{"id":2571,"date":"2005-09-07T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2005-09-07T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:14:03","slug":"legislatures-courts-and-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/09\/legislatures-courts-and-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislatures, Courts, and Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that gay couples had a constitutional right to marry, conservative commentators excoriated the court for usurping &#8212; critics claimed &#8212; the rightful role of the legislature.  <!--more-->  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35832\">One critic wrote <\/a>that the <em>Goodridge<\/em> court ignored &#8220;the constitutionally created path to social change: legislation.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20031124-124443-6482r.htm\">Another critic stated<\/a> that &#8220;the legislature, not the courts, should be deciding how to make profound social changes.&#8221;  The amicus <a href=\"http:\/\/attorneygeneral.utah.gov\/Amicusbrfmarriage.htm\">brief filed by the Attorney General of Utah stated that<\/a> &#8220;The Court&#8217;s duty is to interpret and apply faithfully the marriage statutes adopted by the legislature.&#8221;  Similar statements came from a host of critics of the <em>Goodridge<\/em> decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the California legislature has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/09\/07\/MNGFGEJIR41.DTL\">passed a bill authorizing same-sex marriage<\/a>.  The bill was sent to Governor Arnold Scwarzenegger.  And he said . . . <\/p>\n<p>. . . &#8220;why don&#8217;t we just let the <em>courts<\/em> decide this issue, guys?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a cop-out.  But I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t last.  I&#8217;m eagerly awaiting editorials from World Net Daily and the Washington Times (and perhaps the Utah Attorney General as well), calling on Schwarzenegger to recognize and support the legislature&#8217;s decision in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that gay couples had a constitutional right to marry, conservative commentators excoriated the court for usurping &#8212; critics claimed &#8212; the rightful role of the legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}