February 21, 2004

Gay Marriage Movement—Okay, Now I See How This Is Going to Go.

The last couple of days I’ve been trying to figure out why the Right isn’t more concerned about this gay marriage movement. Everyone on the Right is speaking out loud and clear against it—but they don’t seem to be concerned about the May 17th date, the date on which the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has determined that that state will commence state-sanctioned marriage of gays.

The state-sanctioned part is key. What’s going on in San Francisco is just a stunt. They can forge all the marriage certificates they want—the marriages are still illegal. That’s because there’s a state law in California that says, marriage is between a man and a woman. The mayor of San Francisco has no legal authority to marry any gay couple.

But Massachusetts is different. In that state the Supreme Court has ruled that recognition of gay marriage is required by the Massachusetts state Constitution. Of course, that’s silly, and everybody knows it, since the state Constitution was written in 1780, and everybody knows that the framers of that Constitution did not support gay marriage. It’s just a power-grab by the extreme Left, using four activist judicial allies.

Nevertheless, there’s a full faith-and-credit clause of the U.S. Constitution that says states must accept things done in other state that are legal in those states. So gay “marriages” performed legally in Massachusetts would be considered legal in other states—even though the vast majority of Americans are against gay marriage.

And that’s what’s been the big question to me the past few days. Why isn’t the Right more concerned about the May 17th date? I was looking all over for this. Finally I found it yesterday.

Rush had the answer. The faith-and-credit clause cuts both ways. If Massachusetts does carry out gay “marriages,” those marriages will be challenged by other states who don’t wish to be tyrannized and ruled by activist courts kow-towing to the Left in defiance of the will of the people.

...at some point it will be adjudicated by the Supreme Court, because of the full faith-and-credit clause. There’s a big problem, having to do with states being forced to accept what happens in other states. So a couple “married” in San Francisco has to be recognized as such if they move to Missouri. That’s where this is going to get tested.

Rush is referring to San Francisco, but any such “marriages” performed in Massachusetts are going to be tested the same way.

Rush goes on to point out how the Left is decimating itself over this issue. This is just the issue to underline still further to the majority of Americans how out-of-control the Left is. Prominent Democrats are scrambling to shut down the gay marriage movement.

The bottom line is, my friends, let them do that. Let Chicago do it, let all these liberal Democrat cities do this, and let’s watch the Democrats run away from this as fast as they can. Barbara Boxer is running away from this in San Francisco. Barbara Boxer, second day in a row, issued a statement saying she doesn’t like this, she doesn’t think it has any place, she doesn’t want any part of it. Barney Frank doesn’t want this going anywhere. Barney Frank is lecturing these people – stop, this is an election year, do this next year, we told you about this yesterday. Barney Frank who is for gay marriage – just not now because it’s an election year – wants these people to stop, and guess what these people are not even listening to their Democrat leaders. They’re so far off the reservation they’re walking down the aisle practically without a preacher. And, by the way, they don’t need one anyway for what they’re doing.

The continual rage and anger of the Left… is going to destroy nothing but the Left. The appearance to me at this time is that the Democrats are going to lose massively in the November Presidential election. They will then have an opportunity to disassociate themselves from the extremists in their party, and to reinvent themselves as a party that loves and supports America.