Gay marriage ‘rights’
Thought this was a well-expressed assessment of the gay marriage issue:
Why then do gay activists want their options restricted by marriage laws, when they can make their own contracts with their own provisions and hold whatever kinds of ceremony they want to celebrate it?
The issue is not individual rights. What the activists are seeking is official social approval of their lifestyle. But this is the antithesis of equal rights.
If you have a right to someone else's approval, then they do not have a right to their own opinions and values. You cannot say that what ‘consenting adults’ do in private is nobody else's business and then turn around and say that others are bound to put their seal of approval on it.
Thomas Sowell,