A Stitch in Haste

Damn activist governors!

"It's a perfect example of a governor overstepping his authority and sidestepping the democratic process," said Brian Raum, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a national organization opposed to same-sex marriage. "It's an issue of public policy that should be decided by the voters.

This is, of course, utter nonsense, as anyone who has been following the New York situation is aware. As I explained at another blawg:

Paterson was simply implementing the unambiguous recent ruling by NY courts (up to and including the state equivalent of a denial of certiorari) that long-standing NY statute and precedent require recognition of valid out-of-state marriages, even when those marriages could not be entered into in NY itself.

How is "doing what the courts say must be done" a case of "executive activism"?

First prize, meanwhile, goes to Gary Bauer, who is lamenting that an "activist" governor (who of course must be immediately impeached) has "overturned" (somehow) a court ruling!

But the governor's action effectively circumvents the state's highest court, bows to foreign law and violates the principle of separation of powers by superseding the legislature. Again, we are witnessing the advance of the homosexual agenda by the most undemocratic means possible. The governor of New York and the appeals court judges should be impeached.

The courts defy the will of the legislature. The legislature defies the will of the people. The people defy the will of the people back in 2000. The governor defies the will of the courts. The courts defy the ... wait, what?

The consequentialist vacuousness of anti-gay social conservatives has never been more prominently on display.

Whatever it takes to rationalize your bigotry, folks. Whatever it takes...

(Bauer quote via Good As You.)