But that doesn't make it admirable or defensible. So I strongly disagree with the idea that we should down-pedal the issue of our marriage rights to win an initiative like Proposition 22. When we duck the issue and play into the hands of Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Gray Davis we send a signal to our opponents, our friends, and the next generation, that we are scared to make the case directly. But that case is a clear and moral one. Gay love is an absolute moral good.
Homosexual commitment is a moral good.
Marriage between two men or two women is a force for morality, and hostility towards it is a force for immorality. We have nothing to apologize for, nothing to euphemize, nothing to duck. The religious right, far from promoting family values and morality, is increasingly undermining morality and families. They are violating and denigrating good and decent and moral lives. That's our argument.