Posted by
RecknHavic on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:39:31 PM
Recent discussion concerning the ill advised ruling by The California Supreme Court to allow "gay" marriage, at The Irish Rican http://irishrican.blogspot.com/ (post: California, Rino's and The Demise of Democracy), got me wondering if this is the heralded "slippery slope" of anything goes marriage. Apparently the Courts decision is based on a loose interpretation of substantive due process laws. Substantive due process is the Courts (or any Courts) attempt to guarantee freedoms that do not appear in the plain text of the Constitution.
If the new interpretation of marriage is now seen as an individual having a "protected privacy interest in establishing a legally recognized family with his or her person of choice"; who's to say that the "person of choice" can't be a sibling? Or a child? Or multiple "persons of choice"?
This ruling in California is just another hole in the dike that will soon turn into a flood of "choice" unions. And the result could well be the damnnation of America.