MARRIAGE: Not judges' decision

HB 425 has been passed in the Idaho State House and is now in the Senate. The bill extends the marriage benefits to same-sex “marriages.”

The State constitution states “A marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” God has ordained marriage to be a man and woman, and to be fruitful and multiply. No tyrant in history has been so bold or crass as to force upon his “subjects,” no matter how tyrannical, to institutionalize marriage between two of the same sex. Should the oath of office be rewritten to say that our representatives will uphold the Constitution to mean whatever five or more justices tell them it means? Is it possible that to defend the constitution from enemies domestic could include five black robed judges?

Consider what Scalia wrote in his dissenting opinion on “gay” marriage:

“Today’s decree says that...the ruler of 320 million Americans is a majority of nine lawyers....The opinion is the furthest extension in fact — and the furthest extension one can even imagine of the Court’s claimed power to create ‘liberties’ that the Constitution and its amendments neglect to mention. This practice of revision by an unelected committee of nine...robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”

Contact your State Senator to vote no on HB425.

STEVE TANNER

Bonners Ferry