In the 1992 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. This invented right became the foundation for series of radical decisions: Eisenstaedt v.
Connecticut, the Supreme Court discovered a right to privacy. Reilly reviews the Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for the undermining of the foundation of the Constitution. Reilly’s book is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the radical philosophical change in judicial reasoning from decisions based on protected inalienable rights founded on the laws of Nature and Nature’s God, to a judicial system under which everyone has a right to make up their own morality. It basically gives the whole issue away-because if sodomy is not wrong, then not allowing it to serve as the basis of marriage must be bigotry. This is, and was a terrible substantive and strategic error. Now the current retreat to the position of defending religious freedom means that the issue of the immorality of sodomy and other homosexual acts has most likely been abandoned for good. Unfortunately, the pro-natural family movement largely forswore pressing the ‘hard, ugly realities’ of homosexual behavior on the conscience of the American people. Reilly views this strategy as seriously flawed In order to move forward it is necessary to look at where the defenders of marriage failed to make their case and to understand why the truth about marriage failed to convince activist justices.Įarly in the struggle to pass state referenda defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, the defenders of marriage focused on the positive aspects of marriage and essentially ignoring the problems inherent in the gay and lesbian lifestyle. He offers a comprehensive review of how we arrived at this point and offers suggestions for more effective future strategies. Robert Reilly’s book Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Changes Everything meticulously reviews the history of the campaign to normalize homosexual behavior. The law may have changed, but the opinions of many and teaching of religions have not. Hodges decision has settled forever of the definition of marriage in favor of those who believe that two persons of the same sex can marry, the conflict has just moved into a new phrase. While some may believe or hope that the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Some believe that Donald Trump’s promise to appoint pro-life judges may have tipped the election in his favor. Wade settled the issue of abortion however, four decades later the issue still divides the country. In January of 1973 some may have assumed that the Supreme Court’s decision Roe v.
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