Posted on 11/15/2004 5:58:33 AM PST by OESY
So John Kerry lost the election not because most of the nation rejected his approach to Iraq or health care or taxes. Rather, he lost because President Bush succeeded in energizing the Bible-thumping homophobic masses averse to redefining marriage.
Or so goes the story line emerging from Blue America media outlets. It's been extrapolated from exit polling on the primacy of "moral values," and from the fact that referendums to ban gay marriage passed easily in the 11 states where they were on the ballot. But we think these returns tell a different story, and it's one that liberals who are so contemptuous of Red America ignore at the risk of more political peril down the road.
True, weekly churchgoers voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Bush....
The country is engaged in an honest and open debate about gay marriage. On the one hand, 41 states have bans in place.... On the other hand, most Americans also oppose amending the U.S. Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriages....
The 11 gay marriage bans that passed on Election Day represent a public backlash against efforts by liberal courts and others to end this national conversation prematurely. Americans aren't intolerant but they don't want unelected judges and grandstanding public officials imposing their own moral standards by legal diktat. You needn't be a bigot to have a problem with four out of seven judges on the Massachusetts Supreme Court taking policy decisions out of the hands of voters and legislatures, or with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom defying state law....
The lesson here for gay rights activists is to trust the democratic process, rather than use the courts to circumvent it....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The lesson here is to amend the constitution to clarify that marriage is between one man and one woman, before the USSC overturns 50 state laws as they did in Roe v. Wade. If sodomy is constitutionally protected, what reason could there be that a sodomistic marriage is not?
I might remind the vaunted WSJ that the exit polls about which they speak are the same exit polls that they wrote last week were outrageously -- maybe even maliciously -- WRONG!
Thought this was a Mark Morford post for a minute.
We were not allowed to trust democracy instead of the courts up here in Canada.
Our former prime minister said that the majority of Canadians should not be allowed to make a decision effecting a minority.
It would never go to a referendum under a liberal watch.
I guess he knows what the majority of Canadians actually think.
Keep fighting for your amendment. It is the only way.
I have yet to see conclusive data on that media held theory.
They can do the same for flag burning.
Granted, some future Congress can vote to restore the issues, but we should have a conservative court in place by then.
"Americans aren't intolerant but they don't want unelected judges and grandstanding public officials imposing their own moral standards by legal diktat."
Liberals forgot the rights of the majority. That is why the left has failed. I hope that the left pushes the court abuses in overturing the decisions of the electorate. This way we can show that the courts need to be placed back in their proper place.
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