Posted by
pbylsma on Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:55:33 PM
I am appalled by the decision of the California Supreme Court today. Besides the fact that this now is a mandate from the government that says men and women are exactly the same -- which is wrong -- it also uses the government's power to promote that idea and endorse it. And it overturns the will of the people. It makes me wonder if, in the future, if someone says they don't like same sex marriage they will be charged with a hate crime. I can see no way to deny that conclusion -- maybe if you dear reader can, please let me know.
They talk about tyranny of the majority -- this is clearly the tyranny of the minority. I loathe legislation from the bench and this is an ideal example of it -- the post from Hugh Hewitt's blog which speaks to this issue far better than I can is below for your review. Thank goodness there are people in the law like Hugh.
Those of us who love liberty are being threatened by activist judges and lawyers who don't care what the people think or want -- they only care what they think and want. What great public servants they are! And this is what you will get if Obama becomes President. I shudder in fear at the thought.
Time to re-read 1984.
And by the way, while its on my mind: KEITH OLBERMANN IS AN IDIOT.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt
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1:49 PM
Today's decision by the California Supreme Court is yet another judicial puscht.
It is appalling. Incredibly, a feverish will to power on the part of
small numbers of judges is rapidly eroding a citizen's standing as the
ultimate lawgiver. Courts unbound by any sense of limits, by any sense
of restraint, threaten the basic understanding that has long
undergirded the Republic --that the laws proceed from the open consent
of the people, and that the ultimate laws, the federal and state
constitutions, are documents of fixed meaning and structure, not merely
window dressing on the rule of judicial elites or empty phrases waiting
for elites to fill them with meaning.
Today's ruling framed the question before the California Supreme Court this way:
The question we must address is whether, under these
circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of
same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution.
That was not in fact the central question. The
central question was whether the representative nature of the
California state government, including its initiative provisions, would
be upheld.
They were not. The California Supreme Court asserted
its ultimate power today in a way that is shameful and deeply
destructive of the ability of a free people to govern themselves.