"If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is 'no legitimate state interest' for purposes of proscribing that conduct," wrote Scalia, " . . . what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising '(t)he liberty protected by the Constitution.'"
Abolishing the right to life paved the way for establishing a right to same-sex sodomy. Establishing a right to same-sex sodomy paved the way for a right to same-sex marriage.
This progression is rooted in the single false premise that the law cannot be founded on God's unchanging rules of morality.
By adopting this false premise, judges reject America's founding principle. Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." His archrival, the Anglican Alexander Hamilton, declared: "The sacred rights of mankind . . . are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." The road to freedom, our Founders believed, runs through legislatures, where elected representatives seek, through constitutionally limited government, to honor God's law in our own.
For the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to reconcile its view of human rights with the view espoused by our Founders, the justices would have to argue that the Creator had endowed man with an inalienable right to same-sex marriage.
That, of course, is transparently absurd. So, instead, the judges labored, as so many American judges have in recent years, to divorce the rules of law from the rules of God.
Yet, if God is not the ultimate author of our law, who will be? Whoever has the power to impose their will on others. This week it was four Massachusetts judges -- who manhandled marriage, denying the truth that it is a match made in heaven. Americans now have no choice but to answer such judges with a constitutional amendment expressly recognizing that marriage is a sacred union solely comprised of one man and one woman.