- Flash! Support for gay marriage hits all-time high
- Support for same-sex marriage hits new high
- Major survey shows most Americans support same-sex marriage
It seems undeniable that Americans are falling in line with the same-sex marriage programming they have been bombarded with on TV, in movies and in the press.
I mean it's right there in black and white. Who can deny it? The polls show Americans are becoming more and more supportive of same-sex marriage. It's right there in the Wall Street Journal, on NBC News and in the New York Times.
I'm not even going to question the veracity of these polls.
Instead, I'm going to ask: Why we should care about public opinion on this issue? Why is the press almost daily reporting new polling data on same-sex marriage?
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The reasons I'm asking these questions are rather foundational:
- Typically public opinion polls are related to political dialogue, elections, legislative action, referenda, etc. But it seems clear the same-sex marriage debate has been completely removed from public expressions of the people, elections, legislative action and referenda. To date, it is an issue that has been completely decided by judges – usually federal judges completely unaccountable to the people, to legislative action and referenda. So what difference does it make that people are now accepting the dictates of judges, having broken from the traditional way of American self-governance?
- Why is the press so gleefully commissioning polls on the subject now that it is completely out of the hands of the people? Did the press care that 31 states that placed referenda on their ballots supporting marriage as an institution between one man and one woman passed them? How many polls were commissioned back then? Now that those votes have been overridden by federal judges who know better than the people, why should anyone care what the people think? It's irrelevant, isn't it?
Do you see my point here?
It's one no one else has ever made, as far as I can tell.
American is being fundamentally transformed, all right. But not the way change has normally come to America. In the past, Americans changed their attitudes about issues, then the votes would be cast and the legislation crafted. I don't think anyone realizes just what a political coup has taken place in this country in recent years. It's not just that marriage has been redefined. It's also that the way we as a people under the rule of law govern ourselves has changed during the frenzy to redefine marriage as a union between any two people of either sex – or maybe not even limited to two.
We'll soon find out more about that redefinition when nine men and women, high priests and priestesses in black robes, hand down their decision from on high.
Is this just sour grapes from a champion of marriage between one man and one woman – the definition of the Bible and societies everywhere for the last 6,000 years?
Maybe so, but it's more than that.
What I am attempting to illustrate here for you today is the cost of this societal shift on America's self-governing society, the rule of law and the will of the people.
What difference does it make what Americans think today about same-sex marriage? It was imposed on them from on high. Should we take delight in the fact that Americans had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this new enlightenment? Should we be gratified that Americans got on board with the change after it was forced on them? Is this the way we can expect to be governed in the future? Presidents and judges decide how we shall live, then the media will take polls later to see how the people are doing with that?
In other words, going forward, can we expect presidents to sign executive orders on immigration, then hope the people can be persuaded it was the right thing to do after the fact?
What I see taking place here is a fundamental shift in the way we conduct ourselves politically.
In 31 states, in the case of same-sex marriage, the people had their say. They were overruled.
The Congress of the United States acted, nearly unanimously, as I recall, in the approval of the Defense of Marriage Act, with bipartisanship and the signature of the last Democratic president before Barack Obama. It was overruled.
The Massachusetts Legislature was ordered by the Supreme Judicial Court of that commonwealth to rewrite marriage law.
This wasn't a popular uprising that made this happen.
It was an unpopular coup d'etat.
Whether it's popular after the fact is beside the point, really. The people's voice doesn't matter.
Is this the way we can expect to be governed in the brave new future?
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