I have yet to see a convincing argument that the effort to force gay marriage on the nation is effectively divorced from the effort to force people to change their views on homosexuality. As conservative writer, talk-show host and lesbian Tammy Bruce says, “Gays ultimately need to stop looking to government for unconditional love and approval of who we are.”
Looking to government to force states to legitimize gay marriage, Bruce continues, “gives the government and other people’s opinions far too much power over the quality of our lives and effectively eliminates our own responsibility for our happiness. ”
I don’t know if Bruce is right or not when she attributes the ongoing political struggle to what she refers to as columnist Andrew Sullivan’s lament — “that it is only governmental recognition of who we are that will make us whole.” What I do know is that many conservatives’ objections to gay marriage have as much to do with the problem of overreaching state power as they do with what some people might call the moral aspect of the question.
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