Conservative and former diplomat Alan
Lee Keyes believes that a Supreme Court ruling striking down
restrictive state marriage bans will lead to the “dissolution of
the United States.”
Keyes, whose daughter is gay, issued
his warning in a lengthy WND.com op-ed.
The high court has agreed to review
cases challenging bans in four states. Oral arguments will be heard
in April and a ruling is expected by June.
According
to Keyes, a decision favoring marriage equality “could very
well be as momentous as the Dred Scott decision in the 19th
century, and just as fraught with potential fatal implications for
the future Liberty and Union of the United States.”
Such a ruling would lead to civil war,
Keyes concludes.
“This would be an attack on the
people of the United States more grievous than that which led the
first generation of Americans to declare their independence from
Great Britain,” he wrote. “If even a significant minority of
Americans continue in their attachment to the unalienable right of
liberty (as opposed to the licentious freedom that has, in some
quarters usurped that name) this attack is likely to produce the
separation and dissolution of the United States, for like humanity
itself the United States is inconceivable apart from respect for
God-endowed unalienable right.”