Ethics

Prager's Nonsense on the California Ruling

By Ed Brayton

Dennis Prager has a column at the Worldnutdaily filled with predictable and ill-conceived outrage at the California gay marriage ruling. He begins by saying: this is big. Really big:

Nothing imaginable - leftward or rightward - would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history: Not another Prohibition, not government taking over all health care, not changing all public education to private schools, not America leaving the United Nations, not rescinding the income tax and replacing it with a consumption tax. Nothing.

Unless California voters amend the California Constitution or Congress amends the U.S. Constitution, four justices of the California Supreme Court will have changed American society more than any four individuals since Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).