WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proponents of so-called homosexual marriage are trying to pretend that New York’s recent enactment of a pro-same-sex marriage law is just one more step in the inevitable march of history to establish yet another new civil right.
This could be a trend but it is not about any increase in public acceptance of homosexual marriage. The trend is the continuing injustice of activist judges trying to thwart legitimate legislation and the will of the citizenry.
Remember, it was the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which imposed homosexual marriage there even as liberal Massachusetts House Speaker Tom Birmingham refused to allow a vote on the issue in spite of a huge and successful petition drive by Massachusetts opponents to same-sex marriage.
Birmingham’s refusal to allow the issue to be listed on the ballot triggered massive protests at the capitol in Boston and made him second only to Whitey Bulger as the greatest disappearing act in the Commonwealth.
Birmingham’s short-lived campaign for Governor vanished and so did he. He has not been seen on the political landscape since.
What homosexual marriage proponents strain to portray as a wave of enlightenment is just smoke and mirrors trickery employed to disguise a grand scam in the public square.
The truth is that this is not really a movement but a ploy accomplished mostly by liberal judges with a heavy-handed assist from the liberal media. It looks like liberal judges will do everything within their power, and then some things beyond their legal power, to promote homosexual marriage and trample on the rights of those who oppose such same-sex unions.
The only genuine momentum in this fight is the long string of successes in state legislatures and the Congress by those opposing homosexual marriage.
Starting in 1996, Congress approved and President Bill Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. Starting with Alaska, Nebraska and Nevada, a long march of 42 states enacted similar statutes. Three of those have been overturned by judges but that means a healthy majority of 39 states still have these state laws in effect
After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court action, voters in 23 states amended their state constitutions to limit marriage to “a man and a woman.”
Homosexual marriage proponents have written-off any chance of rolling back the wave of pro-marriage legislation and have begun a desperate campaign to repeal DOMA.
Attorney General Eric Holder has abandoned the government’s responsibility to defend the duly-enacted DOMA and joined the rest of President Obama’s base in its attack on traditional marriage. In February, Mr. Holder announced the Justice Department would no longer defend the constitutionality of the law.
it looks like a game of musical chairs in Executive and Judicial branches of government with judges pushing aside the legislatures and enacting laws while the Obama Justice Department discards its responsibility to enforce and defend laws by rendering decisions on what its or is not Constitutional.
Washington’s power knows neither checks nor balances. It is improvisational government with no traceable connection to the Constitution.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said at a recent hearing on a bill which would repeal DOMA “it is not the role of the executive branch to determine what is and is not constitutional.” The role of the executive branch, he concluded, “is to execute and uphold the laws that Congress enacts.”
As Washington political observers note the growing desperation and frustration of the Obama Administration in addressing problems, large and small, it is important to watch the feverish attempts to rush the approval of the pet projects of the liberal agenda.
The more desperate the Left appears in flailing to get its way and get it now, the louder the bell seems to be tolling for the once-promising Obama presidency.
Andrea Lafferty is President of the Traditional Values Coalition (traditionalvaluescoalition.org), America’s largest non-denominational, grassroots church lobby, speaking on behalf of more than 43,000 allied churches. Readers may write her at TVC, 139 C Street SE, Washington, DC 20003.
