We’re a republic, not a democracy. The rule of law supercedes majority opinion. The majority cannot rightfully do whatever an individual citizen has no right to do, since the powers and rights of the majority derive utterly from the rights and powers of each citizen. So it’s valid to have judicial review of any law passed by the voters regarding the Constitutionality of said law.
The fix is in—the Gay Power groups have selected a judge that will give in and give them their marriage thing over and above the will of the people. This is the death of democratic government. It is the rule of the few, the rich and the gay.
Next will come polygamy. Reform is needed.
Oh.
But judicial review happens only upon the filing of lawsuits.
Those in favor of homosexual marriage campaigned against Prop. 8, which was their right. Their side lost, so they went back to court to argue that it was unconstitutional for us to have voted on the definition of marriage in the first place. That argument lost in the state Supreme Court, so now they are looking to the federal courts.
I don’t see how this federal lawsuit can win, because, as of today, FEDERAL LAW DEFINES MARRIAGE as a man and a woman, just as Prop. 8 does.
A big difference between homosexual marriage and interracial marriage is that, interracial marriages from states where it was allowed were fully recognized by the federal government. But in the case of same-sex marriage, the federal government specifically DOES NOT legally recognize such marriages as of now.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
It would be nice if we had a review of any law passed by Congress regarding the Constitutionality of said law. In my opinion, they have gone a wee bit beyond the enumerated powers.