Soundoff to Maryland Delgate Dwyer

Last month, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdoch sided with nine gay couples and ruled Maryland’s law defining marriage as between a man and a woman unconstitutional and discriminatory, stating that the law “cannot withstand constitutional challenge.”

Maryland state delegate Don Dwyer (R-Anne Arundel County) immediately vowed to remove the judge from the bench. He made good on his promise the other day. (-story)

It should be noted that Dwyer’s quest to herd the homosexuals back into the closet didn’t start with the judge’s ruling. He also authored legislation to be put on the November ballot that would have banned gay marriages and civil unions. The measure was defeated.

He has found a friend with the gay-hate group, Family Focus. Family Focus wasted no time reporting how Dwyer proposed to “rein in” the activist judges and encouraged their members to contact Dwyer and show their support for his efforts. (“Activist judges”, by the way, is the buzz phrase that defines any judge who, after evaluating the law, rules contrary to how one believes they should have ruled. It’s a favorite phrase among the far right conservatives and conservative Christians.)

Whether or not one favors same sex marriage, alarm bells should be sounding off over Dwyer’s answer to “activist judges.” The legislature’s job is to make laws. The court’s job is to interpret those laws based on current law and prior precedence. If the law is “no good”, it’s the legislature’s job to rewrite the law to address the court’s legal concerns. It is not the legislature’s job to throw out judges who don’t agree with their laws. Otherwise, there would be no point in maintaining a court system.

Please take the time to tell Delegate Don Dwyer how you feel about his latest effort against homosexuals.

·Email: Don_Dwyer@house.state.md.us
·Postal mail: P. O. Box 667
Glen Burnie, MD 21060 – 0667
·Phone: (410) 768-0945

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