California Supreme Court Overturns Laws Upholding Marriage

By Selwyn Duke

It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself. Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will."

Committing this transgression on a state level, the California Supreme Court has, by a 4-to-3 decision, divined a right to homosexual "marriage" in the constitution it has sworn to uphold. In making the ruling, the court cited a 60-year-old precedent overturning a state ban on interracial marriages. But this is a false equivalence, as it ignores the definition of marriage.

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