Court plays God over homosexual sinful marriage
Pro and anti-Proposition 8 protesters rally in front of the San Francisco City Hall as the California Supreme Court holds a session in the to determine the definition of marriage (Strauss v. Horton cases). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This year, the Supreme Court will render judgment on the institution of marriage . Though most of us don’t realize it, the Court first did so forty-one years ago in Eisenstadt v. Baird , a decision that gravely wounded marriage and set the nation on a course of gradual debilitation by ruling that states could not restrict the sale of contraceptives to unmarried people. In its forthcoming decision, the Court may give marriage the legal coup de grace . Or it may surprise us, redeem itself, and use the occasion to correct the drift of legal thought on sexuality, marriage, and the rights of children . All three are inextricably linked. In Eisenstadt, the Court overturned Massachusetts state law and pu...