Finding the Supreme Court’s Pony
Ronald Reagan was fond of describing the ultimate optimist: a young boy digging determinedly through a huge pile of horse manure, shouting “There’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!”
So here I am, that kid trying to find the pony buried in this pile of, ah … manure the Supreme Court just dumped on America.
This is not going to be easy. Saddam Hussein saddamized Iraq. The Supreme Court has sodomized America. On top of that, the Justices have resurrected Jim Crow Laws, only this time they are anti-white and anti-asian, not anti-black.
The pony in the manure pile is, as always, the opportunity that only a crisis can create.
The Supremes used the same non-existent Constitutional chimera — the “right to privacy” — to strike down Texas’s anti-sodomy law as it did 30 years ago to strike down anti-abortion laws in Roe v. Wade. More to the point — five out of nine Supremes did. In his brilliant dissent, Antonin Scalia put his finger on the issue when he said he would no more forbid Texas to have an anti-sodomy law than he would mandate that Texas must have such a law. In other words, it’s a state’s choice whether to have such laws or not and the Supreme Court has no Constitutional authority to rule that they don’t.
This same argument applies to anti-abortion laws. The Supreme Court has no authority, as Scalia clearly and correctly interprets the Constitution, to prevent a state from passing a law making abortion illegal (or legal).
The opportunity, then is to use the Supreme Court’s sodomizing of America as a catalyst for all conservative, indeed all pro-Constitution, groups to band together to achieve a Supreme Court that obeys the Constitution. This entails three specific action items:
• Informing George Bush that they will absolutely under no circumstances acquiesce to his nominating Alberto Gonzales or any other candidate who is not unapologetically pro-life and strictly interprets the Constitution.
• Submitting to the President a list of thoroughly-vetted acceptable candidates.
• Providing Bill Frist and the Senate leadership the support they need to force changes in Senate rules forbidding filibusters on judicial nominations.
If John Kerry can publicly announce that he will nominate to the Supreme Court only pro-abortion candidates with no resultant hue and cry from the media, then President Bush now has the public ability to overtly nominate only anti-abortion candidates. It is up to the President’s critical base of support to make sure he takes advantage of the opportunity to do so.
As far as the Supremes’ authorizing new Jim Crow Laws, what’s important to focus on is that they said a state may have an anti-white/asian Jim Crow law preferencing blacks in school admissions, not that a state must have such laws.
If there were such laws, this decision would have been similar to an overthrow of Roe v. Wade, allowing states a decision on whether to have laws like this or not. Once again, it provides conservatives and all those opposed to government-imposed racial preferences of any kind the opportunity to work on a state level to ban them. Such bans would have to be upheld by the recent decision allowing but not mandating affirmative action.
These two Supreme Court decisions have the capacity to catalyze the revitalization of American culture. Conservative guru Paul Weyrich talks often of America’s “culture war,” with the Liberal Legions waging perpetual war against traditional cultural values in America. These decisions can energize the defenders of those values. For if they won’t do it, perhaps nothing will.
The place to start here is with a Constitutional Marriage Amendment.
Liaisons and relationships between consenting adults are a private and personal matter and their own business, not the government’s. Marriage, however, is a legal structure and by definition is the government’s business.
The family structure of one man, one woman, married with children has been the foundational social structure of American, indeed Western culture, and as such has been under unrelenting assault by Marxists and other members of the Left who see it as the basic impediment to state control over individuals.
The place to begin the reversal of the Sodomization of America is to complete the passage of the Constitutional Marriage Amendment, amending the Constitution to define legal marriage in America as only between one man and one woman. Note I said “to complete.” That is because a number of state legislatures have already passed the amendment, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced his support for bringing it to a vote in Congress.
So there’s the pony. Let’s pull it out of the manure pile, wash it off, and start to ride it.