Almost a year ago, Rebel Girl and the little guy spent the day outside the Laguna Hills Civic Center, handing out roses and congratulations to the first same sex couples married in Orange County. It was a glorious sun-drenched Southern California day. You can read all about it here.
Today, at 10 AM, the State Supreme Court will publish its Proposition 8 ruling which will affect the validity of those marriages - and the future of marriage equality in California.
Regardless of the outcome, supporters of marriage equality will gather at the Old Orange County Courthouse at 6 PM today for a peaceful rally and march.
The courthouse is located at 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd. (between N Broadway & Sycamore) in Santa Ana.
For more information, click here.
For the record, Red Emma and Rebel Girl tied the knot at that old courthouse, just the two of them, sans friends and family, one Friday in November, years and years ago. It was very romantic. She cried.
Rebel Girl hopes that some of you will come out this evening and march with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, students and family members.
Our family will be there.
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Oh well, there's always next year. And the beat goes on.
Here's a summary of an argument against same-sex marriage by Jeff Jordan (from his article "Contra Same-Sex Marriage").
Jordan sees three models of marriage in the current debate:
I. The Sacramental Model: God instituted marriage as a lifelong relationship between one man and one woman; marriage is the proper environment for sexuality, procreation, and the rearing of children; marriage and the family are basic units of society, and are necessary for social stability.
II. The Communional Model: marriage is the proper environment for sexuality, procreation, and the rearing of children; marriage and the family are basic units of society, and are necessary for social stability; there is a natural or biological teleology apparent between the male and the female--"a two-in-one-flesh Communion between persons that is consumated and actualized by acts that are reproductive in type, whether or not they are reproductive in effect..."
III. The Transactional Model: marriage is beneficial to the persons involved; marriage is a transaction regulated by the state.
Jordan's argument (basically, as I understand it):
1. The state should remain neutral between competing conceptions of the good. (Jordan calls this "The Basic Principle of Liberalism")
2. There are three models of marriage that represent competing conceptions of the good: the Sacramental Model, the Communional Model, and the Transactional Model.
3. The Sacramental Model in itself represents a controversial conception of the good (because it is “ontologically thick”).
4. Therefore, the state cannot endorse the Sacramental Model.
5. The Communional and the Transactional Models of marriage are both ontologically thin (i.e., neither is religious), and are thus both consistent with the Basic Principle of Liberalism.
6. The state ought to remain neutral between the Communional and the Transactional Models.
7. Legal recognition of same-sex marriage is compatible with the Transactional Model (but not required by it) but is incompatible with the Communional Model.
8. For the state to recognize same-sex marriage would, in effect, declare that the Transactional Model is correct and the Communional Model incorrect.
9. State recognition of same-sex marriage would involve the state violating its desirable neutrality between controversial views of the nature and good of marriage.
10. Therefore, state recognition of same-sex marriage violates the Basic Principle of Liberalism.
11. Therefore, the state should not recognize same-sex marriage; it would be illiberal of the state to do so.
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