A homosexual couple has sued the Stae over the ban in the Colorado Constitution on same sex marriages, claiming that civil unions are a lessor status than marriage even though the civil union law gives them access to all of the same legal protections that married couples enjoy. They say marriage has a long history of dignity, respect and recognitioin of the love two people have for each other, which is something that the more recent civil unions do not have.
Love is not something the State should be commenting on at all. Marriage, from the civil perspective, is the recognition of the existence of a legal contract between the parties involved and nothing more. It is not a comment on the dignity, respect and recognition of the love that is shared between two people, be they different sexes or the same sex.
As I noted at the time, what the General Assembly of Colorado and our governor should have done is replace the marriage certificate with one of civil union in all instances so that this type of suit could not be brought. But the intention of the "progressives" was never intended to place homosexuals on the same legal footing as heterosexuals, so this is not what was done. Government has no place in defining what a marriage is or is not. It is much more than the legal state of two people and the legal state is all that the government has any authority, or business for that matter, to recognize and comment on. The rest of what makes a marriage a marriage is not anything that the State should be involving itself in.
I think the Colorado Constitution will be overturned. I support homosexual marriage but I hate random judges overruling Colorado voters like they did California voters on Prop 8.
I think if Colorado voted again on repealing Prop 8, the state would do it, but it is easier for the Left to find a sympathetic judge.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
