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Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 25 2004, 12:32 PM
It is amazin reading this....
The US is a nation of LAWS. Right now STATES DO DETERMINE THE DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE!!! It is not a Federal Issue!! The definition of marriage in all states deals wth a contract between a MAN and a WOMAN!
It is not States Legislatures who are changing laws, its a few JUDGES!! We cannot have a few people in power as judges just creating the law as they see fit. ( What happens if Right wing religious right get judges in and start creating their own laws?)
It is just like the Judge in Alabama who did not want to take the 10 Commandments down - evnetually he was forced out of office, because we are a nation of laws - not of idividuals who can do what they want.
You want to have gay marriages - go to your state and get the law changed!! ( I know they tried in Hawaii or someplace, and people were worried about the full faith and credit clause)
Of course this will not happen, because the majority of Americans are against gay marriages. I doubt it would even pass in California...
We cannot have judges just making up law - they have the least amount of contact with the people. This is why we have legislatures. To PASS and changes laws. Judges are to merely rule on the laws that are passed.
Activist judges of any stripe are dangerous!! This is the big issue, not whether gays can marry or not.
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Yours is the typical rhetoric of reaction. Substitute the word "black" for "gay", replace the word "marriage" with "integration" or with "equal rights", and your post could have been a stereotypical letter to the editor in the 1950s through the 1970s. The blather about states rights and the braying regarding "liberalactivistjudges" is EXACTLY the same.
Over the past 30 years the laws against sodomy and the others used to restrict the actions of two consenting adults have been overturned. A panel of judges in Massachusetts has determined that there is no basis in law to deny same-sex couples the rights that so-called normal couples have. Nobody is "attacking" the rule of law - you're just whining because the rulings don't seem to be going your way.
These things happen - just like Brown vs Board of Education caused changes in other areas. This is not evil-doers and "liberalactivistjudges" imposing their will on the people - this is just part of the natural process of a society maturing changing.
Welcome to the 21st Century. Deal with it.