The New York State has become the most recent US state to defeat a proposal to legalise homosexual 'marriage’. The New York Senate’s vote delivered a wide margin in a relatively liberal state where the other chamber of the legislature has three times approved the measure and the governor, David A. Paterson, had been poised to sign it into law.
The legalisation of homosexual unions has now been refused in all 32 US states where the issue has been resolved democratically.
The vote prompted pronouncements that the momentum for homosexual 'marriage' had not only been halted, but effectively reversed, the Washington Post reported.
Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, said:
‘The ‘gay’ marriage movement usually looks very smart. Now it looks flat-footed.
‘I think you put it all together and it most likely spells the end of the idea that you can pass ‘gay’ marriage democratically anywhere else in the United States. I think the ‘gay’ marriage lobby will have to go back to a court-based approach.’
Ms Gallagher’s statement points to the fact that in the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, where homosexual ‘marriages’ are currently available, this situation was not the result of a people's vote leading to a democratic legislative process, but of highly controversial judicial decisions adopted by the Supreme Courts of these states.
Dr Jakob Cornides, an international human rights lawyer and academic from Brussels, wrote in his article that Supreme Courts of the states where the homosexual ‘marriage’ is allowed found that ‘the obligation to recognise same-sex marriage was in some way already mandated by existing constitutional law, but failed to explain why the hidden sense of the constitutional provisions used for that purpose had never been discovered in the decades or centuries before.’
‘As it turns out,’ Dr Cornides continued, ‘the same-sex rights agenda is imposed on an unwilling majority through a judicial putsch, in a way that definitely reminds of the US Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade Decision. The support this agenda enjoys in the broader public appears to be, at best, very limited.’
In November this year, the people of the state of Maine used their ballot box to reject a bill, which would allow same-sex ‘marriage’.
In the November 2008 election, 62 percent of the voters in Florida and majorities in Arizona and California installed the traditional one-man-and-one-woman definition of marriage in their constitutions.
(See the CCFON report)
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