"AND THAT'S FINAL!"

Scene: November 2008. A majority of Californians vote to define a word. A word which was created and originally defined by God.

MARRIAGE.

They defined it like this: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." They didn't vote against anything. They didn't vote against equal rights. They voted to define a word, pure and simple.

Enter: California Supreme Court, May 2009. Somehow they got the idea that they could overrule something that a MAJORITY of Californians voted for. Seven people had the audacity.

Did we slip through some Star Trek-like wormhole and enter an alternate reality where make-believe has become truth over the past couple months? Since when did a state supreme court gain any authority over a majority voice in our nation? Since when did our legislators and judges stop answering to ME! WE THE PEOPLE are the ultimate authority in these United Stated of America and WHAT WE SAY IS LAW!!!

PERIOD.

I don't care if the majority of Americans decide to make grand larceny a misdemeanor and define the color black as the color red. If the people vote, THAT is law and no individual or entity has the power to overrule it. Our government answers to US, not the other way around. Even if the people vote for something that may be against what you believe to be morally sound, when the people speak, it should stand firm.

There is a scripture in the Book of Mormon which states the following:

Mosiah 29:26-27 "Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.

So we do our business by the voice of the people. But then we are issued a warning in the next verse.

"And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land."

The majority of Californians made a morally sound choice. Good job.

The California Supreme Court can stick it in their collective ears. As if.