The always-formidable Rich Lowry of National Review has penned a most glorious sentence, well actually, it’s a clause. Here’s the build-up to it, in his recent column arguing against the supposed inevitability of gay marriage:
“ . . . Nation-wide, no referendum simply upholding traditional marriage has ever lost, and even in Maine, voters in 2009 reversed a gay-marriage law passed by the legislature.”
“These state constitutional provisions constitute irreducible facts on the ground. Reversing them by democratic means will be the work of a generation. For the foreseeable future, the country will be largely traditional on marriage, with enclaves of same-sex unions as boutique blue-state institutions lacking full legitimacy. Rather than waiting for the tide of history to do its inexorable work, advocates of gay marriage really want the Supreme Court to impose their new definition of marriage.”
And here’s the golden clause, with emphasis added:
” Inevitability’s full name is Anthony McLeod Kennedy , the swing-vote justice who is perfectly capable of remaking marriage by judicial fiat.”
That clause makes for my kind of bumper sticker.
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