A little more whiplash from Kmiec

The man must be in need of a chiropractor by now (via The Los Angeles Times):

The Proposition 8 case has attracted more friend-of-the-court briefs than the marriage dispute that led to last year's historic ruling -- the previous record-holder. Most of the outside groups that have weighed in have asked the court to overturn the initiative.

Pepperdine's Kmiec said replacing the word "marriage" with another term would both leave intact the court's May 15 ruling and deter a recall campaign that could damage the court as an institution. He said couples could still marry in their religious communities.

That would "restore a religious meaning to a word that is a religious word," he said. Kmiec, a Catholic, said he reluctantly voted for Proposition 8 "because of the instructions of my faith community" but felt "entirely unsatisfied" with the outcome.

"I am not sure Ron George wants to be remembered as the chief justice who denied the principle of fundamental equality," the law professor said. "It is not a legacy we should ask anyone to live with, and it is wholly unnecessary."

Yes, who really cares about the clear moral teachings of the Catholic Church and the ancient institution of marriage in the face of homosexual activism and faux principles of fundamental equality? It calls to mind these lines by my favorite poet:

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.  Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

• Douglas Kmiec comes out against Proposition 8... (March 3, 2009)

Comments

[Nick Milne]

I'm glad Prof. Kmiec has such exquisite reverence for "the instructions of his faith community." No doubt this reverence shapes all of his actions.

[Ed Peters]

We have witnessed the disintegration of a once-solid thinker.

[Ed Peters]

ps. DK says "I am not sure Ron George wants to be remembered as the chief justice who ...."

What total hubris. If I were DK, I would be very, very worried about how people were going to to remember ME.

[T. Shaw]

As if reversing the votes of the majority would "damage the court as an institution." Honor.Thieves. That's the only way the socialist engineers can accelerate society down the road to damnation.

In the other news regarding Kmiec's prominent catholicism and "reverence for the instructions of his faith community": "Miami abortion clinic owner threw live baby away, prosecutors say."

[Jackson (Augustine)]

I'm developing an absolute loathing for the word "community."

[Ed Peters]

Resist it, Jackson, RESIST!

[Dale Price]

Douglas Quisling, Vichy Catholic extraordinaire, strikes again. He, for one, welcomes his new Leftist Overlords.