Constitution needs to stay as it was written

David Dziok / Columnist

In America, we are fighting a battle between two groups, one trying to maintain the values and principles on which our Constitution was formed and the other trying to kidnap the Constitution as a means to enhance a lifestyle.

Rather than enforcing the laws of our Constitution, as our founding fathers intended for them to do, our judges are using their seats to make laws and legislation.

We have to look no further than Massachusetts, where seven “kings” of the state's Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal.

However, the problem is that they had no right to do this because same-sex marriage is not mentioned anywhere in the state’s constitution. Thus, it is beyond the reach of the courts to make any decisions or judgments concerning same-sex marriage. But by a ruling of 4-3, the Massachusetts Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal completely by its own will, blatantly overstepping the constitution and going beyond its duties and responsibilities in order to legislate its beliefs. This is absurd.

If our nation’s judges continue to use their seats as a means to legislate their own beliefs, then our country is in deep, deep trouble.

This must come to an end. Personally, I disagree with same-sex marriages like every Catholic should because they go against Christian teaching.

Moreover, I believe gay marriage will leave the door wide open for a man to come along who claims to be in love with three women and wants the state to recognize his relationship with his partners because he is in love with them.

So far, no person arguing for same-sex marriage can discredit this claim. Whenever this question is posed, proponents of gay marriage often say they would not condone a relationship between a man and three other women because it goes against their personal beliefs. EXACTLY!

But this is what the same-sex marriage lobby does not understand. It would rather impose its will onto others who disagree with its lifestyle.

Regardless of my own beliefs on the matter, for the issue of gay marriage to be decided by radical judges and law-breaking mayors – as we see in San Francisco and New York – is completely unfounded and unconstitutional.

Although a constitutional amendment may be a solution to the atrocity that is same-sex marriage, I believe it is the easy way out.

Constitutional amendments should be used only to fix the Constitution. However, same-sex marriage is not mentioned anywhere within it. As a result, we must look to the 10th Amendment, which states that all powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved solely for the people of a state.

Thus, I believe that the legitimacy of same-sex marriage must be left for the states to decide. Hence, if Massachusetts wants to permit gay marriage, then permission should come from the expressed will of the people through a statewide vote, not from the will of four state Supreme Court judges.

And if the 65 percent disapproval rating of same-sex marriage throughout the entire country is any indication, I believe that this issue will be settled once and for all and the gay rights community will be put in its place.

However, if we continue to let the pro-same-sex marriage community manipulate the court system through judicial activism, then the rights and liberties granted to us by our founding fathers through the Constitution will continue to dissolve in place of cultural fads and self-gratifying lifestyles.