Comments on: “Landmark Mass. Decision on Gay Marriage Becomes Popular Text at Weddings”: Boston Globe

By: Chairm

Chairm — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:25:40 +0000

Typo correction: There can be no excuse for it.

By: Chairm

Chairm — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:23:50 +0000

The pro-SSM Goodrige opinion reads like a political speech and exemplifies the abuse of judicial review whereby the judge’s policy preference is declared in spite of the unambiguous and legitimate meaning of the law.

That is what the quotation celebrates. If this is the celebrated landmark that has SSMers nodding and smiling knowingly to each other, then, this demonstrates how the SSM campaign has taught a corruptive view of governance.

The court’s opinion is flat out wrrong. Wrong in outcome but, first and foremost, wrong in its proferred reasoning. There can be excuse for it.

By: Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:27:55 +0000

This reafirms a common expression of mine calling leftist jurisprudence “secular scripture”..

They dont have thousands of years of history, tradition and sacred text and rituals.

So they end up reading from a legal opinion at their wedding.

By: pentamom

pentamom — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:18:08 +0000

I don’t know exactly what it would be, but I get the feeling C.S. Lewis would have had something trenchant to say about people who seek to express meaning in their deepest relationships via civil law books. It has echoes of trying to warm yourself with a copybook.