Can’t convince? Coerce!
So, a group of liberally designated “prominent” Republicans have signed onto an amicus (friend of the court) brief, asking that the Supreme Court of the United States strike down California’s Proposition 8 and, more than that, declare LGBT&c marriage the law of intergalactic necessity and justice always and forever.
In other words, to do to an ostensibly diverse, pluralistic country what the court did via Roe v. Wade, turn off the Constitution’s pressure relief system and force an explosive issue through the single pipe of imperial edict.
Why is it that liberals, who are quick to point out diversity and the need to accomodate this, that and the other thing, constantly sabotage the nation’s best resource for accomodating diversity? By foisting one-size-fits-all solutions on us from Federal courts or bureaucrats, the “tolerant” crowd deny us the ability to use Federalism to reduce conflict. By refusing to let states or municipalities hash out issues closest to the populations that are impacted, the left forces constant battle, and with it concentration of power, in DC. And that’s probably what they want anyway.
Hot Air’s Allahpundit notes that amicus signer John Huntsman & pals made a sudden decision to betray Federalism and support imperial DC:
As for this amicus brief, Republicans don’t have a coercive Presiding Bishop. So the signers should be safe.
In other words, to do to an ostensibly diverse, pluralistic country what the court did via Roe v. Wade, turn off the Constitution’s pressure relief system and force an explosive issue through the single pipe of imperial edict.
Why is it that liberals, who are quick to point out diversity and the need to accomodate this, that and the other thing, constantly sabotage the nation’s best resource for accomodating diversity? By foisting one-size-fits-all solutions on us from Federal courts or bureaucrats, the “tolerant” crowd deny us the ability to use Federalism to reduce conflict. By refusing to let states or municipalities hash out issues closest to the populations that are impacted, the left forces constant battle, and with it concentration of power, in DC. And that’s probably what they want anyway.
Hot Air’s Allahpundit notes that amicus signer John Huntsman & pals made a sudden decision to betray Federalism and support imperial DC:
I thought Huntsman, in his op-ed last week, was endorsing a federalist approach to SSM, which has the virtue of building democratic legitimacy for the practice. Evidently not. According to the NYT’s piece today, the amicus brief he signed argues “that gay people have a constitutional right to marry.” If that view prevails, the democratic approach is dead; you’ll have gay marriage coast to coast immediately as a matter of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. If your goal is to persuade socially conservative opponents, running to the Supremes to ask them to override state referenda is an odd way to do it. But maybe that’s the point here — that gay-marriage supporters, at least inside the Beltway, have given up on persuasion.That’s the big issue that all of our View watchin’, low information votin’, science & reason believin’, spiritual but not religionin’ ‘muricans seem to miss. We continue to substitute imperial coercion for the messy but neighborly work of talking, convincing and making change through real civic life.
As for this amicus brief, Republicans don’t have a coercive Presiding Bishop. So the signers should be safe.
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