OPINION:
Most of the coverage of Sen. Ted Cruz’s comment on overturning the Supreme Court’s 2015 gay marriage ruling has missed a critical issue (“Ted Cruz says Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage ’clearly wrong,’” Web, July 17). State activists are moving to change the laws to permit gay marriage, and in most states they are likely to succeed. However, there are two major problems for the Democrats in this effort.
First is their very loud LBGTQ faction, which is going to demand that any marriage — not just marriage between two adult humans — be allowed. You think this is a joke? Many activists want group marriages or marriages between adults and children as young as 8. There are even those who want to permit marriages to animals. The activists are on a rampage already, so adding this is just stoking their fires. Mr. Cruz knows it and
sees a liability in the issue for the Democrats, especially when it comes to the Hispanic community.
The second issue, though, is the one that will be the real road block. The entire case used by the court for gay marriage came from the
California constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. The federal district court judge declared it void, which was a huge interference in states’ rights. A Supreme Court reversal of the ruling is likely to have little impact on the rest of the country because there will probably be new laws passed. But not so in California, with this amendment; in fact, a Supreme Court reversal would reaffirm the validity of California’s marriage amendment.
The Democrats fear that fight and the Republicans have no stomach for it, either — but we can probably expect the issue to return to the Supreme Court, especially after November.
JAMES BARENDS
Wayne, Pennsylvania
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