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Eric Baerren on the US Scrapping Defense of Marriage Act: When Homophobia Stopped Being Cool

The fight over gay rights: Spear it with a stick and haul it off the campfire, ‘ cause it’s done. Well done, which is terrible for meat but just fine for a political fight. What’s left is the mopping up. For the time being, homosexuals can enjoy their meal before clearing out the rest of the dead wood.
Things ended this week when the Supreme Court threw out the Defense of Marriage Act. This was mostly expected, since the law was clearly discriminatory in its intent. What made it a watershed moment was that the Court simply rolled along with normalizing the place in our society for people with different sexual identities.
In reality, the fight ended when homophobia became not only not cool to the next generation of Americans, but downright embarrassing. We’re not even any longer in “love the sinner, hate the sin’ territory. We’re in “I’m not quite sure how loving someone qualifies as a sin’ territory.
There are, of course, still holdouts — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for one. In his dissent, he puzzled about judicial review of laws, not just overlooking centuries of legal precedent but a majority opinion he’d joined just the day before that had overturned a critical part of the Voting Rights Act based on the grounds that the high court just doesn’t think it needs to be a law any longer.
There was also Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, who proclaimed it the death of the Republic. This is now, to my reckoning, the fourth time the Republic has been slain in the past five years.
To read the full article from the New Ypork Daily Record go here