Prop 8, Moral Relativism

I finally cut out a little time for myself to read tonight. I picked up a Robert Millet book and started reading a lecture he gave in 95. It spoke directly to questions in my mind surrounding Prop 8:
"As Professor Stephen L. Carter has pointed out, 'one sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion. More and more, our culture seems to take the position that believing deeply in the tenets of one's own faith represents a kind of mystical irrationality, something that thoughtful, public-spirited American citizens would do better to avoid...' One Protestant writer has stated...'Truth has become a matter of taste; morality has been replaced by individual preference...As a result, man is adrift on an uncharted sea, left to find his moral bearings with no compass and no pole star, and so able to do little more than utter personal preferences, bow to historical necessity, or adopt social conventions...If the moral sense is the result of nothing more significant than a cultural or historical throw of the dice, then it will occur to some people...that they are free to do whatever they can get away with...'"