Keep Praying - It Ain't Over Yet

Wouldn't it be nice if elections actually settled issues?

We passed Prop. 22, only to see it overturned by the State Supreme Court.

Then we passed Prop. 8. And where is it now? Back before the State Supreme Court.

The opposition's contention is that something so drastic as defining marriage as being only between a man and a woman goes far beyond a Constitutional amendment, but is a revision - meaning it so fundmentally changes the document that it must originate with a 2/3 vote of the Legislature and then be voted upon.

People keep asking me, "Can they really overturn it? Isn't that why we qualified and passed a Constitutional amendment, so that it is by definition constitutional?" And honestly, I don't know how to answer. At this point, I don't put anything passed them.

One of the Justices wrote, "Whether a state ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional "is not a matter to be decided by the executive or legislative branch, or by popular vote, but is instead an issue of constitutional law for resolution by the judicial branch," Kennard wrote.

This is the opposite of what we who support Prop. 8 have been saying. This issue so fundamentally changes our society that it should be up to us as a people to make this decision through our democratic process. The other side has even said they intend to introduce their own initiative to allow for same-sex marriage. I say, let them try to qualify it. One of my criticisms is that they have never sought an affirmative vote, up or down, on their position, but have tried to force it through the courts instead.

However, I think the legal issue has changed, and in a way that should make the Court pause before overturning Prop. 8. When the Court, in the 1970's, overturned the death penalty, the people responded with an Intitiative Constitutional Amendment to reinstate it. This is a parallel issue.

To my thinking, if the Court to overturns Prop. 8, they would in fact be overturning the entire initiative constitutional amendment process. I just can't think they would want to do that.

This is why we said, Pray - Vote - Pray. We prayed, we voted, now we need to keep praying.

Pray for the Supreme Court Justices - for wisdom and understanding, for discernment even beyond their own feelings, opinions or agendas, and for God's will and righteousness in their lives.