Which grand concatenation of purposes the New Jersey Supreme Court reduces to a matter of observations concerning a species of legal rights never claimed prior to our own crazy time. And you think that's no reason for "Christian rightists" to generate votes for candidates who display glimmers of understanding as to what goes on?
A word about the marriage question suggests the need for one about the "Christian right." A body can get tired of the yelps that journalists and politicians emit when everyday Americans attest to and affirm the moral traditions of their culture.
In fact, the "Christian right" never asked for the fight it commenced a quarter of a century ago against attempts by judges to ram down society's open throat the judges' own notions about abortion, school prayer, creche scenes and such like. It was the judges who started this brawl. How come those who merely fight back, exercising their First Amendment rights, get accused of seeking darkly to turn culturally diverse America into a Puritan theocracy? Far the greater danger is the burgeoning of that which the Greeks called krytocracy -- government by judges -- and which conservative activists, secular and religious alike, name as a disease potentially fatal to our culture.
New Jersey may address its current perplexity by allowing civil unions, rather than by mandating gay marriage. We'll see. What many of us have seen thus far is morose enough: judges sitting in judgment on the norms and convictions of those wiser and more ancient than themselves. We haven't yet read the last chapter in this woeful saga.
Bill Murchison
Bill Murchison is the former senior columns writer for
The Dallas Morning News and author of
There's More to Life Than Politics.
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