A group of conservative congressmen and women submitted on Tuesday a resolution stating that the federal judge’s decision to strike down California’s Proposition 8 is wrong.
“We really need to ask ourselves the question: are we now in the position of giving a judge the decision to decide whether or not the American people are rational when they go to the voting booth and make their wishes known,” Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) posed to reporters Tuesday.
“It certainly seems the answer would be in the negative.”
The House resolution was sponsored by Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and backed by Steve King (R-Iowa) and John Fleming (R-La.).
Its submission comes days after Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California declared the state’s voter-approved marriage definition unconstitutional.
The resolution calls for an appeal and outlines how over half the states in the country have codified in their state constitutions the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman and that every state whose voters have considered the issue now prohibits same-sex marriage.
It also accuses Judge Walker of failing to conduct himself in an impartial manner and allowing a handful of activists to void a constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage, thus eliminating “the core of the American democratic system.”
The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, lauded the resolution.
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