While I was working on my last post, Daniel Greenfield (aka – Sultan Knish) was blogging on the same topic over at his site: The Deconstruction of Marriage. And while great minds may think alike (ha!) – he writes much better than I ever will ~

The deconstruction of marriage is not a mere matter of front page photos of men kissing. It began with the deconstruction of the family. Gay marriage is only one small stop on a tour that includes rising divorce rates, falling childbirth rates and the abandonment of responsibility by twenty and even thirty-somethings.
 
Each step on the tour takes apart the definition and structure of marriage until there is nothing left. Gay marriage is not inclusive, it is yet another attempt at eliminating marriage as a social institution by deconstructing it until it no longer exists.

 
It’s all part of the Progressive push to render everything meaningless.

You can abolish democracy by banning the vote or you can do it by letting people vote as many times as they want, by letting small children and foreigners vote, until no one sees the point in counting the votes or taking the process seriously. The same goes for marriage or any other institution. You can destroy it by outlawing it or by eliminating its meaningfulness until it becomes so open that it is absurd.
 

As Orwell understood in 1984, tyranny is essentially about definitions. It is hard to fight for freedom if you lack the word. It is hard to maintain a marriage if the idea no longer exists. Orwell’s Oceania made basic human ideas into contradictory things. The left’s deconstruction of social values does the same thing to such essential institutions as marriage; which becomes an impermanent thing of no fixed nature or value.
 
That is what is at stake here. This is not a struggle about the right of equality, but the right of definition. It is not about whether men can get married, but whether marriage will mean anything at all. It is about preserving the shapes and structures of basic social concepts that define our identities in order to preserve those very concepts, rather than accepting their deconstruction into nullification.

 
The gay marriage bulldozer rumbling through America is really just cleaning up the detritus still remaining from the institution of marriage. I’m afraid those of us in its path (standing up to the real bullies) – holding up a stop sign – better be prepared to get flattened.
 
Read Greenfield’s whole excellent article. It’s depressing – but true.
 
Related:
Gay Tea Party activist denounces gay marriage (video): “Regressive legislation.”
Same-sex marriage will not redefine marriage, it will UNdefine it, and unravel it, and in so doing will UNdefine children.
Too rational for the Left?