America vs. South Africa in Steel Cage Match of Freedom
I was going to blog about this, but Andrew Sullivan beat me to it. I imagine that will happen a lot as I start turning to some political issues. So for now I'll let his post stand in for me. He's referring to this development, and his last sentence was the basic sentiment I wanted to get across:
NOW, SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution explicitly granted gays and lesbians full rights as citizens. There is no valid citizenship without the right to marry the person you love; and so the global movement toward equality in marriage advances again. Who would have guessed twenty years ago that the land of apartheid would now be ahead of the United States in its support for civil rights and equal protection of laws?
posted by JMW at 4:46 PM
1 Comments:
Dezmond, the only thing predictable is your tirade, so I won't give you the satisfaction of extreme liberal venting (mostly because I'm not an extreme liberal -- and this is more of a libertarian issue, in my mind. I mean, two people want to be married, in the civil sense; they have someone willing to marry them. You, Dezmond, Mr. Don't Tread On Me, want to stop them?)
The point is, you admit to the importance of other issues, like insurance law and wills, but those things aren't very...special to people. (And they're not very exclusive; you COULD leave your entire estate to a cat, if you were nutty enough to do it.)
I'm not saying it's not a complicated issue. But implying that homosexuality is a "trend" also seems kind of bizarre. At the end of the day, the fact remains that South Africa is recognizing the desires of this group of people more than America is. That doesn't strike you as odd at all?Really?
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