OK, so I'm a little confused. Actually very confused. Yesterday, the Supreme court handed down 2 rulings, one on the Defense of Marriage Act, and one on California's Prop 8. Having been one of the 53% of California voters who cast a ballot in favor of Prop 8 when it passed, I was interested in reading the decisions in more detail.
I'm now of the opinion that the Supreme court contradicted itself with these 2 rulings.
First, in the DOMA decision, the court ruled 5-4 that the ultimate and final authority should be given to the states regarding the definition of marriage.
Logically, that would mean Prop 8 would be upheld because 53% of California voters voted for their state to define marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Yet, mind boggingly, in the Prop 8 decision, the court then ruled 5-4 that California's citizens neither have the right to define marriage as they choose in their own state, nor to defend their own definition in a federal court.
To rewind, Prop 8 was proposed on the 2008 ballot after 5 judges on the California State Supreme Court arbitrarily decided that same-sex "marriage" should be legal. The California Marriage Protection Act (Proposition 8) was then petitioned for and placed on the ballot, and was passed by 53% of the vote (the 3rd time CA had voted for a similar bill, BTW - winning with 63% in 1998 and 58% in 2002). And, as has been the case every time a state's citizens have voted on the definition of marriage, voters chose to define marriage as between 1 man and 1 woman (unwittingly or wittingly upholding the Biblical definition of marriage which, as a Christian, is the most important factor to me).
However, a district court judge (and admitted homosexual) then struck down the proposition and overruled the will of millions of citizens because, in his opinion, a state's citizens amending their own state constitution, is unconstitutional. Madness. At least 37 states still have not fallen prey to state legislators and judges hijacking their laws and overruling their will in favor of a radical political agenda. It would seem I moved out of Sodom er, I mean California and into the land of Canaan, er..I mean North Carolina, just in time.
Anyway, years later, here we are. Obviously the words "We the people" in the Constitution mean nothing anymore, it is now "We the elite few".
Without question, I believe these judges who handed down 2 contradictory rulings should be impeached. The constitution allows for impeachment of federal, state, and local judges and it has happened before. However, I'm afraid this America has gotten so far away from the Constitution and from it's Judeo-Christian heritage that no one cares anymore or, if they do, they don't think anything can be done.
"Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done."(Proverbs 17:23)
