Consistency

One of the arguments used over and over by the Christian opponents of same-sex marriage is that all the benefits of marriage are available to same sex couples in domestic partnerships, and there is a shred of truth in this.  Yes, many of the benefits of marriage are now available to domestic partners.  Actually, it is probably true that most benefits of marriage are available to domestic partners.  However it is patently false that all the benefits accrue in domestic partnerships.

Just for starters, take a look at all the federal benefits like social security survivorship that are not available to domestic partners.

But what i'm getting at here is not to point out yet another blatant lie uttered by our enemies but rather to identify another case of shameless hypocrisy.

In an Open Forum column in the San Francisco Chronicle on 11 August, a man named John Eastman who identified himself as a professor at Chapman University  (which is in Orange County and we know what that means) argued that Judge Walker should have recused himself from the Prop 8 trial because as a homosexual in a long term relationship he stood to reap financial benefits if same-sex marriage were legalized.  Here's his column.

So out of one side of their mouths, the vicious scum tell the lie that we don't need marriage because we can get all the benefits from domestic partnerships, and out of the other side they say that a gay judge could not be unbiased because he had a financial stake in getting married.