Tag Archives: gay marriage

Our Robed Rulers

“If the justices are going to do politics, they should be in electoral politics. If John Roberts is going to write laws on the days when he isn’t posing as powerless to write laws, if Anthony Kennedy truly believes the country craves his eccentric notion of liberty (one that condemns government restraints on marriage 24 hours after it tightens government’s noose around one-sixth of the U.S. economy), then their seats should not be in an insulated third branch of government. They should be in an accountable third chamber of Congress.”

Should be, sure. But issuing edicts is so much easier than compromising, gathering support, and counting votes. You can’t expect Kennedy, our “wise Latina,” & their two liberal cronies to do the heavy lifting.

There is a Consitutional remedy for these outlaws, as our own Ted Cruz points out, but it would require more consensus in Congress and the States than there is likely to be. Too many people like being told what to do. Or, maybe, just maybe, this will be the last straw:

“Surely it’s an unusual civil rights victory that disenfranchises the people of all 50 states on a critical issue. After a mere decade of political debate on the topic of same-sex marriage, the voters have been told that our opinions are no longer needed. Justice Kennedy will tell us what we think.”

Via NRO & Ricochet

Gay marriage, Rebel flag, free speech

Here’s a cheery thought:

“A few years back, the late Cardinal George of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, who died in April, said this: ‘I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the Church has done so often in human history.'”

—Austinite John Davidson of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

On the other hand, I expect a quiet but growing refusal to obey these judicial laws-by-edict won by the Left’s “Outrage Industry,” as we continue to see with the drug laws, which may result in the cardinal’s “ruined society” but just as likely could create something altogether more promising.

Via The Federalist.

UPDATE:  The refusal begins.

Gay marriage? I still don’t care

Nevertheless, it’s interesting that the civil unions allowed to homosexuals are becoming increasingly popular with heterosexuals in France. The reason: you can get out of them without losing property or paying alimony. (These people are childless, obviously.) Thus to the conservative "fear" that gay marriage would undermine traditional marriage. The civil union alternative, at least in France, is already undermining traditional marriage. Me, I still can’t get exercised over the gay marriage issue. Even if most of them married and divorced monthly, they’d only match what heterosexuals already are doing.

Via The Seablogger.

Same-sex marriage

Roger L. Simon says he doesn’t agree with the Gorbot on global warming, but he does on same-sex marriage. I was for gay marriage before I knew the Gorbot was for it and now, with him for company, I wonder if I shouldn’t rethink it. But, really, there’s nothing to rethink. This just isn’t my issue. I have never understood the arguments against it, nor the relentless Republican attacks on it. The best argument of all is the Libertarian one: Get the government out of it, altogether. As one of Simon’s commenters says, you don’t need a license to have children, why should you need one to get married? Exactly.