Same-sex decision violates Constitution

The SCOTUS has declared that same-sex commitments must be treated the same as marriage covenants. That ruling was both unconstitutional and unjust.

It was unconstitutional because the Constitution, in Article I, Sect. 8, authorizes Congress, not the SCOTUS, to enact laws. Also, the 20 enumerated powers in that article do not include defining marriage. That power is reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment.

The court then borrowed a tyrannical technique from the president and bypassed Congress and the Constitution to rewrite laws. This violated the separation of powers principle, which was designed to protect us from this tyranny.

Furthermore, the court promulgated injustice in their decision. Why? Justice requires that equal things be treated the same. It also demands that things not equal be treated differently.

Note that political authority is established for the public good. So, we must ask whether marriage and same-sex unions have an equal track record of contributing to the common good.

Part of the common good is to perpetuate and develop society by the begetting of children. Same-sex relationships cannot contribute to the common good in this fundamental way; thus, they are not equal. Treating them as equal is fundamentally unjust.

These rulings provide additional evidence that our leadership has abandoned the rule of law for the rule of man. We are being ruled by an oligarchy of judges and a president rather than by constitutional law.

Walter I. Sivertsen

Grayslake