One Man, One Woman: A citizen's guide to protecting marriage

Opinion Journal ^ | 02/05/04 | MITT ROMNEY

[Pokey78]

No matter how you feel about gay marriage, we should be able to agree that the citizens and their elected representatives must not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage. There are lessons from my state's experience that may help other states preserve the rightful participation of their legislatures and citizens, and avoid the confusion now facing Massachusetts.

[goldstategop]

Mitt Romney isn't a conservative; but he makes thoughtful points about judicial tyrants usurping the balance of powers and using their judicial fiat to ram through the liberal agenda over the opposition of the elected representatives of the people.

[o_zarkman44]

The best way to stop the judges is for the legislature to ignore judges who dictate what law needs to be made.
Pompous Judges will scream and issue orders of intimidation to get their requests to be honored. Judges making laws is Unconstitutional under the separation of powers clause in the Constitution, that divides government into 3 branches, no one any more powerful than the other. The activist Judges seem to be taking control of the legislative branch by telling it what laws to make, and what they can and can't do. Time for the legislature to tell the Judges to keep in line..... or they will be replaced.

[LakerCJL]

WOW!! I'm proud of him for this stand, I really believed that he'd be a lot more wishy-washy on the issue (because of politics, not because of his personal belief)

[goldstategop]

Exactly. Time to impeach them and remove them from office and eliminate their funding if they persist in acting like tyrants. Rein them in and even the most pig-headed liberal activist judge will finally get the message.

[goldstategop]

Btw, ABC "World News Tonight" this evening ran a fishy poll that said 57% of Americans wanted the decision about gay marriage to remain with the states and opposed amending the Constitution to prohibit liberal judicial activism. Funny how liberals are in favor of state's rights when it comes to pursuing their degenerate cultural agenda with the help of friendly judges.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping - The Governor of Massachusetts weighs in, haven't read it yet. Not a conservative, but at least he's on the right side in this fight.

If you want to be added or subtracted from this ping list, ping me!

[goldstategop]

Even a RINO is better a Democrats. No, I don't like Bob Taft of Ohio either but he's going to a sign a Defense Of Marriage Act when it hits his desk. We have to remember insistence upon the perfect is the enemy of the good. In our battle against cultural nihilism, conservatives will need every ally they can get and then some.

[little jeremiah]

I agree completely. I really like what Jim Robinson says about it all.

Those who say Bush isn't conservative enough and therefore vote third party or sit it out are out in left field. Of course Bush isn't conservative enough for me - but I'd kiss the ground he walks on compared to any of the Dems. We really need to get a huge Republican majority going everywhere, and then there is a faint possibility the leviathan can turn around. As long as the criminally insane leftists have the power they've had for a couple of generations, we'll continue the downward spiral into who knows what hell.

[goldstategop]

Joe Farah's view is the President deserves to lose his bid for re-election cause he betrayed his supporters on spending. He has the same view about Arnold, the California Governor who is now backing a new bill granting illegal aliens drivers' licenses despite the fact 70% of California voters are opposed. The reason we don't have limited constitutional government in this country is we don't elect people to public office who will uphold the principle or rather we expect politicians all of our problems. So from the opposite end of the argument, we gain nothing by keeping spineless politicians in office. If we want a return to the kind of government we used to have, we'd better stop wasting our votes on bad choices.

[nopardons]

And just WHEN was that " we used to have " time?

} Joe's been angry with the president, over some law suit or other, for years. His anti-Bush rants are an emotional vendetta.

[little jeremiah]

I disagree with Farah on this one. (About Bush. Arnold is another matter...) So Bush spends too much - it makes me gag that spending is increasing for the NEA! But who else is there to vote for? What good will it do to sit out the election, or vote for some mythical Constitution Party candidate? That only insures a rabid mentally ill lunatic leftist in the White House.

Sure, it would be great if I or another Freeper who is truly conservative could get elected, but it won't happen.

In fact, Farah's attitude is what makes me not want to go to his website any more.

[Salvation]

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

1660 The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of children. Christ the Lord raised marriage between the baptized to the dignity of a sacrament (cf. CIC, can. 1055 § 1; cf. GS 48 § 1).

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1625 The parties to a marriage covenant are a baptized man and woman, free to contract marriage, who freely express their consent; "to be free" means:

- not being under constraint;

- not impeded by any natural or ecclesiastical law.

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