For Faith & Family | Same-Sex Marriage: Are the People Sovereign, or is it to be the Courts? | Comments http://faithandfamily.com/ This feed provides all comments on "Same-Sex Marriage: Are the People Sovereign, or is it to be the Courts?." en web-master@erlc.com ℗ & © 2009 ERLC Comment 1 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment1 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment1 Time to exercise our right to recall our Governor and Judges as we did before.

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:33:28 CST Comment 2 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment2 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment2 Judges must do the moral thing and interpret the law using judicial restraint. Thus, not interpret the law to fit “their own political agenda”. This is self serving and not serving the people. Judges like this must be held accountable or more problems will occur obviously.

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:42:05 CST Comment 3 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment3 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment3 The first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court arrogantly said “The Constitution is what the judges say it is.”  The prerogative of judicial review is itself not in the Constitution; the judges arrogated the power to themselves and no one has challenged them.  The proper role of courts - where constitutions are concerned - is to apply the constitutions to laws passed by legislatures.  That is, they are to examine laws to interpret their meanings in light of the constitutional language, not to alter the meaning of constitutions to conform to newly-passed laws, to poll results, or to attitudes in a morally and spiritually bankrupt Europe. 

  Th. Jefferson said that our constitutional system would only work until/unless the judges got the bit in their teeth and took off with our constitutional republic, changing it into something unrecognizable.

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:18:46 CST Comment 4 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment4 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment4 Sometimes we’re wrong. Would a popular vote have ended slavery or segregation? I think not.

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:22:01 CST Comment 5 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment5 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment5 I have to agree with Jed. While I understand the point of the article and agree in some ways, the point remains that the Constitution’s Bill of Rights exists to ensure that the rights of the people are not infringed; in this way, the Constution and the courts work to limit the “tyranny of the majority.” Judicial review exists to ensure that laws conform to our Constitution. Whether or not this specific case is one where a law infringes on basic rights is a debate to be had, but the process of judicial review exists for a very good reason. We would not be so quick to condemn the courts if the people passed a law that denied Christians the right to marry.

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:44:14 CST Comment 6 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment6 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment6 Jed, you stated/asked, “Sometimes we’re wrong. Would a popular vote have ended slavery or segregation? I think not.”
If the popular vote had been guided by the moral standards of the Word of God; then the answer to your question would be “Yes, the popular vote would have ended these terrible things.”

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:31:11 CST Comment 7 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment7 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment7 If the moral standards are based on the Word of God then I agree with the popular vote. Sorry, I wasn’t clear here.

]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:51 CST Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:06 CST Comment 8 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment8 http://faithandfamily.com/fff/article/same-sex-marriage-are-the-people-sovereign-or-is-it-to-be-the-courts#comment8 On Nov 20th, 2008, at 10:44am, Brian wrote:
“…the Constitution’s Bill of Rights exists to ensure that the rights of the people are not infringed; in this way, the Constitution and the courts work to limit the “tyranny of the majority.””

Each and every person’s rights SHOULD be defended. But, what are our rights? Where we are getting sidetracked in this entire matter is the issue of who, or what, determines those rights. It is God who gives us rights, therefore; it is His views that we should seek on these matters. Who created marriage?  What did it look like?  Do we think we have the right to alter that institution? I love America and would rather live no where else, but; I will only support American values until they conflict with God’s values. I realize that many do not care what the Bible has to say about their life, but that does not mean that those who do care, whether they be the minority or the ‘tyrranical’ majority, should remain silent.

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