Long-time anti-gay neo-con Midge Decter shows she's still full
of venom in "Civil
Unions: Compromise or Surrender?", in the newsletter Imprimis.
Decter fumes:
The term "civil marriage" or "civil union" has become a euphemism for both the legal and social legitimation of homosexuality....
The right to legal marriage that they are demanding is not about them - it is about the rest of us. It is, and is meant to be, a spit in the eye of the way we live. And whatever the variety of efforts to oppose it - another law or even a whole set of laws, let's say, or a constitutional amendment - none of it will matter unless and until all the nice and decent people in America begin to understand that we are in a crisis, and it must be up to them to sustain, and with all good cheer defend, the way they lead their lives....
For it is not compromise that the homosexual rights movement is after. Nor do they even want the standing in the community that heterosexuals have. They are radicals. What they want is not a room of their own; they want to bring the whole damned house down.
As nice as it would be to simply dismiss such vitriol, it's
important to realize that this is what a lot of folks actually
think, and not just members of the fundamentalist Christian
"religious right."