Will the Supreme Court disenfranchise the entire United States?

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December 11, 2012

Will the Supreme Court disenfranchise the entire United States?

    By Bryan Fischer

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If the Supreme Court overturns DOMA, it will be the end of representative government in the United States. It will be the end of the facade that the American people can establish public policy through their elected representatives.

DOMA passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming majorities (85–14 in the Senate and 342–67 in the House) and was signed into law by a Democrat president. You can't get any more bipartisan than that.

For the Supreme Court to dump DOMA in a landfill would mean, from a practical standpoint, that we just ought to close down Congress and turn everything over to our black-robed overlords.

If the Supreme Court overturns Prop 8, it will be the end of democracy in the United States. The one pure vestige of democracy (as opposed to republicanism) in America is the authority reserved to the people to directly amend their federal and state constitutions. Seven million Californians voted to elevate protection for natural marriage to its state constitution in 2008. That is pure Athenian democracy in action, and respect for the voice of the people has always, until now, been considered a sacred thing.

For the Supreme Court to dump Prop 8 in the landfill would mean, from a practical standpoint, that we ought to officially disenfranchise every American voter — since they will have in effect lost the right to have their votes count for anything anyway — and turn everything — even state policy — over to a nine-member Politburo which never, ever has to answer to the people over whom they exercise such dictatorial power.

One king, one rule