It’s not in the Constitution - correct. There is also nothing in the Constitution which grants license to judges or anyone else to disregard the concept of language, yet these judges have done so.
It will never get to a popular vote, because the lefties know how it would go.
Last night in Seattle went to Spamalot - the Monty Python musical based on The Quest for the Holy Grail.
In this version Lancelot turns out to be gay and marries a “princess” held captive by ...err...its...father who of course wants him/her to marry a girl. Towards the end of the show Lancelot, having just married this person, says “and just think in a thousand years this will be legal in Washington State”. The audience cheered loudly.
It was a great show, very funny, but I have to think that this gay marriage thing is here and not going away. And then this a.m. that guy broadcasting the Olympics...they’ve moved into the mainstream.
I suspect that this author is not necessarily aware of 10th Amendment-protected state powers to decide such things, and is naïvely reflecting on such powers.
No need for a vote. It’s been decided already.
The counter-argument to the “marriage isn’t in the Constitution” argument is almost always, “sure, marriage isn’t there - but Equal Protection is.”
Whether or not we accept this line of argument (I think it’s pure B.S., and clearly not in keeping with the intent of the 14th Amendment’s authors), this is the argument we need to somehow counter.
Even Oregon voted over 70% against gay marriage!
Liberal elites don’t trust ‘the people’ any more than any ‘thugocracy’ trust the people.
Elites want fellow elites to make the calls...
Our beautiful country is on the way to becoming a creepy banana republic.
Honestly I dont see how 51% of the voters can decide the laws of nature don’t apply. Two people of the same Sex can’t make a child, and therefore cannot be said to be married in responsibility for that child.
You might as well ask people to vote on the laws of gravity it really don’t matter what they say the apple still falls from the tree just as the two men are still sterile sodomites not husband & wife.