Abstract This short essay considers the importance to foist homosexual marriage on American society as an unjust action on legal, moral/ethical, and spiritual grounds. We demonstrate that the way out of the hysterical debate is to consider soberly the basis for supporting the ordinary family as the basic unit of society and protector of the next generation. Introduction America has since birth protected dissent and the right of all to an untrammeled expression of opinion. In contemporary times, to hear the liberal press, California dissenters protesting the successful passage of Proposition 8, and Hollywood types tell it, gay marriage is a “right” and should be legalized in all states. Discussion of the Moral Issue The Moral Standard of Fashionable Thought This paper delves into the issue of why the nation should accommodate the self-defensive opinion of a fringe, self-interested minority to grant civil and religious sanction to live-in relationships that afford society no benefit, at least of the kind that traditional marriage provides. Here, we argue that the exercise of illicit and, yes, perverted licentiousness does not protect those who practice it from moral condemnation and social scorn. In the same way, the right of consenting adolescents and adults to engage in premarital sex, adultery, incest, statutory rape, child assault, domestic violence, sadomasochistic acts, and child pornography all confront widespread disapproval. It is fashionable for the more outspoken liberals in this pluralistic society to proclaim that the time has come to tolerate, legalize and even admire practices that only they have come to rationalize as acceptable just so they can reconcile acts that their consciences, embodying moral standards, do not condone. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was fashionable to dodge the Vietnam War draft and to smoke marijuana. From era to era, it is popular among their own peers for adolescents to smoke, engage in binge drinking and risk life and limb in drag racing and contests of “chicken”. In contemporary times, there is California condoning crystal methamphetamine addicts as little worse than misguided truants who should not be penalized with jail. Parents wash their hands of children in middle school, shrugging that boys and girls will experiment with sex no matter what their elders say. Inner-city African Americans cry “racial discrimination” for possession of even one gram of crystal meth, clearly not enough for a “hit”. Errant teenage and adult women are aghast at bans against employing public funds for elective abortion. After all, is not their (mental) health jeopardized by carrying to term the fruit of an intimate relationship that was either unwanted or unlikely to withstand the scrutiny of family and friends? To perpetuate the sway of “politically correct,” fashionable thought, fringe liberals must expend enormous emotional energy reinforcing each other’s opinion, accusing their detractors of hate and discrimination, and when all else fails, unceasing propaganda that the American people will eventually see things their way. The Myth of America Moving Towards a Consensus of Approval In fact, there is no consensus in support of homosexual m