Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, was interviewed the other day by Kathryn Lopez of National Review Online about the recent vote by the citizens of New York state, encouraged by their catholic-in-name-only governor Andrew Cuomo, to allow same-sex marriage by approving the so-called Marriage Equality Act. Same-sex "couples" will be issued marriage licenses in New York beginning July 24, 2011. Such licenses are now granted in six states: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. These "marriages" are also legal in the District of Columbia and by the Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon.
Probably no one can state the case against such perversion with moral clarity better than Professor George. Here's a photo of the professor at his desk.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: What’s your reaction to what New York did to marriage on Friday night?
ROBERT P. GEORGE: Let’s examine the matter from a philosophical and historical perspective.
"The vote in New York to redefine marriage advances the cause of loosening norms of sexual ethics, and promoting as innocent — and even “liberating” — forms of sexual conduct that were traditionally regarded in the West and many other places as beneath the dignity of human beings as free and rational creatures. Early advocates of this cause, such as Margaret Sanger, Alfred Kinsey, and Hugh Hefner, proposed to “liberate” people from “repressive” moral standards that pointlessly deprived individuals of what they insisted were harmless pleasures, and impeded the free development of their personalities. They attacked and ridiculed traditional norms of sexual conduct as mere “hangups” that it was long past time for sophisticated people to get over. By the early 1970s, their basic outlook had become the mainstream view among cultural elites in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West. Although Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist, though Kinsey was a liar and a fraud, though Hefner was a buffoon, the liberationist view they had championed eventually hardened into something very close to a matter of orthodoxy in elite circles, and liberalism as a political movement went for it hook, line, and sinker..."
To read the entire interview click on the link below.
Sex and the Empire State - Interview - National Review Online
