Making Their Case

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Worth noting: This Washington Post op-ed on marriage equality was penned jointly by Bob Levy, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute (which often aligns with conservatives to oppose expanded government and higher taxes), and John Podesta, president of the left-liberal Center for American Progress (which often aligns with progressives to support higher taxes and bigger government). Both men serve as co-chairs of the advisory board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is sponsoring the Olson-Boies case against California's Proposition 8, which overturned the legislatively passed extension of marriage to same-sex couples in the Golden State.

3 Comments for “Making Their Case”

  1. posted by Throbert McGee on

    Levy and Podesta may have nominally different political philosophies, but they can agree on one thing:

    Legally recognizing same-sex couples with the term “domestic partnership” rather than “marriage” is an injustice comparable to arresting and imprisoning interracial couples, as the Commonwealth of Virginia sought to do in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Loving.

    There was a time in the long-long-ago when I would’ve expected someone from the CATO Institute to acknowledge and articulate the difference between positive and negative liberties.

  2. posted by BobN on

    You continue to ignore the fact that the right to marriage was taken away by Prop 8.

    I wonder which group in this country would quietly accept the majority deciding that they were entitled only to the right to bote. (no, that’s not a typo)

  3. posted by John D on

    Throbert,

    At no point to Levy and Podesta suggest that the injustice faced by same-sex couples is equivalent to that faced by interracial couples in Virginia in the 1960s. And your point is?

    If I were beaten up, I wouldn’t want someone to shrug it off because no one had murdered me. Maybe the Loving should have kept quiet, because, look at the people who got killed for interracial relationships.

    Besides, let’s not pretend that the Prop 8 Defense Fund is the slightest bit happy with domestic partnerships. That crowd made many attempts at banning California Registered Domestic Partnerships.

    There is no reason to treat same- and opposite-sex couples differently.

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