I encountered this excellent piece in the Cambridge Chronicle yesterday. The author, David Ertischek, shares my strong belief that something as important as the right to marriage equality is much too important to let the citizens decide.
Much has been made about how the state Legislature has refused to forward an amendment from the consitutional convention so residents can vote in 2008 on whether marriage would be defined only as a union of one man and one woman.
There should be no vote on same-sex marriage. . . and here is why. Read the story.
Many Americans have the mistaken notion that the majority should have their way on everything. In a stroke of genius, the Founding Fathers saw the danger of that view and created a system of checks and balances in our Constitution. We the People can vote on a President of the United States, but neither the President nor the People interprets the law. If the People got their way, the schools in the South would still be segregated. The courts ruled that something as important as equal rights is not a decision up for popular vote. That principle has never changed and, God willing, never will.
