My friend, Matt Johnson, has a perception and incisive wit well-demonstrated in his musing below. Yes, it is a couple of years old and this is an edited version which he lovingly regarded with these words: "If that was how I wanted to say it, that is how I would have said it!" And so, I should probably make the longer version available; but since I am doing the whole thing without his permission, well, I’m just going to post it as I have it here. 
(You can find the slightly longer, unedited version here.)
My intent is good, I assure you. Matt’s commentary is well worth the read. Though it refers specifically to the "gay-marriage" debacle in San Fransisco about two years ago, it speaks clearly and insightfully to a broad American problem that is, sadly, all the more current today. I hope you will take time to read it.
The state of affairs set in motion by Gavin Newsome, the mayor of San Francisco, is momentous. It is a giant step in the struggle to procure “basic human rights” for a long-Oppressed cross-section of America. Newsome has become a folk-hero on the leftern slope of the political landscape, as well he should be. After all, it is in good American fashion to love courageous libertarians who are willing to put themselves on the line.
Even I, a self-acclaimed conservative, must give Newsome his dues. He has moved us toward less discriminatory society. But before we all crown our new-found hero king, or president, let it not be missed that perhaps the real reason “Everybody loves Newsome” is that he is like us. We are, after all, a society of tolerant, permissive, egalitarian, non-judgmental, libertarian, democratic, progressive, make-love-not-war kind of people.
We see this everywhere. Bob Dole gave us our creedal mantra at the 1996 Republican National Convention, fearlessly proclaiming, “I will not tolerate intolerance!” After Jean Carnahan’s failed attempt at re-election to the Missouri U.S. Senate seat, her campaign manager offered this timeless wisdom: “We believe, what we believe . . . and we have stood for, what we have stood for.” The crowd cheered.
What? Did I miss something? Sadly, there is more. Consider the amazing ability the New Democrats Clinton & Clinton, Gore, Gephardt, Daschle, and John Kerry have for coming down on both sides of every issue. Who says you can’t have it both ways?
So what does all that have to do with Mr. Newsome’s removal of discrimination from American public life? Consider this: our hero is an anti-democratic Democrat (he wants the courts to overturn a democratically approved measure) who stands for the inclusivism of exclusive relationships for homosexuals who want to participate in a heterosexual Institution that he claims is lawfully against the Law. Face it, there’s just nothing like a secularist fanatic promoting an anti-traditional tradition religiously proclaiming anti-religious sentiments through immoral platitudes that condemn morality. Discrimination has definitely come to an end!
We have not stopped to see that a world without discrimination is a world without reason. The ability to discriminate between one thing and another is the irreducible starting point for all discursive thought. Ever heard of the law of non-contradiction? The end of discrimination is simply non-sense, the very end of sense! What is most astounding, though, is that the “cultural elites” see all of this as progress. But whatever we call the removal of boundaries, the redefinition of time-honored traditions, and relativizing of moral norms, it is not progress. Removing boundaries, redefining traditions, and relativizing moral norms, in fact, are tantamount to moving back to the starting line. This is a strange way for the species to evolve. How can we call it progress if we do not know the goal?
Thus, we have the post-modern world, and the end of discrimination. For anyone still with me, if I sound like an advocate of discrimination, I am guilty as charged. I especially advocate discriminating between good and bad, true and false, as in the question: “Discrimination is wrong, true or false?” But Mr. Newsome and the avant-garde of 21st-century “culture” seem to have invented a new cosmology that they hope will bring about a new cosmos – composed of who-knows-what? – that is boundlessly tolerant and commendably non-discriminatory.
The best I can understand, if indeed understanding is possible, it should probably be tabbed the Theory of dEvolution. And it appears, if the Massachusetts Supreme Court and the past history of the 9th Circus is any indication, that the Court is poised to uphold and enshrine this Nihilism as America’s official public philosophy. This is the utter negation of sense and we have, in part, Mr. Newsome to thank.
But wait, I mustn’t exclude sense; that would violate the ethic of inclusion. And I don’t dare be judgmental. But how are we to express ourselves? Taking a vote might do, though it could violate someone’s “individual liberties”. A more progressive form of expression might “leave someone behind.” Alas, the only form of expression left is love-makin’. Gavin, we’re “Mad About You!” Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Mr. Gavin Newsome!