In reading the news this morning, an article jumped out, gay marriage advocates vow to circumvent the law . Part of the reason it jumped out was that this is the precise way that many laws of Texas have been changed over the years. When the through their legislators pass laws reflecting the wishes of Texas, the meddling Yankees and their ilk forced changes on Texas through legal opinions. This was done in Roe v. Wade, the Ruiz prison case, Johnson v. Texas and numerous other court opinions. I addressed many of these in my book on Texas history Texans Always Move Them: A True History of Texas . Michael Peroutka, ( Peroutka Website ) at the recent national conference addressed this issue. In his speech, he pointed out how legal opinions are just that, the opinion of the judge. Being a lawyer, he is aware of how lawyers manipulate and trick us into believing things that are just not that way. This is part of the same ‘bait and switch’ mentality. Only the legislature can make law, NOT judges. The opinions of judges and courts do not have the same binding power as legislative law. In other words, the courts do not make law, the only give their opinions. The sad part is that when policies are proposed that are not the will of the people, radical groups use judicial activism to ‘create law’ that does not exist. This was done in Texas throughout the sixties and seventies. That same strategy is now being advocated by gay rights groups to forward their agenda. It angers me that they are doing it again. An interesting study is the history of marriage licenses in the first place. They did not exist until some members of society wished to join two people in a union that was not natural or with the blessings of the church. The advent of the marriage license allowed them to enjoy legitimacy without the blessings of the church or the culture in which they lived.

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