A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that California's prohibition of gay marriage is unconstitutional under the federal Constitutiona, overturning a vote by the people.

I don't believe that marriage is a right, except in the sense of it being a contract. People all have the right to make contracts that aren't the illegal. My main concern is that if courts make same sex "marriage" a legal right, the next demand from gay groups will be to force churches to solemnize such marriages, basically violating the freedom of religion clause of the First Amendment. Their aim is to validate homosexual acts as being the same as heterosexual intercourse. Not only is that objectively false, it will hurt the basic structure of society which is already under attack on every hand. Societies don't self-destruct over night. They just lose cohesion and divide into incompatible groups. Over time, these cracks weaken the bonds that hold it together. Values are no longer shared, and the ideas of equality disappear, classes become restrictive and divisive, the things that separate members of society become more important than the things that hold them together. When people get too angry and overbearing about "rights" that have never had legal force, the end result is anger hatred and division. As necessary as the civil rights movement was, it has been used by demagogues to build racial hatred. Liberals falsely denounced George W. Bush for trying to establish a "theocracy," when all he really did was try to increase tolerance. Our courts have substituted new rights for tolerance.

A lot of things are already undercutting our strength, such as the rise of abortions, unwed motherhood, single parent homes, bankrupting government and so forth.