Might Makes Right
While many are heralding the Supreme Court’s ruling forcing Same-Sex Marriage as a victory for liberty, it is in fact the exact opposite. The simple fact is that same-sex couples already could marry in the most important sense of marriage, in the sense of a commitment between two people. In fact since the 1970’s […]
Read More..>>The Constitution is Dead, So Now What?
The Supreme Court’s decision to ignore “the most natural reading” of the law, so that it could rewrite it to be what they want it to be, is only the latest in a very long series of cases that gut the law and even the Constitution to achieve the goals desired by the current majority […]
Read More..>>The Face of Tyranny
Supporters of redefining marriage to include same-sex couples like to portray it as the latest battleground in a long tradition of fighting bigotry and intolerance, a fight where victories are celebrated as triumphs of the rule of law. But while supporters like to keep the focus on what they call “marriage equality” in reality something […]
Read More..>>Same sex Marriage and the Rule of Law
Bob Cornwall recently posted on his blog about some of the legal issues surrounding the same sex marriage debate. He writes “There are important legal issues at stake here” and this is very true. However when he starts his blog with the claim that “Across the nation gay marriage bans are falling under the […]
Read More..>>A Constitutional Crisis
Major disputes, be they family disputes, disputes at work, political fights, or conflicts between nations often operate at several levels. The classic example of this is World War I, seemingly started by the assassination of an obscure archduke by a Serbian terrorist, but in reality the causes ran much deeper to the point that the […]
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