Iowa judges have imposed gay marriage on a state that voted against it.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Faction is the eternal condition of mankind. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed,” wrote James Madison in Federalist No. 10. “As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.”
A society’s capacity to manage faction determines whether it lives or dies. Whether we still have that capacity, or the will to exercise it, is a pressing question. In the culture war, that was made obvious again last week as seven politically insulated social engineers, also known as the Iowa Supreme Court, imposed same-sex marriage on citizens whose elected representatives had enacted a law against it.
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