Because American culture just wasn't decaying fast enough that it didn't need eighteen oligarchical thumbs on the scale of perverted perdition:
The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have signaled that it's only a matter of time before same-sex couples can marry in all 50 states.
Rejecting appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, the Supreme Court effectively made such marriages legal in 30 states, up from 19 and the District of Columbia, taking in every region of the country....
Directly affected by Monday's orders were Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia. Officials in those states had appealed lower court rulings in an effort to preserve their bans. Couples in six other states — Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming — should be able to get married in short order since those states would be bound by the same appellate rulings that have been on hold.
Just for giggles, let's drag the Constitution into this discussion, shall we? Article III, Section 2 states, in part:
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. [emphases added]
What power is not enumerated to the federal judiciary in that passage? The power to strike down state laws. Or, as Justice John Marshall generally referred to it after Marbury vs. Madison (1803), "judicial review," and as it's come to be specifically known, "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights". The federal courts were never intended by the Framers to be empowered to dictate to the States - aka the Founders and creaters of the Constitution and the ensuing federal government - what their individual laws were to be. Each State was sovereign; it was the federal government that was to be tied down and strictly limited in its powers and jurisdictions. If, say, Vermont wanted to not just legalize sodomarriage but also ban traditional marriage, mandate homosexuality, and outlaw heterosexuality, and Utah decided to do the diametric opposite, that was their respective prerogatives. And if one or the other or both sides of a particular issue, like sodomarriage, wished to have the federal government stick its oar into those waters, the Constitution provides a mechanism for doing so:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress.
A wonderful thing, Article V. It allows disgusting, obnoxious, bigoted extremist movements like the Lavender Lobby to pursue their demented social agendas to their slimy hearts' content, but protects the rights of the mainstream majority by making it very difficult to attain their retrograde objectives. Or, if you prefer a more scholarly rendition, dramatic, ubiquitous change in the United States of America is supposed to require an overwhelming public consensus in support of it. If there aren't two-thirds majorities in both Houses of Congress, or two-thirds of the States, in favor of enacting said change, and three-quarters of the States don't say "okey-dokey" to the final product, that cake don't get baked. And the federal judiciary sure as shinola doesn't get to shove it down the throats of the States and the people with the crack of a gavel.
Or at least, they didn't used to. But now, despite the fact that there isn't an overwhelming public consensus in support of sodomarriage, it's being illegally, unconstitutionally, and tyrannically forced on us anyway.
Kinda reminds me of something Thomas Jefferson once said:
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Particularly, in this instance, when the core point of the sodomarriage drive isn't "equal rights," but the incineration of traditional marriage and the biblical ordination from which it derives....
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
....and its replacement by pure evil:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. [emphases added]
The irony of all this is that this cultural decay would probably reach the Rubicon of sea-to-Crisco-sea ubiquity entirely on its own. But the hateful, despotic insecurities of the Lavender Lobby and its robed enablers and enforcers cannot and will not take the slightest chance that the "fundies" and "Christianists" and "Bible-thumpers" and - what is it their bosom buddies the jihadists call us? Ah, yes, "Nazarines" - might somehow turn back that moldy tide, or even survive. Homosexualität uber alles is to be the coin of the moistened realm whether we like it or not - and preferably the latter.
Thus we are left to our lamentations:
Leaders of the National Organization for Marriage predicted a backlash in the form of renewed efforts to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
"The notion that the people have nothing to say about this — that unelected judges are going to decide it for us — that's preposterous," said John Eastman, the organization's chairman.
Indeed. And ultimately, as the adage goes, God will not be mocked.
But in the mean time, mockery is the best fate from which we can hope and pray for deliverance.
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