Christian conservative Ralph Reed has
described the legalization of gay marriage as tinkering with the
institution “willy-nilly.”
Reed, the founder of the Faith and
Freedom Coalition, made his conservative case against marriage
equality during an appearance on Wall Street Journal Live.
Pointing to the two cases before the
Supreme Court related to marriage equality, Reed said that he feared
the cases could diminish the “social value” of the family unit.
“My concern is that if the Supreme
Court takes a position that the voters of California were wrong in
deciding that marriage should be defined as between a man and woman,
then that lays the predicate for future courts to say that making
judgments about the social value, the cultural good if you will, of
the family unit is undermined,” he told
Reed argued that marriage was good for
society, then added: “There would be those who would argue, 'Well
then therefore we should allow same-sex couples to have access to the
same thing.' My counter argument to that is we have not tested that
thesis on a national level. The number of same-sex couples that are
getting married, even in the states that have legalized it, is very
small and the number of years that have passed is very short. And we
should not in my view tinker with or revolutionize the foundation
inculturating and socializing institution in the history of Western
civilization willy-nilly.” (The video is embedded on this page.
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