The failure of numerous states’ attorneys general to declare null the federal court rulings overturning their voter-approved marriage amendments is another peal in the death knell of democracy. When a perfectly just law is overturned by the courts, to that extent democracy is finished and justice subverted. Colorado’s marriage amendment is sane, sound and just. By nature, the state derives no greater benefit from two men living together, engaging in sex acts, and calling it marriage than two men living together without sex and calling it friendship. By nature, however, a man and a woman united in marriage bring forth the next generation, a vital interest to the state.
The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Colorado should stand firm on its marriage amendment.
Tom Uebbing, Littleton
This letter was published in the Oct. 27 edition.
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