With the recent announcement by the Religious Society of Friends that the church would now allow and officiate same-sex marriages, another wall has been conquered in the fight for marriage equality.

A blog post over at Southwest Libertarians sums it all up pretty well:

I have little doubt that by the time the main stream media wake up to this declaration, we will have headlines screaming ‘Quakers to marry gays’, and all the familiar knee jerk reactions and quotations from the bible condemning homosexuality. They will be missing the point.

Society has contrived through various means, medical and otherwise, to take away the role of marriage, and ‘parents’, in the production line of children.

What is left of marriage has nothing to confine it to a man and a woman. The Quakers, not being controlled by a ‘book of rules’, nor a man in a floor length party frock, are merely acknowledging that.

Photo courtesy of the Greater Boston PFLAG.