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5.20.08 @ 12:01AM

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Not to mention that homosexual "marriage" in California came about not by the will of the people, but through a slim majority of unelected judges who think they are philosopher-kings, rather than enforcers of laws that others, namely, our elected representatives, have written. As one of the dissenting California Justices wrote, the Court "does not have the right to erase, then recast, the age-old definition of marriage, as virtually all societies have understood it, in order to satisfy its own contemporary notions of equality and justice."

We would also do well to remember Abraham Lincoln. Regarding another horrendous Court decision, the Dred Scott case, he said, "If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."

How appropriate is that statement, given that this Court has violated the will of Californians. Just a few years back, 61.4% of voters in the Golden State voted for Proposition 22, and thus upheld marriage. (By the way, this happened in spite of some 800 pro-Proposition 22 signs being stolen during the course of that campaign -- a crime that was never pursued by California's then-Attorney General, who snidely titled Proposition 22 the "Limit on Marriage" act on the official ballot -- all of which undoubtedly shrunk its support.)

But marriage is not something that needs to be affirmed at the ballot anyway -- though some 15 states, if memory serves, did so in 2004, and by overwhelming margins. Neither is it to be left to the whims of judges, as when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court brazenly declared, "Government creates marriage." (Does it also create motherhood?)

No, marriage is an institution as old as time itself, shared by cultures Christian and non-Christian. If you change it to include two men, two women, two siblings, or whatever, it's no longer marriage. It's like putting a mask on a cat, and calling it a duck. It simply does not work, and the numbers bear this out. In the Netherlands, which has had legalized homosexual "marriage" for over a decade, the average union between two men or two women is been 1.5 years. Meanwhile, some 75% of married couples (that is, one man and one woman) are faithful to their vows.

Of course, some might equate this statement of simple facts as bigotry. However, I would concur with Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and one of the most astute defenders of this institution today: "Most Americans understand that marriage is not bigotry. It is common sense. Because they are the unions that both make new life and connect those children to their own mother and father."

So, what is to be done? At the grassroots level, there is a movement to put marriage into the California State Constitution. Governor Schwarzenegger is set to oppose it. As if we needed more evidence, this proves, once again, that Schwarzenegger's election was a Faustian bargain for conservatives.

What will John McCain do? Will he show the courage he demonstrated in 2007, when he supported the surge in Iraq before supporting the surge in Iraq was cool? Or, will he take the stance of the Washington establishment, that this is merely a "divisive wedge issue?"

Doing the right thing will take courage -- especially when it means opposing those who set the national narrative. Let's hope that is the path that he takes.
-- Greg Hoadley
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Re: Quin Hillyer's The Worst Republican Senator:

Although Strom Thurmond recommended this guy, I'm sure he was too old to realize what he was doing. I sure hope Buddy Witherspoon beats him out of his seat. If Dizzy Lindsey gets back in (May God help us) and John McCain wins the Presidency, we are gonna be crawling up the rear with wetback Mexicans by the millions.

I once or twice wrote to Lindsey in 2007 but never got any answer. Now for some "odd" reason I am getting calls and E-mails from him. Do you think that this might be because it's election year?

I'm paying him back. I'm not answering him!

I hear it's been said that Lindsey is the best Representative that the Democrats have in Congress. But I will not really be surprised if the stupid majority of voters in this State put him back in. Since we are the last or near the last in education this just goes to prove the point that Forest Gump says, Stupid is as Stupid does.

Where oh where are the patriots of this State who not only advocated Secession but got up and did it?

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