So, Justice Kennedy, it’s not just a matter of what two homosexual advocates do to each other’s bodies. It’s about a differing view of our nation and its sovereignty.
The Supreme Court, upholding hundreds of years of English Common Law tradition, said a state legislature “could legitimately act … to protect ‘the social interest in order and morality,’” (Paris Theater I v. Slaton, 1973). The court also ruled that there is no constitutional right to sodomy (Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986). But European courts ruled differently, so who are American hayseeds to resist? Why should we sacrifice
But as Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer told us, we should get accustomed to a lack of sovereignty and to increased globalization. During his recent interview with ABC News, Breyer said the world is growing together through “commerce and through globalization” and we will find out in coming years how our Constitution “fits into the governing documents of other nations…”
In 1966, did anyone realize Griswold v. Connecticut would lead to the further fabrication of so called rights? Griswold begat Roe v. Wade, and Roe begat the death of more than 40 million Americans. Now the High Court, to quote Justice Scalia, “…decree[d] the end of all morals legislation.” Does anyone know how
The good news is that the fight is not finished,
The Declaration of Independence refers four times to the existence of a Creator God. And as Thomas Jefferson once said, “Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his justice will not sleep forever.” What modern European court embraces the philosophy of a Creator God and His higher law? Not one.
At the beginning of our republic, George Washington asked why Americans should surrender our great legal, social, and political advantages to European influence. “Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of
In 2003, let us ask, why indeed?
Alan Sears is the president of the Alliance Defense Fund, the national legal organization that has fought more battles and won more cases defending the traditional definition of marriage. Sears is also the co-author of "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today."
