We think it is time to stop the courts from making our laws. That’s why we elect a representative government. The ripple effect of letting the current court ruling legalizing gay marriage stand will be endless lawsuits, especially regarding tax-exempt status for churches and educational institutions.If I were more mature, I could write several law review comments on all the things that are wrong about these three sentences. Instead, I'll do this my way.
We think it is time to stop the courts from making our laws.The Supreme Court upheld the decision under due process and equal protection law. Other examples of courts "making our laws" under these doctrines include:
- Skinner v. Oklahoma, 1942, preventing the forced sterilization of a robber
- Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, desegregating public schools
- Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965, allowing married people to use contraception
- Loving v. Virginia, 1967, striking down bans on interracial marriage
- Roe v. Wade, 1973, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992, protecting women's right to reproductive autonomy
Obviously, it is time to put a stop to this nonsense.
That’s why we elect a representative government.The California State legislature has voted twice to allow same-sex marriage. The governor vetoed the bills both times, saying he would prefer the courts to sort out the constitutional issues. The proposal that the Town Crier is endorsing circumvents representative government by asking the entire electorate to amend the Constitution in a way that would eliminate certain due process and equal protection rights for one group of people.
The ripple effect of letting the current court ruling legalizing gay marriage stand will be endless lawsuits,It was not the gays who brought the original lawsuit; and, to repeat, they based their argument on due process and equal protection rights. Those are not the kinds of lawsuits we should fear.
especially regarding tax-exempt status for churches and educationalThis is a particularly obnoxious claim that basically threatens that churches and religious schools will illegally take political stances against the Constitutionally protected rights of gay people, and implies that the right itself is to blame, rather than the people consciously breaking the law.
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you probably know that the Town crier is owned by a republican who doesn't like gays and controls all the editorial content of that paper. and he's not afraid to sound dumb
I read recently that 40% of the funding against Prop. 8 has been donated by the LDS (Mormon) Church. Glad to see that the LATC is buying and spreading the lies - churches losing their tax-free status and other bullshit. Again, if they were any smarter I'm afraid we'd be left without blog material.
Anon,
I'm only asking that he own up to it instead of dressing up his positions in this twisted logic, such as when he wrote that the gay pride parade was unnecessarily divisive for a town that already has a Homecoming Parade. (Nothing against Homecoming, but that was somewhat of a non sequitur).
The Town Crier is the best newspaper I've ever read. I look to them for all of my political guidance, as well as emotional and spiritual. I'd trust them with my soul, in fact. What smart people they have working there!
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