Judges
hasten cultural decline
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | May 17, 2008 | Editorial
Posted on Saturday,
May 17, 2008 10:12:16 AM
People gaze
in disbelief at the cultural landscape — all the divorce, cohabitation,
promiscuity, sexually transmitted disease, single moms, ill-mannered children,
failing public schools, substance abuse, domestic violence, abortions,
pornography and incivility — and can't fathom how America fell this far this
fast.
No one event triggered this devolution, but it
undeniably was pushed along many times by the moral relativism of the last 50
years, when most of society's widely accepted norms were undermined by the quicksand of
nonjudgmentalism; when the concepts of right and
wrong, good and bad, were abolished in favor of differences that were to be
respected if not celebrated, and codified when necessary to surmount widespread
public opposition.
Paradoxically, people and institutions whose
beliefs do not permit them to tolerate the most abhorrent differences were
judged to be evil. Through rigid enforcement of increasingly fascist speech and
thought codes, relativists turned
At every step of this long downward cultural march
were men and women in black robes, activist judges eager to take out another of
society's underpinnings under the guise of some spurious, high-sounding goal.
And at every step, relativists declared that the latest judicial fiat freeing
another genie of man's worst impulses would, inexplicably, make society
stronger, fairer, safer, better.
Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling
legalizing same-sex marriage followed the script, but was at best redundant —
its Massachusetts counterpart broke this ground four years ago with the
identical one-vote margin — and was more symbolic than significant. Homosexuals
already enjoy all of the rights and benefits of traditional marriage under
No, the ruling merely answered homosexuals' purely
emotional plea for cultural acceptance by giving civil unions their proper
label — "marriage" — the will of Californians, as democratically
expressed twice, and the dark societal consequences be damned. Far from being a
seminal ruling, the decision merely inched the homosexual agenda ahead and
drove yet another nail in the culture's coffin.