Reagan disgusted with California; Judicial Fiat' Condemned by Judges

By Phil Brennan: Reacting to the decision of the California Supreme Court to ignore Proposition 22, which declares that "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," and was passed with a whopping 61 percent of the vote, an outraged Michael Reagan urged California voters to join him in refusing to vote for any ballot measures in the State of California in the 2008 November election since the courts can simply nullify their votes whenever they want to. Reagan, whose father Ronald Reagan served two terms as California’s governor before winning the presidency in 1980, said "I am taking my ballot and mailing it directly to the Supreme Court of California at 350 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102-4797 to allow the judges to decide for us. They’re going to do it anyway.” . . . [Read More]

By Bob Unruh: Two members of the California Supreme Court, which . . . ruled the state cannot prevent homosexuals from "marrying," have condemned the decision as "judicial fiat.""A bare majority of this court, not satisfied with the pace of democratic change, now abruptly forestalls that process and substitutes, by judicial fiat, its own social policy views for those expressed by the People themselves," said the dissent written by Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter and joined by Associate Justice Ming W. Chin. "Undeterred by the strong weight of state and federal law and authority, the majority invents a new constitutional right," the opinion said. The majority opinion, . . . trashed society's traditional and biblical institution of marriage, opening up the option for same-sex duos to be "married" because retaining the historic definition "cannot properly be viewed as a compelling state interest." . . . [Read More]

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