So much for civilization’s DNA — predating Plymouth Rock, the Norman Conquest of England, even Mount Sinai — that marriage is defined as between one man and woman.
So much for American democracy, gay marriage having lost almost at the ballot in 30 state referenda, including bluest-of-blue California’s Proposition 8 in 2008.
So much for one man, one vote, becoming one man, one whim, mocking due process. The Old West featured the Hanging Judge. Our age features the Agenda Judge, “substituting his views for those of the American people and our Founding Fathers,” says Maggie Gallagher, head of the National Organization of Marriage.
However it views gay wedlock, polls show that America believes any change should occur by plebiscite. Proposition 8 statewide vote amended California’s constitution to ensure traditional marriage: one man, one woman. Disdainful, Vaughn Walker, a gay California Federal judge, recently voided it, usurping by judicial fiat the people’s expressed will.
A less biased judge would have recused himself. Terming Prop. 8 a moral “artifact of a (sexist) time,” the dishonorable Your Honor smeared millennia of marriage from Moses to your Mom and Dad. If this isn’t overreach, Webster’s needs revision.
Consent of the governed? The in-need-of-counsel counselor trashed California’s pro-Proposition 8 52 percent majority. Unintended consequences? As Justice Antonin Scalia notes, if gay marriage and sodomy are legal because all morality-based laws are unconstitutional, prostitution, polygamy and pornography must be constitutional. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet, if this rationale prevails.
Vaughn’s edict crystallizes what Peoria has loathed about the Left since the birth of its 1960s horror house: e.g., busing, political correctness, a tyranny of the minority. No wonder today’s liberal prefers the term progressive or moderate. The ideology is so repellent even practitioners dare not proclaim thy name.
I don’t care if someone is straight, gay, lesbian, animal, vegetable or mineral. I do care if special interests act as “a dictator,” says noted law professor John Woo, who backs gay marriage but loathes Vaughn trying to steal by courtroom engineering what he could never achieve through the vote.
Woo wishes to pursue same-sex wedlock honestly, state by state, at the admitted risk of losing time after time. Refusing, the Left’s preening arrogance now adds judicial wreckage to a Middle America already sick of socialized medicine, racial and sexual preference, bloated stimuli, and American apologia.
