SSM is not "Real justice"

http://www.nomblog.com/13301/

Robert Reilly has worked in foreign policy, the military, and the arts. He writes in MercatorNet:

"...it is no longer tolerance, but the demands of justice that seem to require legally equating homosexual marriage with heterosexual marriage, something no other civilization in recorded history has done.

But before justice can be enlisted on behalf of this cause, we should ask ourselves: what is justice? The classical answer to this question is that justice is giving to things what is their due according to what they are. In other words, to act justly, one must first know what things are. When one knows what something is, one then understands what it is for. The purpose of the thing then determines whether our actions toward it are a use or an abuse. This is where the matter of justice comes in.

One does not get to make up what things are. If that were the case, then justice could be anything that one said it was. That is what tyrants do. This would be arbitrary, and what is arbitrary is by definition tyrannical. It is based upon pure will, unguided by reason. Those who wish to base their freedom upon the supposed purposelessness of things should face the consequences of this view. What seems unmitigated freedom is, in fact, the foundation of tyranny."

Ummm...several other nations have same-sex marriage equated to heterosexual marriage, so you're wrong on that count. 


Next, the philosophical view on what justice is, saying that wanting equal rights is "tyranny". The thing is, the root word of "justice" is "Just" which essentially deals with fairness in an issue. Justice is blind, that is why it does not look at the purpose of marriage in this case - to do so would be to qualify justice based on what is "good and right" by someone's arbitrary definition and defeat the purpose of justice.  


And it's ironic that NOM is posting this, given the line "One does not get to make up what things are." The irony? NOM is trying to make up a federal marriage amendment to define marriage as one man one woman, essentially creating that as the truth for our civilization as the only legally-recognizable relationship. 


For NOM to break down something so beautiful as human sexuality into black and white definitions of what is wrong and what is right and the attempt to make that into law is the true tyrannical action here.