(Daily Caller) – Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer kept up his criticism Monday of last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, ripping the majority for going “completely outside the Constitution” with their decision.
Krauthammer (pointing to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg) added that it’s a “recapitulation” of the Roe v. Wade case, telling Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that the gay marriage issue was heading in the “reform direction” at the state level via referenda and legislatures.
KRAUTHAMMER: This is a recapitulation of what happened 40 years ago with the abortion decision. You can disagree or agree with the policy itself, but the fact is they went completely outside the constitution, and it’s not so much that they created a right. It’s that by issuing the decree, in this case, to legalize gay-marriage everywhere, as in the abortion case, it took the issue out of the political arena, meaning that the people, either expressed through referenda or through their legislatures can no longer pronounce themselves on the issue.Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who ironically was one of those who ruled for gay marriage, she said before she ascended to the Supreme Court, as a criticism of the abortion decision, that it prevented a stable social settlement of the abortion issue, which, at the time was headed in the reform direction, which is exactly what was happening with the gay marriage. And yet, the Supreme Court steps in where the country is moving on an issue, making a decision state-by-state, democratically the way the Constitution wanted it, and says no more debate, no more decisions, whatever you — whatever laws you have, or state constitutions you have, they are invalid. We decide the law of the land.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/29/krauthammer-scotus-went-completely-outside-the-constitution-with-gay-marriage-ruling-video/
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