Dear friend,
I’m writing to inform you that you no longer have a Constitution. It’s time to figure out who the tyrants of the new socialist Pan-American Union will be, and get into bed with them quickly, before they put you in the gulag for resisting their will.
“Shut up, Yitzkhak!” you say. “We still have a Constitution!” Oh, I agree. There is such a piece of paper with that name on it. You can view it in a museum. But, as Joseph Sobran once noted, “the U.S. Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.”
I’m not concerned with opinions on whether gay marriage is right or wrong. Most liberals will agree with this ruling in California; most conservatives will be disturbed by it. While Torah condemns homosexuality as an abomination, the number of Jews in America who put any value in Torah Law is smaller than it was in Germany before the Holocaust. There’s a certain inevitability about the moral decay of this nation; it’s a juggernaut that has never been stopped in any other great nation poised for destruction. (Perhaps HaShem will use barbarous Middle-Eastern fanatics to judge America, as He used them to judge His people Israel on more than one occasion. But that’s Bible stuff, and who pays attention to the Bible anymore?)
Look, get this straight: I don’t hate gays. I grew up with some kids who were gay, and it never affected my friendship with them. I’ve committed my own sins in this world, some of them worse than sodomy. How can I judge my fellow man? Soon the Bible will be condemned as “hate speech” and all those who preach from it will be arrested for hate crimes. You don’t think so? The process is already off to a running start in Canada, that retarded beaver at our doorstep. (Oh, did I say retarded? I mean “mentally challenged”.) But this letter is not about hate, and it’s not about intolerance. It’s about the future of our republic. (And I’d better get it out to you before the Supreme Court labels it “hate speech” and locks me up for writing it.)
The people I worry about are not necessarily gays. They are those who do not see a problem with the will of the people being overturned by the courts. Those black-robed oligarchs sitting on their big benches care nothing for the will of the people. The majority of Californians expressed their opinion on this issue very clearly. Just like they did in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. The oligarchs said , “We don’t care about the opinion of the masses. We will make the law, and we will tell you what you will accept and what you will live with. We know better than you do.” And they set the will of the people aside. They decided that their job is not to uphold the Constitution of the United States, but to engage in social engineering for the benefit of us poor, benighted creatures. We are nothing now but the objects of a huge social experiment. Laboratory rats.
Are you aware, my friend, that this country has a Constitution? Are you aware that this Constitution denies such power to the judicial branch? Laws are not supposed to be made by judges on benches! The rights of the people, to gay marriage or any other thing, are determined by Congress, by representatives voted in by the people, who reflect the will of the people. Our Constitution limits the power of any branch of the government to impose its will on us. There are checks in place. Or there were. But we have forgotten. They stopped teaching us these things in school, and now we have no idea. Our Constitution has been turned upside down. It says the very opposite of what it was intended to say. It makes the people dupes of an all-powerful government, and we don’t even realize this. Without our Constitution, we will live in tyranny. Our Constitution is what has made America great, and free. But America is not great anymore. Nor is it free. Because America’s Constitution is just, as George W. Bush once called it, “a G– D—- piece of paper.”
Has it occurred to you that, both in Massachusetts and in California, the will of the people concerning gay marriage was crassly, and illegally, set aside by the supreme courts of those two states, because the courts simply decided that the people didn’t know what was good for them? And that judges exist to tell us what’s good for us, whether we like it or not? Are you comfortable with this concept? Is this how our republic is supposed to work?
That’s what really worries me. Most Americans confuse “freedom” with “license”. Worst of all, they have no idea how this country is supposed to work and how their liberty is being stolen from them. The Supreme Court has succeeded in turning the Constitution completely upside down. It works opposite to the way it was constructed to work. (I’m not talking about interpreting the Constitution; I’m talking about abrogating it.) The Constitution we live under today is not the one we inherited from the Founding Fathers. Remember the “Bizarro Superman” comics? The Bizarro World where everything was the opposite of the way it is on Earth? We’ll, we now have a “Bizarro Constiutution.”
Every state of the union, including my beautiful state of North Carolina, will certainly be forced to accept as valid the “marriage contracts” made on the wacky coastlines of America. That, the courts will tell us, is constitutional. And we will accept it, because we know nothing about the Constitution. It’s just “a G– D—- piece of paper,” right?
Thank you Massachusetts, for starting this particular stinkball rolling my way. It looks like it’s growing fairly well. Pardon me if I regret every minute I spent on the soil of that errant commonwealth. As often as I bathe, I can’t seem to wash off the filth that still clings to me from having lived there. I am so ashamed to tell people I grew up in Massachusetts, I’m now claiming to be an extraterrestrial from the planet Zarex. (The habits I picked up in Massachusetts seem to support this contention, so nobody as yet suspects.)
Now, some people, even extremely intelligent people, will respond to this email with indignant arguments about gays and their rights. Fine. But they will not address the question I’ve raised about the death of the Constitution, the danger to a form of government that has been such a blessing to us and to our ancestors. (I’ve been through this before, so I know what to expect.)
Okay, so then why am I writing this letter? Not to change your mind; that is probably not possible at this point in our history. But because I have a responsibility to sound the warning, to speak the truth no matter who despises me for it: The Constitution is dead. It no longer poses a threat to our form of government.
I also have a message for the people of Massachusetts and California: According to the Constitution (the real one, not the Bizarro one) activist judges can be impeached. We can stop this! We can still save our country! But it will take an enormous burst of political will from a spoiled generation that is, apparently, unable to rise to the occasion. The citizens of Massachusetts and California may grumble about having their votes ignored by their supreme court, their ballots tossed in the trash like so much garbage. But they’ll do nothing about it.
No more tea-parties in Boston.
No more Constitution in America.
No more fifes and drums.
Just silence.
Thought you’d like to know.
Yitzkhak benMelek
husband of Henaynei