Bill's Notes

[Industrialblog, March 24, 2004]
My suggestion for the FMA controversy
The problem with any "gay marriage" amendment is it doesn't really solve the problem. The problem, Constitutionally, isn't gay marriage. The problem is hermeneutics.

This language needs to be cleaned up a bit, but my suggested amendment to the U.S. Constitution would be:


1. Judges can't just make up shit anymore and read it into the U.S. Constitution.

2. Judges who attempt to make up shit and read it into the U.S. Constitution shall be removed from office, disbarred, tarred, feathered, and driven across the land with an electric cattle prod.

3. Congress shall enforce this amendment with appropriate legislation.

ctl (mail) (www):
heh
3.24.2004 12:24pm
Steve Johnson (mail):
Exactly! It's not so much that they made up the right to gay marriage as that they assumed the authority to make up rights. This is, what, the tenth or twelfth major right the courts have just asserted is in the Constitution because, well, if we were writing it now in 2004 it'd surely be included?

"Mr. Chief Justice Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it."
3.24.2004 12:24pm

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