Saturday, May 15, 2004

I read online this morning that the governor of New Hampshire has signed a bill blocking gay marriages performed in Massachusetts from being recognized in his state. Although the story itself took no sides, you'd better believe this governor will be reviled in the major news media before too long. And all for following the constitution. It is the privilege of the legislative and the executive branch to form laws for the polity, whether the nation or a state. The courts may only interpret the laws. People worry far too much about the Patriot Act and the supposed "broad" powers it gives to the President without thinking that already the judicial branch is overreaching its authority by force-reading a state constitution to protect what is clearly against the law of nature and nature's God and then demanding that the legislative branch write a law that reflects this "finding." I hope more governors will react the way New Hampshire's governor has. It's about time people stopped playing dead for the courts.

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