Posted under Conservatism & Judicial Activism & Political Philosophy & Pro-Life
In ruling against the will of the people when he struck down California’s Prop 8, Judge Walker based his decision on liberals’ favorite part of the Constitution:
Because Proposition 8 disadvantages gays and lesbians without any rational justification, Proposition 8 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The 14th amendment is the Swiss Army knife for Alinskyite and Gramscian social revolutionaries. Here are some other significant decisions based on that amendment:
Murray vs. Curlett, 1963, banned prayer in schools
Roe v. Wade, 1973, created the right to abortion
Stone v. Graham, 1980, banned 10 Commandments displays
Plyler v. Doe, 1982, made anchor babies US citizens
Lawrence v. Texas, 2003, struck down anti-sodomy laws
Notice that every one of these Supreme Court decisions assaulted traditional society while gutting States’ Rights. The radicals who intend to reconstruct society know they need a powerful weapon to impose their agenda, and there’s no better weapon for that than a centralized government with no limits to its power.
Weaver on 07 Aug 2010 at 8:21 pm #
Nice list.
I bet the market is better at reconstructing a society than government force though. The communist-led countries of eastern Europe for example are very religious and traditional today, at least relative to western Europe.