The State of Marriage

Sunday November 28 2004

This ultra-conservative US Supreme Court took a surprising position on the same sex marriage issue this week. They declined to hear the case without comment. This is unexpected news form the court that has been pushing the President's fascist agenda for the past 4 years. I suspect that the majority of the court was in the pocket of the Bush dynasty since the unprecedented ruling that placed him in power following the 2000 election. Apparently the court’s debt to him is finally paid in full. Thankfully, they will no longer be doing his dirty work.

The Constitution gives the right to define marriage to the states. Shouldn’t it be the right of the individual? What harm is done if I marry a tree or a dog? Or two dogs? If Bill O’Reilly were to marry the MacGwire twins would society really suffer all that much?

If John Kerry had been elected, he might have appointed Bill Clinton to the court and promoted Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Chief Justice That, my friends, would be a Supreme Court we could be proud of. Those appointments might have even balanced out the court enough to give it credibility again. Kerry might also have ordered the CIA to assassinate Clarence Thomas and then appointed Julian Bond or Louis Farakahn in his place. He might also have proposed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a choice of the people. After all, a person chooses who they have sex with. What is so different about marriage? Better yet, he might have eliminated marriage altogether. This approach would have, if nothing else, taken the marriage penalty tax issue off the table.

Many people believe that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is not much longer for this world. Appointed by Nixon, promoted to Chief Justice by Reagan, it is no wonder that this man has single handedly kept the United States in the Stone Age. President Bush will most likely replace him upon his death or retirement (or forced retirement due to senility) by Antonin Scalia, another Reagan appointee, or worse yet Clarence Thomas who is little more than the Republican’s houseboy on the court. That would be a nightmare.

Perhaps we should be looking forward to what a President Hillary Rodham-Clinton Supreme Court might look like. Hillary is not above having troublemakers eliminated. She could easily cause two or three justices disappear, and replace them with appointments from the 9th Circuit Court. Maybe she could propose a constitutional amendment that legalizes drug use for gay married pro-lifer's who are against the war. Or maybe she would legalize abortions for illegal immigrants who manufacture methamphetamine for the purpose of assisted suicide.

We can only hope.

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