Proposition 8 declared unconstitutional

[PanzerJaeger]

What is that? Is that what marriage is? Sexual affection? Is that any of the government's business?

Marriage is what it is. You either believe it has a social value or not. You either think the government should be involved in it or not. What I don't understand is how you can hold such diametrically opposing views of the institution based on gender. When it is limited to a man and a woman it is a special and valuable social institution, but if that were to be expanded to two men or two women, then it should suddenly be thrown out. I am saying that what makes marriage special is not the gender of the involved parties. It is a null variable.

If you don't think government should be in the business of marriage, that is a completely legitimate position. If you've come to that position because you feel like gay marriage will somehow degrade the institution to the point of meaninglessness so it might as well be thrown out, I dispute that notion. It just seems like an intellectual temper tantrum.