Left Acknowledges Moral Component of Marriage Debate

Thomas Messner / June 15, 2011

Pay much attention to the same-sex marriage debate and you’re likely to hear how people who support marriage as one man and one woman are trying to impose their religious beliefs on other people. Dig in a bit deeper and you’ll find that many proponents of same-sex marriage aren’t very comfortable with political action by religious people and groups to support marriage as one man and one woman.

When Proposition 8 passed in California, for example, Mormons were widely criticized and even targeted for reprisals based on the widespread belief that the Mormon Church and many of its members had involved themselves in pro-marriage politics. One same-sex marriage activist has gone so far as to say that his “goal” is to get Mormons “out of the same-sex marriage business” and “back to helping hurricane victims.”

Turns out, however, that not all same-sex marriage proponents have a problem with religious influence in same-sex marriage politics. (more…)