Yes, they have — and so let us count our blessings! Strangely, this election cycle wasn't a totally unmitigated disaster: Three states will now amend their constitutions to recognize marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman.
Here in Massachusetts, by a plurality of one vote on the Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams' Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — according to David McCullough, writing in his masterful biography of Adams, the longest-lived, still functioning constitution on the planet, older even than the federal Constitution — was tortured into saying that any one man–one woman definition of marriage discriminates against the equal rights of gay people (and quite possibly the equal rights of other persons offended by such a definition). I feel sure Adams himself would have found the Court's reading incomprehensible and moreover scandalous, a sure means of undermining the most fundamental social unit of society, the family.
To me this election marks the victory of an infantilized, deracinated American public who, by a margin of 6% of the popular vote, bought into Mr. Wizard's Second Reality. But at least the people of three states have demonstrated that they haven't completely lost their minds.
Be grateful for blessings received!
And then let's get to work! I'm sure under Mr. Wizard's presidency, there will be quite a lot for us to do....
May God's Will be done in all things, on earth as it is in heaven. And may He continue to bless America!
Thanks so very much, Jeff, for your outstanding essay-post!
Like..... recruit and organize an under ground..
This was the last moderately honest election in America..
Some(like me) have doubts about this one(election)..
We often joked in the past about Free republic becoming hamstringed or inhibited in unknown ways..
This could become all our realitys soon..
Micheal Savage and Rush Limbaugh and others could become "handled" if not outlawed..
PLANS should be made NOW... by "US" in the best conservative website of all.. "WE" conservatives need to hang together or we may hang separately, alone, and marginalized....