Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It's hard to be consistent

Reading about a judge who struck down the legislated ban on same-sex marriage in Oklahoma on grounds that it violates the US Constitution...whose penumbras and emanations apparently cover that ten-minutes old fundamental universal human right.

Made me think of the liberal Protestant scripture scholars who demanded that we read texts in (their reconstruction of) their original meaning, uncontaminated by our self-interested "denominational" concerns. And were then replaced by the hordes of gender-race-class interpreters.

I wonder how many of them would apply the same originalist reading to the Constitution?

Heh.

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