The decision by a federal judge in San Francisco that nullified a voter-approved amendment to California’s constitution, thereby inventing a right to same-sex marriage, has reignited the debate about the proper role of the courts in our society.
Supporters of Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision have hailed it as a thing of wonder, a new heavenly body in our constitutional constellation. More sober-minded Americans can only recoil at the arrogance and temerity of an unelected attorney’s contemptuous disregard for the freely cast ballots of millions.
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