Wednesday, February 26, 2014

This is how a powerful minority hijacks a republic

Through persuading a small elite of jurists and their social confreres that it is no longer 'acceptable' for them to tolerate the choices of the 'little ones' they supposedly serve.  I have no beef with Gay Marriage, Gay Sex or the Gay Divorcee for that matter.  I do have a problem that a small and unaccountable elite that we have endowed with great power abuses that power and undermines the foundations of our constitutional republic.  They've screwed the pooch with abortion and now we have more hatred, vituperation and incivility on that issue than ever before because of arrogant old lawyers in black Mummus.  The more the black clad ones wade into social issues and substitute their cocktail party chatter for the People's judgement, the uglier, crueler and less stable our republic will be.  From NRO:

Texas became the fifth state in two months to see a judge strike down its law defining marriage as between a man and a woman. On Thursday, San Antonio–based U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that Texas’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as well as its refusal to recognize same-sex marriages outside the state violated the U.S. Constitution, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The ruling will not take effect right away as Garcia issued a stay in expectation that the decision would be appealed. Texas attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott issued a statement saying he plans to appeal. Abbott argues the ruling defies the people of Texas, who voted in 2003 to codify the traditional definition of marriage in their constitution.

Since December, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Virginia have all seen similar laws struck down in court.


Republics only work when the elites that hold power demonstrate appropriate republican reserve in the use of their powers.  When they abuse them no matter how good the reason, they rip at the sinews that support and stabilize the Republic.  They really are the most destructive force in the nation short of civil war.  An event (via Dred Scott) that they have already provoked once.

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