Posted by
TheChair on Saturday, October 11, 2008 3:19:22 AM
The Connecticut Supreme Court today forced same-sex marriage onto its citizenry without its consent, not that consent would have made it any more legitimate. As with the California
Marriage Cases decision, the Connecticut court split 4-3. As with the California Supreme Court, this was a single-justice revolution upsetting in Connecticut the most basic and universal social institution the world has ever known. After skimming it, I see the legal reasoning is just about as awful in the new case as in the California one, and in some aspects, worse. For example, the Connecticut case expressly holds that same-sex couples have "the same interest" in acquiring children as heterosexual couples. Uh-huh. Newsflash to Connecticut Supreme Court: no same-sex couple can create or acquire children without heterosexual coupling, i.e., without cheating nature and God's plan.
Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court once called his own Court a nine-headed Caesar. That's about right with these renegade state supreme courts. But even Caesar never dreamed of this kind of hubris. Thus the stakes are again raised for California voters to restore their democratic primacy by reclaiming normal marriage. If Arizona and Florida do the same thing, Connecticut might feel the shock waves. This thing will some day wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where it often looks to state trends as a factor in its social issue decisions. The more states with normal marriage, the stronger the case for it will be in the High Court.