What Happens When an Invincible Force Meets an Immovable Object?

So the Prez has come down on the "Do Nothing" side of the marriage question. They're saying the courts forced him into this. It's an interesting situation. The courts feel obligated to right a percieved wrong countenanced by the tyranny of the majority, the political branches feel obligated to stop the courts from forcing societal change unsupported by the people. Who's right?


Like I said, this is only half the marriage issue as far as I'm concerned. But it may be to the good to move this debate out of the courts and into the legislatures. We might start to have a truly substantial debate on the subject, not about what the other side is going to do if X, Y, and Z happen. We can finally decide what we, as a people, want the law to be.


Of course, it's still using the federal hammer to swat what's determinedly not a federal issue. This is the problem with Big Government Conservatism. Instead of letting each state decide for itself, we're going to have the states collectively decide for the entire nation. A function of our wired-in, constantly-demanding-solution society.