[BretLudwig]

((See, for context, RPO's "Christianity and the Survival of the West".

http://home.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/oliver.html

The West was Christendom, but Western Christianity was a special strain,
distinct from the arguably "straight stuff" ((Levantine Christianity,
which lives today in Orthodoxy and most specifically in the Middle East
churches, which have coexisted with Islam and Sephardic Judaism for a
millennium but which the insane Christian Zionist policies of the West
today are extirpating wholesale-Bret)) and very distinct from the
fundamentalist and quite insane flavor sold on TV and in megachurches in
America. Bret.)


California's Gay Marriage Decision And Post-Christian America

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the
editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a
scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense."

This was the ecstatic reaction of the New York Times to the California
Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a right to marry and
have their unions recognized as marriages.

Now there may be hugging around the newsroom at the Times, where one
senior writer said, a few years back, three-fourths of the folks who make
up the front page are gay. But this is just another streetlight on
America's darkening path to perdition as a society and republic.

To declare that homosexuals can marry is patently absurd. The very
definition of marriage is the union of a man and woman, first and
foremost, for the procreation of children.

To say two men who live together and engage in sex can be married renders
the idea and ideal of marriage meaningless. The court may declare it, but
it cannot redefine an institution that nature and nature's God have
already defined. As they say in Texas, you can put lipstick and earrings
on a pig, and call her Peggy Sue, but it's still a pig.

"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," Christ
taught. Through the Old Testament and into the epistles of St. Paul,
homosexual sodomy is an abomination leading to personal destruction and
damnation, one of the five sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance. How,
then, can four judges declare it to be integral to the sacrament of
marriage?

Well, we don't believe all that rot, comes the reply.

Fine, but Christianity is the cornerstone of Western Civilization. Since
the fall of Rome to our own time, nations have believed and acted on the
belief that marriage and traditional families are the cinderblocks on
which a society must be built. When these cinderblocks crumble, the
society collapses. The truth has been borne out in our own time.

With a third of all children born out of wedlock€”50 percent of all
Hispanic kids, 70 percent of black kids€”and half of all marriages ending
in divorce, the social indicators have recorded explosions€”in crime,
violence, drug and alcohol abuse, dropout rates, gang membership, and jail
and prison populations.

The correlation between prison inmates and broken homes, or homes never
created, is absolute. What armies of social scientists with six-figure
salaries today tell us, 12-year-olds knew 50 years ago.

Setting aside the risibility of the court's conduct, consider what it says
about us as a democratic republic.

We are supposed to be a self-governing people. "Here, sir, the people
rule." Elected representatives write our laws.

Yet, no Congress or state legislature ever voted to declare homosexual
unions a marriage. The idea has everywhere been rejected. Wherever it has
been on the ballot, same-sex marriage has been voted down. In the 13
states where it was on the ballot in 2004, it was defeated by 58 percent
to 85 percent€”the last figure rolled up in Mississippi, where black
Christian pastors told their flocks to go out and vote down the
abomination.

Californians have consistently expressed their opposition and voted
against recognizing the idea of homosexual marriages and granting the
benefits of married couples to same-sex unions. What is bigotry at the
Times is common sense to most Americans.

Homosexual marriage is not in the California constitution, else someone
would have discovered it in 160 years. Where, then, did the state Supreme
Court find this was a right?

Four of seven justices unearthed this right by consulting what Orwell
called their "smelly little orthodoxies." They then decided to overturn
the expressed will of the voters, declare their opinion law and order the
state of California to begin recognizing homosexual unions as marriages.
And they did it because they know the Times types will hail them as the
newest Earl Warrens.

Not long ago, a governor of California would have laughed at the court and
told the justices to go surfing, and ordered state officials not to issue
the marriage licenses. The voters would have put the names of the four
justices on the ballot in November and thrown them off the court, as they
did Chief Justice Rose Bird, a generation ago.

We used to have executives and legislators like that.

Thomas Jefferson came into office and declared the Alien and Sedition Acts
null and void, released all editors from jail, and refused to prosecute any
more or to enforce the law. Andrew Jackson said of the great chief justice:
"John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it."

In 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom handed out marriage licenses to
thousands of homosexuals. Today, conservative mayors in California, if
there are any, might engage in similar civil disobedience against this
latest judicial usurpation of the legislative power that belongs to
elected representatives and the people.

What's sauce for the goose, etc."


http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/080522_california.htm

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On May 27, 10:39*am, "BretLudwig" wrote:

By Patrick J. Buchanan

'Nuff said. LOL!