When Justice Clarence Thomas deliberates and makes his decision regarding the two cases before the Supreme Court on marriage, the country will be well served if he recalls since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, his own marriage had to be adjudicated in order that he marry his present wife. One can be certain that Justice Thomas did not find in to be inappropriate for a marriage to take place between two people of different races. It would be hypocrisy on his part to fail to apply the same standards to marriage that now exists for differing races to a marriage between either differing sexes or between individuals of the same sex. Marriage is more than a right to cohabitate or parent offspring. Various tax laws, to name one area, grant privileges to two married individuals that are not granted to two single people. Either privileges granted to marrieds have to be eliminated or those privileges need to be extended to any married couple regardless if of the same or of differing sex. For Justice Thomas to vote to deprive others a right granted to him by a decision of the Supreme Court in 1967 would be a travesty.
This is the voice of a former Eisenhower Republican who presently is witnessing the destruction of the middle class because of today's Republican politics and policies. Today, ideology trumps reality and practicality. The time has come for humans to take back the castles from the corporations. Comments are welcome, by the way.
