Berkowitz on SSM and Dissent | National Catholic Reporter

Berkowitz on SSM and Dissent | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Berkowitz is as wrong on this issue as he is on Palestine.  The kind of debate MSW and Berkowitz call for would be applicable if this were a legislative issue.  It is not nor should it be.  It is a rights issue.  Indeed, it is a right to marry issue.  Subsitute interraction marriage for gay marriage and you will understand why people are tired of debating and willing to demonize the other side.  This is especially the case if you read the weak case put on by the Organization for Marriage in the gay marriage case in the Northern District of California. The arguments were insulting to gays who had families.  The real sad thing was that they parrotted what bishops say about it.  Should lawyers who don't see this as an equal protection be ridiculed?  Yes, it is pretty basic stuff.  It is as basic as being an embryologist - or for that matter a pharmacist - and not knowing that life begins at gastrulation.  Some things are obvious.  The constitutional rightness of gay marriage is one of those things.  What about Eich?  As long as we worship CEOs in our capitalist system, any who embarrass the firm are out.  It may be regretable, but it is understandable.  Again, what if he had contributed to a fund to stop race mixing in marriage?  Yes, its like that.