CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES DECLARE OPEN SEASON ON MARRIAGE

May 15, 2008 - In another stunning example of the ultimate tyranny of judicial activism, the California Supreme Court today voted 4-3 to overturn the ban on same-sex marriages approved by 61.4 percent of the people in 2000. Following a pattern established in Massachusetts, the ruling makes the voters’ will unconstitutional and infamously declares California as the second state in the union where homosexuals can legally marry. The case was filed in 2004 in response to the actions of Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, who challenged state law and the will of the people by handing out some 4,000 marriage licenses to same-sex partners in his city. By so ruling, the justices have handed the homosexual rights movement one of their greatest victories to date and have effectively destroyed the sanctity of marriage defined as between only a man and a woman.

Justices Marvin Baxter and J. Corrigan, in the dissenting portions of their opinions, stated that changes to marriage laws should be decided by the voters. In addition, Baxter also said that the court overstepped its authority.

Traditional Values Coalition Chairman, Reverend Louis P. Sheldon, said, “To protect marriage from same-sex intrusion in California, over a million signatures have been gathered to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot ensuring that marriage between a man and a woman is added to the California state constitution. The battle in our state will continue until the morning of November 5, when we know if this constitutional amendment is law by a minimum of 51 percent of the vote.”

“In addition, this only sharpens into focus the need for a national, federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution to fully protect marriage between a man and a woman. Forty-four states have constitutional or statutory prohibitions against same-sex marriage; therefore, a constitutional amendment at the federal level has a basis within these states,” said Reverend Sheldon.

This decision is also fundamentally wrong because homosexuality has never been declared by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, or the National Academy of Sciences as being completely genetic, nor does it fulfill the other requirements for minority-status classification. Therefore, it is still a behavior-based lifestyle choice that should not be given the equivalent of insular and discreet minority status. Given today’s horrendous overruling by the court, one must ask what the ramifications will be in other aspects of American life.

The logical implication of such a far reaching decision could impact who is able to get a license to perform a marriage in this state.

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