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Aug 03
2009
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In her syndicated column, NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that a "sea change" in the political struggle over same-sex marriage
just may have happened when a pretty, empathetic face came onto the national scene. A young competitor in a beauty contest was asked about her position on gay marriage, and she answered honestly (and, as it turns out, bravely): “I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.” She added: “No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
That young beauty queen is California's Carrie Prejean, whose place in this debate is explored at greater length in the cover story of the latest National Review by Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage. As Gallagher writes there (the article is currently behind the subscribers' firewall), "Carrie singlehandedly ended the virtual news blackout on gay marriage in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, and trumped the media's attempt to portray public response to developments there as muted."
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But that is typical of people who, lacking the courage of their convictions and thus cannot relate them clearly, attack others whom they don't know simply because they feel they must not allow any opposing voice from being heard and thus considered.