Aaron Zelinsky est favorable au "mariage" homo. Dans The Huffington Post, il se réjouit de la décision de la Cour suprême de Californie :
The Court's decision drives home that the future of gay rights lies at the ballot box and not in the courts. We should view the California Court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.
As a technical matter, the central issue in Strauss was whether the sentence "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" was a constitutional amendment or a constitutional revision. In practice, the political question presented by Strauss was whether the California Supreme Court would strike down a popularly enacted constitutional change and restore its earlier judicial decision supporting same-sex marriage.
By upholding Proposition 8, the California Court effectively tossed the ball back to the voters of the Golden State. The Court thereby ensured the long-term outcome of gay marriage: Given the strong support of younger voters, gay marriage will be approved in California by ballot initiative, perhaps quite soon. Moreover, when gay marriage is approved by popular vote, conservatives will not be able to blame a "judicial activist" court for their loss.
Gay marriage will stand on sounder footing when it is popularly enacted rather than judicially imposed. One can imagine the wedge issue Strauss could have handed the Republican Party had the Court overturned the decision of the California electorate. Instead, opponents of same sex marriage must fight it out again at the ballot box.
Aaron Zelinsky réalise que le lobby homo a tout à perdre à passer en force. Il est persuadé que les jeunes, majoritairement favorables aux parodies homosexuelles de mariage, vont permettre un jour ou l'autre la victoire de son camp. Il ne prend pas en compte l'immigration (les minorités latinos mais surtout afro-américaines ont davantage voté pour la proposition 8, donc pour interdire le "mariage" homo), ni les conversions ou reconversions, ces chrétiens "born again" : on ne compte plus les libéraux qui ont rejoint les rangs conservateurs ces dernières décennies... Mais la forte hausse du nombre d'athées (8% en 1990, 15% en 2008, viennent-ils des confessions chrétiennes progressistes déjà contaminées par la culture de mort ou des rangs évangéliques et catholiques fidèles au Magistère ?) est inquiétante. Et le positionnement de plus en plus social et environnemental, de moins en moins sociétal de certaines "églises" évangéliques interroge. Vigilance !
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