The San Jose Mercury News suggests that the "battle for marriage equality" has been won.
First of all, a social institution being defined or redefined cannot be trapped up in the trappings of "battle".
Second of all, the coupling of "marriage" and "equality" is just as distorted as "gay marriage." Marriage is not about equality, but about two people giving up their rights to themselves to become "one flesh". This transformation is a reality, whether a couple is secular or religious, as one's sexual partner never really parts from one's spouse. For this reason, sexual abuse can be so traumatic, because the offender in the psyche of the victim never leaves.
No matter what one's social views, marriage is an institution which has existed before there was a government. Man and woman said "I do" before there was ever a government to determine whether the two could say "I do" before a witness.
Marriage cannot be redefined in its essence, no matter who many laws are passed, no matter what the Constitution rules on the matter. Like abortion, the Supreme Court shoul have never gotten involved in redefining the limits of conduct and morals in our culture.
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