RedState Morning Briefing
For August 5, 2010
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2. Seventy One Percent of Missouri Voters Agree With Candidate Obama
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A federal district judge in San Francisco has decided the citizens of a state prohibiting gay marriage violates the constitution. "Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage," said the judge, overturning several thousand years of history in one fell swoop. A majority of the citizens of California, the most progressive state in the union, disagree.
In fact, 32 states ban gay marriage by constitution or statute. An additional seven ban it, but have civil-union laws. The judge in San Francisco ruled yesterday that civil unions do not equate with marriage.
In fact, the judge focused on the historic cultural meaning of marriage before destroying the historic cultural meaning of marriage.
39 states have banned gay marriage.
It takes only 38 states to ratify a constitutional amendment.
A majority of the American public and three-quarters of the American states have been overruled by one federal judge in San Francisco. To be fair, the ruling only affects Northern California. It will be appealed. The odds are, for now, that the judge will be overruled.
But again and again the political elites in this country think they know best. From the mosque at Ground Zero to gay marriage to Obamacare, the majority of the people and states are forced to deal with a minority that does not respect them and democratic and legal institutions that oppose them.
If a minority of political elites and liberals can impose their will and values on a majority sufficient enough to amend the constitution, it is time for the majority to respond with constitutional force.
In Thomas Jefferson's words, "In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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2. Seventy One Percent of Missouri Voters Agree With Candidate Obama
On Tuesday, Missouri voters went to the polls. Among other things, the voters decided on Proposition C, a statute exempting Missouri from the individual mandate from Obamacare. By an overwhelming percentage, voters rejected Obamacare and passed Prop C (71.1 to 28.9). This ardent rejection of the individual mandate puts Missouri voters on par with then-Candidate Obama who, during the 2008 primary, attacked Sen Hillary Clinton's health care plan because it contained an individual mandate.
For those of you who don't remember, here's video of President Obama sounding much like his opposition just a few short months later.
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