Trenton – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling erasing part of a federal anti-gay marriage law was a “bad decision” and an example of “judicial supremacy.”
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In January, the Republican governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate vetoed a New Jersey same-sex marriage bill. On a radio program Wednesday, he said he’d do the same to any new legislation.
If an “institution that’s over 2,000 years old” is to be changed, he says a referendum should be held.
The Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples.
Christie calls it an “example of judicial supremacy rather than having a government run by the people we actually vote for.”
He also says, “I thought it was a bad decision.”
When wing-nuts don’t like SCOTUS decisions they call it “judicial-supremacy.” Human rights and anti-discrimination of minority groups are not for a mob-vote in any civilized society. Christie minded politicians celebrated when few days before the Supreme Court devoured the Voting Rights Act that Congress passed in 1965 to protect minority groups from discrimination. I didn’t hear him complain of “Judicial Supremacy” then. The only reason your “institution of marriage” was the same for 2,000 years is because religious zealots had control over civilizations, and intolerance was part of those societies. Anyone who didn’t conform was buried alive or beheaded in the name of God. I don’t understand the threat of gay marriage…are all straight men going to abandon their wives and children and marry men now? Live and Let Live….
Oh Christie, you showed such promise, and now this.. Sigh…
Wow! Impressive! A man of principle. A rarity for a politician in this day and age.
Christie doesn’t sell himself. He stands up for what he believes in regardless of the liberal rhetoric.
A rarity these days.
Thank you governor Christie. I hope that you are president come January 2017.
Christie is like the bathroom shower. You can shut him off, you can turn him on, but really most of the time he drips.