More lunchtime reading in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch op-eds: “Who’s really driving the wedge?” by Charles Krauthammer, says precisely what I’ve been thinking: that we are about to repeat the mistake of Roe v. Wade.
No, I don’t think that mistake was legalizing abortion (nor am I strongly opposed to gay marriage). I think the mistake was bypassing the democratic process in doing so, and making the Constitution so elastic it is expandable to create rights that clearly would not have been included — if they had even been thought of — when the constitutional language was written. And that’s basically one of the points Charles makes well.
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on February 27, 2004
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