Same-sex marriage is the same old conservative, patriarchal institution

Gerard Howlin argues that for the radical left same-sex marriage is simply patriarchy reincarnated in drag.

ON Monday, a swathe of US states began licensing same-sex marriages. Earlier that day, their supreme court had declined to hear appeals against the decision of the lower federal courts to strike down legislation banning those unions.

Some of those states included Oklahoma and Utah. When anti-same-sex marriage legislation, passed at state level, was overturned in the federal courts several states appealed to the supreme court. In refusing to hear their appeal, the supreme court allowed the lower federal courts’ ban on anti same-sex marriage legislation to stand. It was a momentous, but complicated, decision.