KIND OF QUEER THAT THEY CAN ONLY WIN ANTI-DEMOCRATICALLY:

Maine voters reject gay-marriage law (>David Crary and Glenn Adams, 11/04/09, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote.

The sad thing is that there are not similar objections to allowing formal contractual obligations that do not claim to replicate marriage, but activists have wasted all their time, effort, and money on marriage in order to get the social imprimatur.

But, as Camille Paglia has said:

Homosexuality is not 'normal.' On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm; therein rests its eternally revolutionary character. Note I do not call it a challenge to the idea of the norm. Queer theorists - that wizened crew of flimflamming free-loaders - have tried to take the poststructuralist tack of claiming that there is no norm, since everything is relative and contingent. This is the kind of silly bind that word-obsessed people get into when they are deaf, dumb, and blind to the outside world. Nature exists, whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single, relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. Penis fits vagina: no fancy linguistic game - playing can change that basic fact. However, my libertarian view, here as in regard to abortion, is that we have not only the right, but the obligation to defy nature's tyranny. The highest human identity consists precisely in such assertions of freedom again!

Abnormal relationships don't fit normal institutions.

No one has much interest in pursuing gays into their bedrooms to punish their transgressions, but neither do we have much interest in letting them destroy one of the central institutions of our civilization.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 4, 2009 6:17 AM