Rebecca Hagelin: California and Marriage: Tarnished Days in the Golden State
Rebecca Hagelin writes on Townhall:
. . . This helps explain why it’s wrong to assume this ruling centers on discrimination. It doesn’t. We’re doing more here than just renaming an already existing arrangement. What we call — or don’t call — marriage actually matters. And there has to be some objective criteria. It can’t be left to each individual to decide what marriage is; the state has a crucial role to play. Otherwise, why can’t a man marry his sister? Or his daughter? Or his dog, for that matter? Why can’t he have multiple wives?
The fact is, the California Supreme Court has indulged here in the purest form of judicial activism — operating not from a desire to interpret the law as written, but to force the result it wanted from the beginning, regardless of whether it was correct (or whether it violated the will of the people) . . .