The Other Election: Gay Rights Take A Tumble

Posted by Larry Miller on November 4, 2009 under Why | Be the First to Comment

Amid all the excitement of conservative resurgence in Virginia and New Jersey, it was easy to miss another important victory… that being the repeal of Maine’s law legalizing homosexual marriage. It was a hard fought battle with 53% of the voters electing to support traditional marriage between a man and a woman. All thirty times before when the issue was brought to the voters, same sex marriage was repudiated by the American citizens.

Homosexual leaders are crying out that they are being deprived of essential human rights. They are obviously out of sync with our founding fathers who understood that our creator endowed us with the rights we enjoy and that our government’s only function in this regard was to recognize and protect these rights. Neither the state nor the federal government created any of our inalienable rights. Now we see this fringe group encouraging our government at various levels to create a right that is antithetical to the creator of our genuine rights.

This thinking results from complete misunderstanding of individual rights, their source and the natural law from which they were derived. This thinking may satisfy immediate perceived needs, but places all of us in the precarious position of having a legislature or bureaucrat controlling which rights you do and do not enjoy. Even if this were a legitimate right, the process would reduce Americans from citizens to subjects.

Unfortunately this thinking has infected courts and legislatures throughout the nation, as evidenced by the fact that all five states that recognize same sex marriage have had it imposed either by such courts or legislatures over the objections of the people. Nowhere has the practice attained sufficient popular support to achieve their goals.

This is not the only issue where the will of the people was cast aside by the elitists who believe they just know better than we poor uninformed peasants who cling to our god and guns. We find ourselves getting bent out of shape when our Obamessiah charges ahead disregarding our American values, but it has been going on for years.

Matt Staver, of Liberty Counsel, commented “Maine dramatically illustrates the will of the people, and politicians should wake up and listen.” This is our problem in a nutshell. Politicians are not listening to the people… although after Tuesday we can hope that some will get the message and begin paying more attention to the voters than lobbyists, contributors and anti-American special interest groups.

So Tuesday not only threw some controlling big government types out of office and hopefully put the fear of the voters into some politicians. We owe a debt of gratitude to all who did the work the achieve these victories, and we owe it to ourselves to keep up the pressure. Tuesday proved we can see statists chased from positions of power. Let’s go for more!