Posted on 11/16/2008 9:13:13 PM PST by yellowroses
On one extreme, we have the idea that the Constitution is a written document that can only be altered by a deliberately time-consuming process of amendment.
On the other extreme, we have the idea that the Constitution means whatever a group of judges says it means.
The Constitution itself belongs to the first group -- it declares that it can only be changed through the amendment process.
But ever since Roe v. Wade in 1973, we have watched as, first the U.S. Supreme Court, and now state supreme courts in Massachusetts, California, and Connecticut, make new law by judicial decree, based on "ideas" purportedly found in the federal and state constitutions, but not based on the plain language of those documents.
No one in their right mind can possibly claim that when these constitutions were approved, there was the slightest intention to force abortion, and now gay marriage, on societies that had never been given a chance to vote on such morally portentous matters.
Roe v. Wade originally allowed abortions only in the first trimester of pregnancy. But through diktat after diktat, without any new law passed by constitutional process, the abortion "right" has come to allow killing a viable baby in mid-birth, or discarding a living baby when it was rude enough to be born breathing in the midst of an abortion.
Now various state courts are declaring that "marriage" must be redefined to include something that "marriage" has never meant in the history of the human race -- a reproductively and socially irrelevant "bond" between persons of the same sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at meridianmagazine.com ...
1. I will no longer use the word “gay.” From now on I will use the proper term, Homosexual.
2. It is not gay marriage; it is same-sex marriage.
Other than those phraseology problems, it’s good, but a little long on point.
On the other extreme, we have the idea that the Constitution means whatever a group of judges says it means.
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The socialist wet-dream....
I’ve met him, several times. I’m surprised he remains a Democrat. There will no doubt be many leftist callers taunting him in the “Sound Of The Beep” column in the local, free conservative weekly, The Rhinoceros Times, about Prop. 8 and his being Mormon. Greensboro proper is a very liberal town, politically dominated by racial militancy and college kooks, an island surrounded by a sea of red. I look forward to seeing his terse replies.
does all this mean that we will have new Jerry Sringer guests who will in the future want to marry their goats or pigs?
After seeing some of the people at these protests, I must say that it is already being done.
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