The first same-sex marriage in North American history has just taken place. The highest court of Ontario has ruled that the millennia-old definition of marriage of one man and one woman violates Canada's constitution.

How did three people change marriage, always understood to be a privilege defined by society, into a right defined by judges? How can three people have the hubris to overturn a pillar of Western civilization without allowing their society to have a say in the matter?

There is a one-word answer to these questions. Liberalism.

There is no arrogance like liberal arrogance. Nowhere in the conservative world is there anything to match it.

Liberals are certain that they know more, understand more, are more tolerant and more compassionate than anyone else. Therefore, there is no inclination for a liberal judge to allow democracy to determine society's values. The idea that the public should be allowed to vote on one of the most significant issues in the life of a society offends them: Did Moses have the Israelites vote on murder or adultery? Why then would a liberal judge have Americans or Canadians vote on abortion or the definition of marriage?

The liberal American justices who created a constitutional right to kill a human fetus for any reason could not care less what the American people believed about the worth of the human fetus. If nine out of every 10 Americans thought that a woman and her doctor needed a moral reason to extinguish nascent human life, it would only have reinforced the liberal justices' beliefs that America needs their enlightened minds to counteract such foolishness.

So, too, the Canadian justices are quite unconcerned with Canadians' opinions or values. The justices believe that the definition of marriage needs to change, so they changed it. It's as simple as that. They know better because they are liberals.

But liberal hubris runs even deeper than that. Continued...