The California State Supreme Court wants you to know where you can stick that vote.

Democracy was taken out at the knees today by 4 black-robed (and hooded?) justices that fashioned out of thin air the “right” to same-sex marriage.

Back in 2000, Californians were asked to give a simple up or down, yes or no vote on this statement: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. And for a state where 60% of the people can’t agree on what the color of the sky is, 61% said “Yes”.

The legitimate will of the people apparently does not hold water with the California Supreme Court as today, in a 4-3 decision, they told the voters to pound sand effectively overturning Prop. 22 by ruling in favor of gay marriages.

Personally, we’re opposed to gay marriage but not vehemently so. We’ll let others get into the moral and social consequences of what gay marriage means. More importantly, what is simultaneously discouraging and enraging about this is the overreach of the Court that presumes there is some sort of right for members of the same sex to be married when in fact nothing of the sort exists in the California Constitution.

And we loved the headline from SignOnSanDiego, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s online edition, “State ban on gay marriage overturned”. That is propoganda pure and simple. The word “ban” is freighted with the implication that there was a prohibition against gay marriage handed down by decree or by legislative fiat. The headline is intentionally misleading and the editors know it. The voters of California simply defined what they believed marriage to be… and it happened to not include gay marriage.

Our conservative brethren are already gearing up for a fight to pass an amendment to the Constitution codifying man-woman marriage. Wonderful. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s social agenda, overreach and hubris, we’ll be wasting time and political capital on an item that a) doesn’t belong in the Constitution and b) should never have been a Constitutional issue in the first place.

Exit Question: What do you think the reaction would be if Prop. 22 failed at polls and the Supremes went ahead and ruled against gay marriage?