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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (72141)8/10/2003 6:50:23 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
One further thought on the subject of judicial fiat. Yeah, that's not a good thing. But a constitutional amendment is only marginally better. You can at least say that a constitutional amendment is a product of legislative action rather than judicial action. But the legislative action still usurps the proper role of the states in question. Seems to me that this matter is most appropriately dealt with state by state. Whenever you override that process, you get a backlash, which then begets a reverse backlash, and then the courts end up trumping everything anyway. I say let the states do their thing partly because it's the right thing to do and partly so we can see where the natural process takes us. If a handful of states legislate for civil unions for gays, is that really the end of the world? Is stopping that really worth abandoning principles re how our government works?
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