The only way to stop it is a Constitutional Amendment.
“I’m thinking the USSC will rule gay marriage is legal.
The only way to stop it is a Constitutional Amendment.”
I’m thinking the same.
This case will go to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it has the potential to become the “Roe v. Wade” of homosexuality.
But… alas…. it’s too late now for that Constitutional amendment, and I’ll explain why.
It was obvious to me, from the time the very first state (Vermont) legalized “civil unions”, that the ONLY solution to conservatives to prevent gay marriage in America was by a U.S. Constitutional amendment that defined the meaning of “marriage” as being between one man and one woman, and also barred both the federal government and the state governments from enacting any legislation to the contrary.
Lacking that, it was also obvious to me that the left would pursue exactly the same path to legalizing gay (and eventually, polygamous) marriage as it did in legalizing abortion.
Think back to the early 1970’s (perhaps it was even into the late sixties) before Roe v. Wade. We first saw a few liberal states (New York comes to mind) legalize abortion on their own, while many others (most?) remained opposed to the idea.
It’s possible that after the first state “liberalization laws” were passed, sufficient sentiment existed in the Congress of the time to pass an anti-abortion amendment; and, once passed, that a requisite number of state legislatures would have agreed, and ratified the amendment. But only a few years’ later, public sentiment began to shift, and by the time the Supreme Court issued Roe v. Wade, the “moment of opportunity” to settle the issue by way of Constitutional amendment had been lost, never to be regained.
And now, fast-forward to today.
Right after the Vermont civil union law, I recall posting right here on FR that a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage was warranted and how it should be worded (I was the first, I recall, to propose such an idea).
At the time, there was sufficient outrage at the national level to support this approach, and there probably way sufficient support in Congress to ramrod the amendment through.
Recall that back then, it was -Republicans- in the Congress who backed away, begging off the issue that a Constitutional amendment would be “too extreme” a solution, and that a “Defense of Marriage” law would be “enough”. They wouldn’t do the heavy lifting and wanted the easiest way possible out of a difficult situation.
But by their actions, they sealed the fate of marriage in America. That is to say, they provided the left with the perfect avenue to impose its will on all of us, that way being through the courts.
And now — with subsequent court decisions in several states at the state level, combined with “legislative acts” in other states (such as Connecticut, and soon-to-be Washington State), the left has built a strong enough foundation under its ideological argument to support a decision on the national level, which it will soon achieve.
As the saying goes, one must strike while the iron is hot.
Several years’ back, the conservative “iron” was hot enough to burn a marriage amendment into our Constitution that would have settled the issue once and for all.
But unfortunately, that time has past, and the iron has grown cold.
“The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”
(Will Shakespeare said that)
Because we failed to act, conservatives are going to lose the national argument on gay marriage.
(I said that)
I wish it weren’t so. But that’s the way I see it.