Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, May 16, 2008 8:50:05 PM
(Chuck Colson had some good thoughts today on what the highest court in the state of CA. did yesterday in declaring the state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. By the way that ban was passed by a vote of the people.)
"The only way the California Supreme Court could override the people is by saying that gay “marriage” is a natural right. But nowhere do we see this in the federal or state Constitutions. While the founders of this country wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” they never would have intended or imagined that those noble words would be used to support something like gay “marriage.”
"In essence, these judges have created a new right out of thin air. Now, they base this decision, in part, on a precedent of the case in California declaring the ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional. "
"Now, the problem is that the people of California cannot overturn this decision. Even an amendment to the California constitution will not help now. It all boils down to this: the need for a federal constitutional amendment—and soon, before other states start doing the same thing. "
(Colson is right we need a federal constitutional amendment even us who don't like to play around with the constitutional must admit that. Read all of what Colson wrote Overturning California's Gay 'Marriage' Ban.)
