Conservative and former diplomat Alan
Lee Keyes has condemned a federal judge's ruling striking down
Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage, arguing that the purpose of the
marriage equality movement is the destruction of America.
U.S. District Judge Terence Kern put
his 68-page ruling, handed down Tuesday, on hold, pending an appeal.
(Related: Federal
judge strikes down Oklahoma's gay marriage ban.)
“The elitists' push to legalize, and
forbid disapproval of, homosexual relations is the most telling
evidence of their hostility toward America's way of life,” Keyes
wrote in a WND.com op-ed.
“The latest case in point is the
ruling of U.S. District Judge Terrence C. Kern regarding same-sex
marriage, overturning the amendment by which Oklahomans restricted
the State's recognition of marriage to heterosexual couples. Though
the decision contained nothing new, both its content and the manner
in which it was argued by both sides illustrate the deadly legal
chicanery by which the elitist faction means to dissolve the moral,
legal and institutional basis for just government, i.e., government
aimed at securing the God-endowed unalienable rights of the people.”
“By contrast the judges and justices
deny and disparage authoritatively antecedent unalienable rights
retained by the people (e.g., the heterosexual couple's exclusive
prerogative of procreation, which gives rise to the institution of
marriage and its attendant rights). They seek to establish an
unconstitutional regime of constraint upon one of the powers of
government constitutionally reserved to the states, respectively, or
the people (i.e., the power to make laws 'respecting an establishment
of religion'). The will to resist such abuses called the American
people into existence as a nation. If today that will has failed,
its failure will be the headstone that marks our nation's demise.”
“Be advised, this tragic conclusion
is the purpose of the whole 'gay marriage' maneuver,” he
added.