Out Of Thin Air

IBD Editorials ^ | August 5, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

Same-Sex Marriage: A federal judge decides marriage is a constitutional right and overturns California's Proposition 8 forbidding such unions. The issue is headed to a Supreme Court that Elena Kagan will be sitting on.

The imperial judiciary has struck again, with Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker striking down California's Proposition 8, passed in November 2008 with 52% of the vote, on the grounds that the voter-approved law was a violation of gay couples' civil rights.

Walker's ruling follows a Massachusetts federal judge's ruling last month that the state's married gay couples, also established by judicial fiat, were being wrongly denied the financial benefits of marriage because of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

In his decision, Judge Walker argues: "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license." Except that Walker provides no rational basis for identifying marriage as a constitutional right.

Prop 8 supporters believe there's no more a constitutional right to marriage than there is to a driver's license. On the secular level, both are privileges granted by the state, which is entitled to define the ground rules for its secular reasons and purposes.

This country and healthy societies around the world and throughout history have given marriage between a man and a woman special legal protection because of the recognition that it is the one institution that ensures the society's future through the orderly procreation and upbringing of children.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you very much, massmike.

Bigheadfred, here’s some links! And panacxanax, you might like these as well.

[little jeremiah]

Fred - just in case you didn’t see panax’s facts, check out the referenced comment above.

[bigheadfred]

Thanks people. It is appreciated.

[raptor22]

Ping

[norraad]

Also don't forget The Bohemian Grove , Mo'henian grove, where they compromise politicians for future control.

Even Dick Nixon (He said it was the "Go&Dam* faggiest thing I ever saw!")

[Rapscallion]

: A federal judge decides marriage is a constitutional right

Any state can refuse to issue a marriage license.....so getting a marriage license is NOT A RIGHT. Impeach the judge. He is a fool.

[massmike]

Here’s another example of a homosexual/pedophile connection..

Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education.......praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-appointee-lauded-NAMBLA-figure-63115112.html