Friday, May 16, 2008

Can’t get the People to agree with you?

Easy solution: find a friendly judge!

Even if you can’t manage to persuade the minimum number necessary to get your policies inculcated into legislation (50%+1 for vox populi Initiatives, or a majority of the Legislature and the Governor), that’s perfectly okay because all you need to do is find a judge that agrees with you and, voila!

You overturn the clear will of 61% of the people.

What could be easier?

Yesterday, a judicial panel of seven judges voted 4-3 to ignore the definition of marriage given in existing black-letter law by finding a “fundamental right” that has gone hitherto unnoticed for a century and a half. The last time this issue came up was Proposition 22, which passed by more than 20 points (61-39), yet those unelected judges ignore that to create a “compelling state interest” in gay marriage. (Which neatly sidesteps the utter lack of legal precedent, as well as the need to actually have any written laws supporting the judges as they attempt to arrive at their various decisions.)

Funny… wouldn’t there be a “compelling state interest” in one man-one woman marriages? After all, that is proven to be the most stable form of family, as well as being self-sufficient in creating future generations (something same-sex couples simply cannot do).

That ticking sound is becoming louder.