Posted on 11/25/2003 2:05:21 AM PST by kattracks
Do-good judges drive new wedge into society
Some admire the gay-marriage ruling in Massachusetts. Some don't. But surely the heart of the story is the stupefying arrogance of the state's Supreme Judicial Court.
If you are going to stretch a state's constitution beyond all previous understanding, and impose what many people believe is a fundamental redefinition of marriage, you don't do it in a 4-to-3 vote. There is no consensus among Massachusetts voters for such dramatic change.
On a liberal court, thought to be favorable to gay issues, there was not even a consensus among the seven judges who pondered the issue for more than a year.
The three dissenters expressed some sympathy for gay arguments but also some serious legal doubts.
Justice Martha Sosman wrote that as a matter of constitutional jurisprudence, "the case stands as an aberration. To reach the result it does, the court has tortured the rational-basis test beyond recognition."
No matter. Chief Justice Margaret Marshall rammed the ruling through anyway.
Gay marriage, unlike civil unions or benefits for committed gays, will now produce an enormous and divisive national uproar. Right in the middle of a presidential campaign. Good work, Massachusetts.
Originally published on November 25, 2003
JESUS DEFINES MARRIAGE: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
I genuinely believe that was the main purpose in this.
It is a dagger aimed at the heart of a civil society, as well.
So, Jesus used the word "wife" in a gender-neutral manner? If you really want to follow the word as it is delivered by the Bible, you would realize that it is not those that resist same-sex marriage/union that have to explain themselves to Jesus, it is those that participate in those activities that must reconcile if they are to be saved.
Source?
G-d did.
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