{"id":4931,"date":"2010-08-11T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2010-08-11T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T01:11:01","slug":"jonathan-rauch-on-overturning-proposition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/jonathan-rauch-on-overturning-proposition-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Rauch on overturning Proposition 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinions\/2010\/08\/11\/2010-08-11_the_radical_gay_rights_ruling_leading_supporter_of_samesex_marriage_challenges_p.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Rauch<\/a> has concerns about the judicial decision that overturned California\u2019s Prop. 8:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared that California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage &mdash; and, by implication, any state\u2019s ban &mdash; violates the U.S. Constitution. The case is on its way to appeal, where it may be overturned. Already, though, gay men and women across the country are celebrating unreservedly. I only wish I could join them.<\/p>\n<p>That feels strange to say. After all, as a gay man, a leading proponent of gay marriage and half of a same-sex marriage myself (my partner and I got married in the District of Columbia in June), I find so much to celebrate. How could I not?<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>So I think the decision is a radical one, but not, ironically, as it pertains to homosexuality or to marriage. No, Walker\u2019s radicalism lies elsewhere: In his use of the Constitution to batter the principles of its two greatest exponents &mdash; Madison and Abraham Lincoln, a Burkean who was steadfast in his belief that ideals must be leavened with pragmatism.<\/p>\n<p>History will, I believe, vindicate Walker\u2019s view of marriage. Whether it will see him as having done gay rights a favor is less clear. For all its morally admirable qualities, his decision sets the cause of marriage equality crosswise with moderation, gradualism and popular sovereignty. Which, in America, is a dangerous place to be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Rauch has concerns about the judicial decision that overturned California\u2019s Prop. 8: Last week, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared that California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage &mdash; and, by implication, any state\u2019s ban &mdash; violates the U.S. Constitution. The case is on its way to appeal, where it may be overturned. Already, though, gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,53],"tags":[35,196,190],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-california","tag-lgbt","tag-samesexmarriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}