At 09:24 AM 2/16/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>I'm not comfortable with amending the Constitution willy-nilly. And I
>find it ironic that the group pushing hardest for amendments lately (at
>least in my perception) are titled "conservatives".
I would ordinarily agree with you. Unfortuantely, current scircumstances
have left conservatives with no choice. Due to the full-faith-and-credit
clause and modern transportation technologies, one judicial decision in a
single State, which due to legal quirks is a decision which has no
checks-and-balances on it for the next two years, is effectively going to
legalize homosexual marriage in the entire United States.
This decision is the worst sort of judicial activism as it is based on an
interpretion of the law that is well beyond the pale of any interpretation
considered by those who agreed to the law. In short, it effectively turns
the constitutional repubic form of government of the United States on its
headby taking sovereignty out of the hands of the people and their
constitution.
I would much prefer that this issue was not a matter for Constitutional
Amendments, but was instead left within the hands of the Legislatures,
where it belongs. Unfortunately, some activist Courts have us with a
Constitutional Amendment as the only recourse left available to it.
Thus, there is nothing at all ironic about the "conservative" position
here. The literal meaning of "conservative" is resistant to change, and
the conservative support of this amendment is based on opposition to a
*very* radical restructuring of the social order. In other words, it is
"conservative" in every sense of the word.
And that, in short, is how an Amendment that was dead-in-the-water a few
years ago has suddenly sprung to life. And as I said, I think that
proponents of homosexual marriage will grow to rue this decision in a big way.
JDG
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