You can post lots of links, but if they are all to people who have no idea what they are talking about, it doesn’t help your argument.
I love the links with titles like “experts”, when the people who are talking are obviously not experts.
We’ve been through this, so you know the argument, and since I’ve seen you occasionally act in an intelligent fashion I have to assume that in this case your agenda is worth more to you than your reputation for logical thought.
Because anybody who looks at the actual history here in the real world will know that the arguments made in your links is stupid and indefensible.
We have a large contingent of highly trained lawyers who are opposed to gay marraige and are fighting it around the country.
Not a single one of those lawyers took any action to implement the absurd argument made about Romney in this matter. None of them signed on to the argument. None of the contemporary writings on the court case gave a hint at the absurd claims made later.
We were all alive and reading the news the day the Supreme Court of Massachussetts legalized gay marriage.
And every one of us understood that this is what happened. Heck, there are even archives on FR about the ruling, and what it really meant.
The argument made months later by an anti-Romney group that somehow the entire world was wrong, that the court in fact has no power, and that we were all hysterical about nothing is an argument that gives arguments a bad name.
In summary — the argument being made by the anti-Romney folks is that the left spent millions of dollars to win a court case that did absolutely nothing, that the court’s rulings have absolutely no effect, and that the entire nation was wrong when it said that the court legalized gay marriage.
TO provide a succinct counter to the absurd argument:
The court did not strike down the marriage laws. Instead, the court read the marriage laws, and provided an interpretation of the words in the marriage laws as written, saying that the marriage law AS WRITTEN required gay marriage.
They were wrong, of course, to interpret “man and woman” as gender-neutral terms, but that is what they did, they had the power to do so, and EVERYBODY knew they had that power, which is why when they did it we ALL, meaning the entire NATION, knew they had legalized gay marriage.
Since they were re-interpreting the words of a statute, they gave the legislature 180 days to change the words if the legislature thought the court interpreted them incorrectly. The legislature did not fix the statute, so after 180 days the court interpretation became the law of the land.
It is very clear. the court ruling was not hard to read, the issue was simple and it is amazing that anybody would have trouble understanding it.
BTW, if the legislature had had to do something to institute gay marraige, they would have done so. 75% of them voted to prevent the people of the state from voting against gay marriage, which is more than enough to override a veto of a gay marriage bill.