Thursday, November 20, 2008

Judicial Totalitarianism Revisited

Why am I not surprised? From the AP:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's highest court has agreed to hear legal challenges to a new ban on gay marriage, but is refusing to allow gay couples to resume marrying until it rules.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted three lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8. The amendment passed this month with 52 percent of the vote. The court did not elaborate on its decision.

All three cases claim the ban abridges the civil rights of a vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change.

Utter nonsense! To say, as the gay rights movement does, that a particular group (in this case the voters) lacks "the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change" represents the height of hutzpah that is unfortunately all too characteristic of the intolerant bigots on the left. Isn't it this group, after all, that is aiming to enact the most sweeping historical, cultural and societal change in history by demolishing, via judicial fiat, the immutable definition of humanity's oldest natural institution? And they have the temerity to lecture us about lacking due authority?

As for abridging "the civil rights of a vulnerable minority group," I think the one bunch that actually fits the bill for a beleaguered "vulnerable minority group," relentlessly harassed, routinely insulted and caricatured is faithful Catholics! Further, who doubts that, had Prop. 8 failed on Nov. 4, the sybaritic gay rights crowd would today be extolling the tolerance and wisdom of the enlightened Californian voter over the baleful forces of the antediluvian religious right? If they thought that there were such grave legal violations with the original referendum, they should have boycotted the vote and taken it up in court later. Doesn't their mass participation in the referendum process evince at least some tacit consent to abide by the final verdict of the voters?

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