Lexington KY opinion piece on gay marriage

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http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/opinion/7676951.htm

Gay marriage inevitable
State has no grounds to discriminate
By David French


During this election year, no cultural topic will be more hotly debated than the issue of gay marriage. Presidential candidates will debate the merits of a Federal Marriage Amendment (which would restrict the legal definition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman), and legal activists will continue to battle over the meaning and scope of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision.

These debates may raise funds and mobilize voters on both sides of the political aisle, but it will not alter the facts on the ground: Gay marriage is a current cultural reality, and its eventual legal recognition was nothing short of inevitable.



For those who believe gay marriage is morally wrong for Biblical or other religious reasons, this decision changes nothing. Churches can still speak out against sexual immorality and can still choose not to perform gay weddings. The gay couple down the street in no way makes our own straight marriage more difficult or challenging, nor can any decision of any court of law change the definition of marriage in the eyes of God.

In the days, weeks and months to come, we can expect to hear many conservative commentators decry the continuing decay of our culture. In the debate that follows -- and as accusations of intolerance and immorality fly between left and right -- remember that Christians and conservatives long ago met the real enemy of the sacred institution of marriage -- and we are that enemy.