Making things what they can never be is surely the hallmark of our age, the Epoch of Truth-Denial. All eras have indulged in the fanciful – hence fairy-tales and heroic myths – but perhaps none in a democracy has ever before indulged in wholesale transformations not merely of personal norms, but also of entire institutions to comply with newly-invented concepts of what is right and desirable. But since what is culturally necessary is not always categorically possible, nowadays we simply redefine a category until it encompasses our required meaning.
Marriage between homosexuals to match that of heterosexuals is utterly impossible, but nevertheless, in 2015 this Republic waved its magic referendal wand and made it so. Almost nobody stated the truth – that what made a heterosexual marriage, the act of consummation, cannot happen for homosexuals, so from the outset, we were dealing with apples and oranges. Made no difference: even the Supreme Court ignored the irrefutable categorality of this issue, as we woke up to the shocking truth that even lawyers, as a group, had become (unknown word back then) “woke”.
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