COURT REFLECTS PUBLIC AMBIGUITY ON GAYS: Peter A. Brown

The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states to ban gay adoption may surprise some, because the high court two years ago, in effect, legalized homosexuality.

But this decision shows that the law, for now, seems to have caught up with public opinion on gay-rights matters.

There is a consensus that homosexuals deserve the same basic rights as all Americans. But those individual rights may be tempered due to public concerns about the impact of homosexual conduct on society.

And despite gay-rights advocates' efforts to sell their agenda as the next step in the civil-rights movement, the courts and the country are not yet sold on their one gigantic premise:

That when it comes to questions about conflicting rights and government protections, homosexuality should merit the same status in the legal pecking order as does race.

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