Dr. Dobson on California Ruling
Dr. Dobson’s response to a California Supreme Court decision.
May 15, 2008
Colorado Springs, Colo. – Focus on the family founder and Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., issued the following statement today in response to a California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in that state:
“In 1863, Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address that ours is a government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Well, not in the state of California, where four imperious and unelected justices have just overridden the will of the voters. In 2000, Proposition 22 defined marriage as being exclusively between one man and one woman; the initiative passed by an overwhelming margin of 61 to 39 percent. That emphatic expression of the will of the people has now arrogantly been declared null and void.
“In so doing, the justices have undermined and endangered the basic building block of society, which has been honored and preserved in every nation on earth through most of human history. What an outrage. It will be up to the people of California to preserve traditional marriage by passing a constitutional amendment in the November elections. Only then can they protect themselves from this latest example of judicial tyranny.”
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