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Marriage Decision Dissent

Written by Kerby Anderson July 1 - 2015
The Supreme Court marriage decision announced last Friday has brought rejoicing from homosexuals as well as concern from most Christians and traditionalists. The 5-4 decision could have easily been a 4-3 decision if two of the Justices who should have recused themselves had done so. And though we have heard quite a bit from the majority decision written by Justice Kennedy and the other justices, it is worth hearing from four justices that wrote their dissent. Perhaps the only comments that most people have heard from these justices was the short video that Stephen Colbert produced to celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling and make fun of Justice Scalia. To its credit, the mainstream media did quote Justice Scalia’s warning that the court’s ruling was a “threat to American democracy.” Scalia acknowledged that his concern wasn’t so much about what the law says about marriage, but who rules Americans. “Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.” He also felt the ruling was arrogant. “The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003.” The other dissenting Justices also had much to say. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito explicitly warned that Americans with orthodox religious beliefs would be vulnerable. Alito, for example, warned that the decision “will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy.” Even if you celebrate this decision and believe same sex marriage should be legal, you should be concerned with the arrogance of this decision and the plain fact that the Supreme Court has become the Ruler of Americans. Viewpoints by Kerby Anderson

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