Ethics

D'Souza's Ignorant Blather on California Gay Marriage Ruling

By Ed Brayton

I'm sure it won't surprise anyone to hear that Dinesh D'Souza is making disingenuous arguments about the California Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage last week. First he blathers about enumerated rights and, conveniently, ignores unenumerated rights:

How, then, can a court invalidate the referendum and over-rule the will of the people? Basically through a kind of legal fraud. The court has to pretend that there is a right to gay marriage even though it is nowhere evident in the state constitution. Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it--you won't see a right to gay marriage in there. It is simply not an enumerated right, nor is it a right that can be clearly derived from other enumerated rights.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).