By: Lynn

Feedback from around the nation on the same sex “marriage” ruling:

This will always be immoral. California’s highest court has created a fundamental marriage right out of behavior — homosexuality — that is fundamentally wrong and destructive.

Everywhere Americans turn — TV, media, schools, in corporations and the courts — this unhealthy and immoral behavior is being promoted.

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Below is a Press Release:

California Supreme Court Betrays “We the People” on Marriage 5/15/2008

Washington, D.C. — Today the California Supreme Court imposed, through judicial fiat, so-called same-sex marriage on Californians, thus totally disregarding the sanctity of marriage and the will of the people. In 2000, Californians adopted Proposition 22 to protect marriage and maintain its definition as a union between one man and one woman, and expressly prohibiting the state from recognizing same sex marriages.

To ensure that marriage is protected and the voice of the people is heard, a constitutional marriage amendment must be placed on the November ballot and national efforts need to be made to generate a federal constitutional marriage amendment. The decision must be removed from the hands of judicial activists and returned to the rightful hands of the people.

Matt Barber, CWA Policy Director for Cultural Issues, said The California Supreme Court has engaged in the worst kind of judicial activism today, abandoning its role as an objective interpreter of the law and, instead, legislating from the bench. It’s absurd to suggest that the framers of the California state constitution could have ever imagined there’d be a day when so-called same-sex marriage would even be conceptualized, much less seriously considered. If anyone then had suggested the ridiculous notion, early Californians would have laughed their smocks off.

So-called same-sex marriage is counterfeit marriage. Marriage is, and has always been, between a man and a woman. We know that it’s in the best interest of children to be raised with a mother and a father. To use children as guinea pigs in radical San Francisco-style social experimentation is deplorable.

The majority of Americans recognize the fact that legitimate marriage and family are cornerstones of a healthy society. Reasonable people have had enough and are refusing to allow radical extremists to redefine marriage and family into oblivion. So-called same-sex marriage is a ridiculous and oxymoronic notion that has been forced into popular lexicon by homosexual activists and their extremist left-wing allies.

If people who engage in homosexual behavior want to dress up and play house, that’s their prerogative, but we shouldn’t destroy the institutions of legitimate marriage and family in order to help facilitate a counterfeit.

On a positive note, the Court’s decision today will likely serve as a wake-up call to both Californians and their fellow Americans across the country. I’m certain this decision will help fuel a California marriage amendment and re-ignite debate over a federal amendment which would protect marriage as between one man and one woman.

For Information Contact:
Natalie Bell
(202) 488-7000
media.cwfa.org

And of course James Dobson has weighed in on this issue:

Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, is outraged by the court’s blatant disregard for marriage and the voters of California.

The will of the people has now arrogantly been declared null and void, he said. In so doing, the justices have undermined and endangered the basic building block of society, which has been honored and preserved in every nation on earth through most of human history.

Glen Lavy, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the only way to permanently protect marriage in California is to amend the state constitution. A law, like Prop. 22, does not carry the same legal weight as a constitutional amendment.

The court’s decision clearly demonstrates that marriage is not ultimately safe from tampering by activists and others in government until the voters have amended the constitution, he said.

ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition of local, state and national groups, is working to place a constitutional marriage amendment on the California ballot in November. The group submitted 1.1 million signatures, which are currently under review for validation. Ron Prentice, who is working with the coalition, is optimistic the initiative will qualify for the ballot.

In November, the people will have an opportunity to overrule the Court’s decision by passing a constitutional amendment, Prentice said, and California’s voters must respond in strength and number.

Matt Barber, policy director of cultural issues for Concerned Women for America, hopes the court’s decision will serve as a wakeup call to Californians and fellow Americans across the country.

Marriage is, and has always been, between a man and a woman. We know that it’s in the best interest of children to be raised with a mother and a father, he said. This decision will help fuel a California marriage amendment and re-ignite debate over a federal amendment which would protect marriage as between one man and one woman.

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