And there in lies the entire problem. With regard to the groups mentioned above, it is not the proper role of the federal government to advance the cause of any of these groups.
The problem is captured in what Constitutional Law Professor Lino Graglia wrote about same-sex “marriage” and the courts:
…The salient fact of our society at the present day, as many others have noted, is that we are engaged in a culture war. It is a war between our cultural elite, the intelligencia and aspiring intelligencia, the dominant force in our universities and media of communication, on the one hand, and the ordinary American citizen on the other. The average citizen holds views on a wide range of issues of basic social policy … that are anathema to our cultural elite.
The difficulty with our system of representative self-government, as they [the elite] see it, is that everyone gets to vote, with the result that the views of the unenlightened masses are likely to prevail. The function of constitutional law, in the view of our cultural elite and as it has largely operated in recent decades, is to keep this from happening. The first and most important thing to understand about constitutional law is that it has very little to do with a constitution. It has become essentially a device or ruse for policymaking by judges. Such policymaking is much preferred by our cultural elite to policymaking by the elected representatives of the people because judges, given a free hand in policymaking, can generally be relied on to serve as the mirror, mouthpiece, and enacting arm of liberal academia in general and liberal legal academia in particular. … Decisions extending marital rights to homosexual unions do so on no other basis or authority than the fact that full societal acceptance, if not endorsement, of homosexuality is the current cause célèbre in today’s academia. The primary function of judicial opinions explaining these decisions is to deny or conceal this fact. …
“Single-Sex ‘Marriage’: The Role of the Courts”
by Lino A. Graglia, Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas.
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And this applies to other ideas as well. Ideas originate in the academy and migrate out to the society at large because no one wants to appear unenlightened by challenging them.
And what is the academy? An institution of effete snobs that has become a place where ideology isn’t rejected when it departs from truth but one where truth is rejected when it departs from ideology. It is their fascination and obsession with death and communism that are the prime movers of their dementia.
Those voting for bo are at least guilty of remote participation in the furtherence of abortion. Now that should make a priest cringe. Apparenly for most, it doesn’t. Tragically not only has the laity been led astray by the consistent social justice ethic (re:Bernadin) of our NEW PROGRESSIVE American Catholic Church, but most of our clergy has followed the same path. The blind leading the blind.