The Death of Traditional Marriage in California? by Motte Brown on 05/16/2008 at 10:55 AM

Yesterday, four judges from the California Supreme Court decided to go against the will of the people and redefine the institution of marriage to include same-sex couples. It was a blatant act of judicial activism with no constitutional basis whatsoever.

Here is Dr. James Dobson's public statement addressing the ruling:

"In 1863, Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address that ours is a government 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' Well, not in the state of California, where four imperious and unelected justices have just overridden the will of the voters. In 2000, Proposition 22 defined marriage as being exclusively between one man and one woman; the initiative passed by an overwhelming margin of 61 to 39 percent. That emphatic expression of the will of the people has now arrogantly been declared null and void.

"In so doing, the justices have undermined and endangered the basic building block of society, which has been honored and preserved in every nation on earth through most of human history. What an outrage. It will be up to the people of California to preserve traditional marriage by passing a constitutional amendment in the November elections. Only then can they protect themselves from this latest example of judicial tyranny."

Thirty-five years ago, judicial activists on the U.S. Supreme Court "found" a right to abortion. And 50 million dead pre-born babies has been the result. God only knows the ramifications of this outrageous ruling.