The Supreme Court has kicked the Proposition 8 ball, somewhere.  Governor Brown stopped celebrating long enough to order everyone to get ready to marry same sex couples.   But at least Governor Brown gave some time for opponents  to appeal. 

The Ninth District Court immediately removed the stay, telling California to go ahead with same sex marriages.  Attorney General Kamela Harris almost immediately conducted a same sex marriage ceremony herself. 

The gay community is celebrating and the main stream media is cheering.  Unfortunately, they are all missing the point.  This really has nothing to do with same sex marriage.  It is far more important than that.   One Judge arbitrarily decided that the California constitution did not matter and he overturned the decision by 7,001,084 voters in California.  When the Governor and the Attorney General refused to appeal his decision, they were also deciding that political correctness trumps our constitution.  That endangers every citizen in this state: 

Following is the oath of office for Governor of California and the Attorney General of California:

“I, ___________________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter.

Both Governor Brown and Attorney General Harris had a duty to defend Proposition 8, whether they liked it or not.  If they did not want to appeal the decision of Judge Walker, they should have either resigned their office, or recused themselves and delegated this to someone else within the California Government.  They refused to do either.  Instead, they deliberately violated their oath of office.

The California Constitution is deisgned to defend all of us against tyranny.  Following is a link to the DECLARATION OF RIGHTS found in the California Constituion:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_1

This time the Governor and the Attorney General didn’t like section 7.5  Suppose, in the future,  we get a Governor and an Attorney General that decides they don’t like Section 8:

 SEC. 8.  A person may not be disqualified from entering or pursuing

a business, profession, vocation, or employment because of sex, race,

creed, color, or national or ethnic origin.

If you do not believe this is possible, you haven’t been paying attention to countries governed by Sharia law. 

We either have a constitution or we don’t.  We either have public officials who are willing to abide by their oath of office or we don’t. The duty to uphold the constitution trumps political correctness.

The California constitution itself has been put behind the 8 ball.  That is a very dangerous place to be. 

TDM