By Alan Caruba
An America that abandons thousands of
years of tradition and common sense is an America that has set itself firmly on a path
toward decline. That is the central issue of gay marriage that the Supreme
Court will struggle to determine. A similar experience in social engineering
gave us the federal protection of abortion and the murder of an entire
generation of the unborn.
What we are
witnessing is the tyranny of a determined minority, gays, lesbians, and
transsexuals in America, barely three percent of the population,
demanding that their particular sexual orientation should be codified in law by
redefining marriage for everyone else. This isn’t about equality. It’s about
special privileges and the destruction of marriage as solely between a man and
a woman.
Imagine if the
court had agreed with the early Mormon Church and established polygamy as the
law of the land? In 1890, the Supreme Court ruled in The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States that “the organization of a
community for the spread and practice of polygamy is, in a measure, a return to
barbarism. It is contrary to the spirit of Christianity and of the civilization
which Christianity had produced in the Western world.”
The Tenth
Amendment states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” If the
Supreme Court strikes down the decision of voters in California to prohibit gay marriage, it will have to
ignore the Tenth Amendment. At this point in time, 41 States have passed laws
protecting traditional marriage.
As one observer
noted, if gay marriage is deemed legal by the Supreme Court, what would prevent
the North American Man/Boy Love Association from demanding that their claim
that sex with children is valid?
A rational
society must have rational laws and the Constitution, which limits the powers
of the federal government, makes it clear that the states have the right to
determine their own response to such issues. Throwing overboard centuries of
English law and the Constitution to favor gays and lesbians opens the doors to
an “anything goes” society.
As a March 27
Wall Street Journal editorial noted, “The Supreme Court wrapped up its second
day of oral argument on a pair of gay marriage cases Wednesday, and the
Justices on the left and right seemed genuinely discomfited by the radicalism
of redefining the institution (of marriage) for all 50 states.” Make no mistake
about it, the demand for gay marriage is
radical and would transform our society from one that has respected
thousands of years of tradition and practice to one that abandons a religious
and cultural norm to one that undermines society.
The cases before
the Supreme Court arrive at the same time the nation has reelected a President
who made clear that his objective is to “transform” our society from one that became
a superpower based as much on its moral leadership as on its military and
economic strength. The result thus far has been to impose a huge debt that will
impact generations to come, undermines our ability to project strength, and
threatens the value of the dollar. The Obama administration is currently trying
to deprive Americans of the Second Amendment right to own firearms in the event
a tyrannical government should occur.
The result, not
surprisingly, has been an increase in the use of nullification by the states as
they pass laws making it clear they do not intend to implement Obamacare as in
the case of Indiana, South Carolina, and others. Six state legislatures
already have bills filed that would prohibit cooperation with any attempt to
indefinitely detain people without due process under a provision of the NDAA.
Several states,
including Wyoming, will consider blocking any federal actions violating the
Second Amendment. Florida, Indiana, and Missouri will look at legislation prohibiting
spying by domestic drones. The Tenth Amendment Center
has developed a legislative tracking page on its website because of this growing
movement to resist federal mandates.
Sexual mores, the
devaluation of our currency, and the general decline of moral values has
plenty of precedent in history, most notably the decline of the Roman Empire. America fought a Civil War over the moral issue
of slavery, ending it. It granted the right to vote to women. It stumbled badly
with Prohibition, but abandoned it. All central governments tend to over-reach.
The Supreme
Court’s decision on abortion is now being resisted as states begin to pass
legislation to limit this practice in order to protect the lives of the unborn.
The President and
other politicians who favor gay marriage, supported by a liberal media, will
not have the last word. This is not about equality. It is about fundamental
morality and, should America abandon that, it will cease to be a great
nation no matter what path other nations may take.
© Alan Caruba,
2013
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