidson, the legal director of Lambda Legal.
"Changing this would be an extreme strategy undertaken solely to keep
same-sex couples from marriage. While racism is quite different, this
purported 'solution' in some ways is reminiscent of what some saw as a
way of getting around integration. In some Southern cities, public
parks and swimming pools were closed altogether rather than allow
African Americans in."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-lavy-davidson22-2008may22,0,5335043.story

I suppose it could have been worse.  Comparing the remote possibility
of the state removing itself from the business of chartering families
and busying itself with actual matters of public consequence to, say,
the Holocaust, would have been marginally more hysterical than Massive
Resistance.

Meanwhile, the Times' editorial feature "Why regulate marriage at
all?" matches two contending columns - both of which agree that it's
absolutely necessary.  The possibility that families might not need
"official government sanction" is apparently beyond Times parameters
for polite debate.

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
mægen lytlað."