Twice now, residents of California have spoken loudly and clearly at the polls about not wanting gay marriage to be recognized in the state. Twice, the gay movement has been successful in coercing the courts into finding some way to negate the public will. The last go around, they were rather nasty about it, accusing the Mormon's of using church influence in the state to pass a constitutional amendment. Pro-gay marriage groups exerted their influence at the District Court level and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; neither one mentioned any problems with the filings.
When the case reached the Supreme Court level, the Court refused to decide whether or not the people's vote in California should be upheld; instead, it chose to cite a technicality that should have been cited at the lower court levels if it was going to be offered at all. The Court ruled that the person(s) bringing the case forward on appeal did not have the legal standing in the case to do so. Although I agree with that technicality, the effect of the Court's ruling was to immediately open the floodgates in California for gay marriages to resume.
What is worse is that the question still hasn't been decided. There is no doubt that everyone in that courtroom knew what the real question was. The fact that the same question has been before the Court twice without a true decision is not only disgraceful, the end result leaves every American wondering what in the hell we need the Court for. They didn't even remand the case back down the line; they simply ruled that the wrong parties to put the case on the table were in the room.
I'm a student of the law. I respect the technicalities of the law. But, this decision leaves me wondering why someone along the line didn't just simply use a gun to commit frontier justice.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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