Posted on 06/26/2015 10:20:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The landmark Supreme Court decisions are bulk-discounted this week, so here's this hour's. In my conversation with Hugh Hewitt yesterday, I said:
As you know, Hugh, I'm not a believer in Supreme Courts that are as supreme as America's Supreme Court is.
But here they are redefining an institution that pre-dates the United States by thousands of years with gay abandon. Ireland held a referendum to approve same-sex marriage a few weeks ago. I would not have voted as my fellow Irishmen did, but I can respect their decision. Likewise, I can respect those legislatures from Belgium to Uruguay where the people's representatives, accountable to their electors, have voted to introduce gay marriage by law. But a system where, in effect, Anthony Kennedy gets to decide for 300 million whether he can divine a right to same-sex nuptials that its drafters cannily left tucked discreetly in some or other subordinate clause of the US Constitution is to torture that document beyond rational meaning - even before John Roberts started doing his "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'state' states" routine. In other words, American republican constitutionalism has itself become as meaningless as Obamacare or the definition of marriage. Why don't we just cut to the Twitter version?
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The crude reality is that the judges are responding to the same cultural pressures as everybody else:
We're told that the presidency is important because the head guy gets to appoint, if he's lucky, a couple of Supreme Court judges. But they're playing catch-up to the culture, too. In 1986, in a concurrence to a majority opinion, the Chief Justice of the United States declared that "there is no such thing as a fundamental right to commit homosexual sodomy" ...
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Leftwing culture is politics
everything is political to the left, everything
The issue is culture. The right sat on its ass for at least 70 years while the left took it over.
Righto. Politics is downstream of culture, specifically pop culture.
Look at pop culture today, and you can see where our politics will be in 15 or 20 years.
It’s dead Jim. (America)
Yes it is
Which is exactly why libertarianism is an adolescent farce.
"Give the making of the songs a nation sings and I care not who writes its laws." Culture trumps law always until God tires of our singing...
The Constitution is not designed to win a popularity contest. I like to point out that in the 1930’s, polls taken showed that most people in the US wanted all black people to be sent back to Africa, and all Jews sent back to Palestine. Of course, had that actually happened, I would probably be posting here in German.
A Democratic Republic, which the US was at one time, is designed specifically to thwart the culture of the times and “popular opinion”.
At least, that's my understanding of it. This has become the "anything goes" Supreme Court, and it's happening with a majority of Republican appointees!
The Apostle Paul: Finally, my brothers and sisters, always think about what is true. Think about what is noble, right and pure. Think about what is lovely and worthy of respect. If anything is excellent or worthy of praise, think about those kinds of things.
Which our culture has sedulously avoided doing for lo these many decades. Is it any wonder we’ve wound up where we are? What else could have happened?
Culture Trumps Politics, IN A DEMOCRACY....
Politics Trumps Culture, IN A REPUBLIC.....
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