I agree wholeheartedly with Scalia’s dissent of SCOTUS striking down DOMA - it’s not that I necessarily oppose gay marriage per se [although in general I do but for reasons very different from most] - it’s that I reject with great indignation the high handed way it is being imposed on me as if to disagree with the concept were an insult to humanity, as if only a low minded bigot could possibly object - this attitude of disdain for dissent manifests the pronounced tyrannical tendencies of modern liberalism and it is a disturbing thing to see - this intolerance in the name of tolerance, this shutting down of free speech, shaming it down, in the name of an ersatz freedom. Modern liberalism as espoused by this clerisy of conformity shares virtually nothing in common with the true liberalism wrought from old world oppressions by men like Locke and Hume and the founders of this country.
[see also John Yoo here who says pretty much what I would have said if I were a constitutional scholar - in essence, I'm not necessarily against gay marriage, I'm very much against the way it is being imposed under the moral absolutism of the new left - the same ideological cloistering that dictates that if you oppose Obama you must be a racist, if you oppose amnesty for illegals it must be because you're a racist, if you oppose universal healthcare it must be because you're a heartless hater of the poor, if you oppose tax increases you must be an evil plutocrat, if you oppsoe gay marriage it must be because you're an unevolved, knuckle dragging, mean spirited brute etc etc etc... and exactly how dangerous is it that the Supreme Court has now essentially codified this tyranny of left wing moralism into law, has codified forever the uber liberal belief that if you oppose gay marriage there's obviously something wrong with you? SCOTUS has dictated that exercise of a free conscience is flawed unless it reveals proper fealty to specific agendas - how long before failure to adopt Obamacare will be considered grounds for judging you an enemy of the state?]
