It looks like the wingnuts are back to bullying the courts--the same thing they claim Obama did with the health care bill.
A few days ago, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act's ban on health insurance benefits to gay spouses ran counter to the promise of a discrimination-free workplace. And that has Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality up in arms. LaBarbera claimed that the judge has no right to pass on whether DOMA is constitutional.
"This is judicial activism," LaBarbera contends. "One judge decides he doesn't like a law, which was overwhelmingly passed by Congress and signed into law by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton."
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"This passed with an overwhelming majority. If the liberals want to overturn it, they need to do it in Congress -- not through the courts, and not through some presidential executive order," he says.
Um, Peter? Last time I checked, the courts aren't supposed to consider how overwhelmingly a bill passes, but whether it's constitutional. Then again, this sort of nonsense isn't surprising coming from the religious right. Remember, most of them take their cue from David Barton's revisionist view of constitutional law.