President Bush should make the preservation of marriage the social issue of 2004. Every candidate, including Gov. Dean if nominated by the Democrats, should be forced to declare himself for or against the idea that marriage is restricted to men and women.
Gay activists and their media auxiliaries will denounce this as the politics of divisiveness and hate. But America has begun to catch on to the tactic of smearing as bigots and haters any who resist this new social revolution. And the nation has begun to see through the strategy of imposing that revolution, not through the democratic process of winning hearts, minds and votes, but through the dictatorial process of getting collaborator-judges to issue court degrees.
"The worse the better" is an old revolutionary slogan. The more stupid, arrogant and oppressive a regime becomes, the more the people turn to revolution to be rid of it. The principle applies to counterrevolutions, as well. The more insolent, arrogant and dictatorial judges become, the more they build up the cordite of counterrevolution.
In a half century, we have watched judges and justices arbitrarily strike down laws against pornography, denying communities the power to prevent the pollution of cultures. We have seen the killing of unborn children declared a constitutional right. We have seen children forcibly bused across cities to meet some jurist's idea of what is the proper racial balance.
Judges have declared the pledge of allegiance to be a violation of the Constitution. They
have ordered high school teams not to pray before games. They have ordered students not to say a prayer at graduation. They have told teachers what they may and may not teach about God and man. They have declared homosexual sodomy a constitutional right.
Time to go to the root of America's social crisis: the power usurped by judges and imposed against the will of the people and their chosen representatives.
Legislatures and executives should begin recapturing their lost powers, or we should find new legislators and executives with the courage to restore the constitutional balance of the Fathers. Let the counterrevolution begin where that first revolution began, with a new Boston Tea Party.