I keep wondering to myself why in the world conservatives, including the President, would continue beating the dead horse that is the gay marriage ban. But immediately after the bans predictable defeat, OpEd pieces started springing up, usually around a prevailing theme – acceptance of gay marriage is an affront and government sponsored suppression of Christianity. Looks like the "War on Christmas" may get preempted by the War on Christianity (which also does not exist). From the 6/11/2006 Sunday Inquirer:
Conservatives have lost the argument. Yes, public opinion is still largely in favor of restricting marriage to a man and a woman. But as a legal and cultural matter, the train is already moving down the tracks; someday in the medium-term future, America will have gay marriage. Rather than attempt a hopeless frontal assault against the inexorable logic of the Sexual Revolution, conservatives should be fortifying their defenses against the oncoming assault on religious liberty.
As Maggie Gallagher argues in the Weekly Standard, once gay marriage is a reality, the next logical step is to compel religious groups who oppose it to drop their opposition – or else. The intersection of gay rights and religious freedom is, as Georgetown law professor Chai R. Feldblum notes, a "zero-sum game."
