California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Proposition 8

For centuries the truth about marriage was accepted as a part of the Natural Law. Today the California Supreme Court left any change in the hands of the voters.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - The Supreme Court of California has upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 8. The voter approved initiative defined marriage as only between a man and a woman. The Court was asked to rule on the measure by several homosexual activist groups who filed lawsuits alleging that it was unconstitutional.

The whole world has been watching California. Once again, the State which has led the way on so many fronts in the Cultural Revolution currently underway in the West is the site of the newest volley in the battle to create some new status of "marriage" for homosexual relationships. Today, the Supreme Court of that State has at least slowed the effort down.

Homosexual activists have skillfully reframed the debate by recasting this newest front in their Cultural Revolution as a struggle for "marriage equality." The move is one more example of their use of verbal engineering, what the late C.S. Lewis properly called "Verbicide", the murder of a word. They are certainly masterful at it.

The stakes are extraordinarily high. With the growing efforts to call protracted homosexual relationships and living arrangements a new kind of 'marriage' the very ground upon which civil society is built is being rocked. Certainly the effort is not over with this decision. In fact the Court left some 18,000 civil 'marriages' between homosexuals which occurred prior to the passage of Proposition 8 in place.

Heterosexual, lifelong marriage is the stable foundation of the family. True marriage and the family founded upon it constitute the first society and the first cell of all civil societies. This position has been accepted across Cultural and National boundaries. At least it was, until these efforts to call the relationship between homosexual paramours a "marriage."

For centuries the truth about marriage was accepted as a part of the "Natural Law." It still is. But some have chosen to reject any such notion that there are norms to guide human behavior upon which we all agree and which can be discerned through the light of reason. After all, just consider the absolutely wrongful conferral of the status of a "right" upon the most barbaric and evil of acts, the killing of innocent children in the womb. This so called "right" was fashioned our of whole cloth by the U.S. Supreme Court with no basis in the constitution, science or the Natural Law. The True Right is the Right to Life.

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The Cultural Revolutionaries of our age have managed to shift the argument artfully on our efforts to defend and protect true marriage for the common good. They hoped that they had found a Court which could have moved their plan closer to its goal. However, the California Supreme Court did not do so. By a vote of 6-1 they recognized that the people of California had made the decision to keep marriage what it is and what it has always been.

Proposition 8 in California clearly expressed the will of the voters of California. In the wake of the relentless and continual efforts of the new cultural engineers, the people of that State amended the constitution to read what was always implied, that marriage is what it is, the lifelong union between one man and one woman ordered toward the bearing of children and creation of a family.

California activists began a flood of efforts by homosexual activists in other States to engage in this attempt at a new alchemy, calling for the changing of one thing into another by either legislative or judicial fiat. Iowa, Vermont, and Maine decided they wanted to call homosexual couples married and New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey are promising to do the same. In an age where the law is what the legislators or the judges say it is, such actions are becoming more common.

So the world watched and waited to see what the men and the women in the black robes in California would say. They came out from behind that velvet curtain. They upheld the vote of the people of California. This does not end the struggle of some homosexual activists to change the definition of marriage. After all, their goal is a nothing short of a Cultural Revolution.

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