America’s propaganda media have never been shy about showcasing their adulation for the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which opened the floodgates to so-called “gay marriage” throughout the country. So, it wasn’t exactly shocking when ABC’s “news” division fawned over the ruling during a recent interview with its author, former Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Earlier this week, ABC News’ Devin Dwyer spoke with Kennedy about his life and legacy, as portrayed in the latter’s recently released memoir. This naturally included discussions about current issues before the court and the Reagan appointee’s role in its past pivotal decisions.
When it came to discussing Obergefell, Dwyer — who is gay — could barely contain his excitement.
“On no set of issues was Kennedy’s impact more sweeping than gay rights. His opinion struck down laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy, and in 2015, extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide,” Dwyer said in his narration of the segment.
The ABC News “reporter” then asked Kennedy, “How does a one-time altar boy from Sacramento, a devout Catholic, end up so passionately defending the dignity of gay and lesbian people?”
Kennedy echoed sentiments expressed in his memoir and said that “it was a process over time” in which he “began to learn about the hurt and the anguish and the desire these people had to live a wonderful life and to contribute to our country.” The response prompted Dwyer to seemingly inject his own concerns about SCOTUS overturning Obergefell into the mix. He asked the former justice whether he thinks his “body of gay rights cases will endure.”
“Well, that’s for the next generation to decide. Stare decisis, the rule that a precedent should be given great weight, in part, depends on reliance,” Kennedy said.
“Sounds like you’re pretty confident it’ll hold,” Dwyer said, to which Kennedy replied, “Well, we’ll see.”
Dwyer went on to fawn over Kennedy’s Obergefell decision throughout his narration of the interview segment. The ABC News correspondent gushed over how “parts of Kennedy’s opinion have become part of popular culture” and are “words now read aloud at wedding ceremonies of all kinds.”
While Kennedy may be predisposed to defend Obergefell as a “good lesson to teach that the law protects all,” to have legacy media trip over themselves to endlessly glorify it isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. If anything, it’s a good indication that the decision was wrong.
And in Obergefell‘s case, it was absolutely wrong.
Missing from Kennedy’s defense of Obergefell and his majority opinion is any coherent legal justification for the decision. There has never been — and still isn’t — a constitutional “right” to “gay marriage” in the 14th Amendment or anywhere else in the Constitution.
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Former Justice Antonin Scalia perhaps said it best in his blistering Obergefell dissent that the majority’s decision “is the furthest extension in fact — and the furthest extension one can even imagine — of the Court’s claimed power to create ‘liberties’ that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention.”
“This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves,” Scalia wrote.
Justice Clarence Thomas raised similar objections in his dissenting opinion, in which he noted how “liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits.” The Bush 41 appointee underscored how the Obergefell majority “invokes our Constitution in the name of a ‘liberty’ that the Framers would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect” and “rejects the idea — captured in our Declaration of Independence — that human dignity is innate and suggests instead that it comes from the Government.”
The societal consequences stemming from Kennedy and Co.’s Obergefell ruling have been catastrophic, to say the least. The decision not only helped further erode the nuclear family and deprive children of growing up in a household with their mother and father, but it is also responsible for shepherding forward the “transgender” movement in America.
Once leftists got the Supreme Court to redefine “marriage,” they quickly moved on to redefining “sex” and demanded everyone follow suit. They continued to up the ante, even going as far as to target parents’ children by “transing” them with harmful surgeries and chemicals and brainwashing them with LGBT propaganda in schools — sometimes, without the parents even knowing.
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Kennedy may believe he was being “compassionate” when he sided with the majority in Obergefell. But the reality is that his decision will go down as one of the most destructive and horrific rulings in the Supreme Court’s history. And there is no amount of glowing media coverage that’s going to change that.
