Poor Michele Bachmann. Put upon again and again by the twin evils of gays and liberals. Thanks be to God she has Katherine Kersten to stick up for her.
Now let’s put aside the easy target of Kersten herself (and the Star Tribune, who gives such a right wing lapdog a column,) and talk about tolerance. Indeed, let’s look at what Kersten says Bachmann is being besieged about: her introduction of two bills to prohibit gay marriage and to “protect students from ideological bias at public universities.”
We may as well get the most damning thing Bachmann said (quoted by Kersten,) out there, too: “Judges have decided that legislators are good enough to decide issues like the load limits on turnip trucks. But they seem to believe that elected representatives can’t be trusted to determine the people’s will on big issues, such as marriage, abortion and the like.”
Gee, where would judges get that impression?
Maybe from legislators who want to impose their religion-based morality on the minority? You know, the founders suspected that might just happen when the legislature is elected by a religion-dominated majority. That’s why they tacked the Bill of Rights onto the Constitution, and stuck that damn First Amendment in there that gives religion-addled legislators so much trouble when they want to tell the rest of us whom we can marry or what we can say if we happen to be university professors.
Maybe Bachmann and Kersten ought to stick to the turnip truck legislation. That seems to be what they fell off of when it comes to understanding that the supreme law of the land does not support the “will of the people” when those willful people are bent on intolerance of gay or liberal minorities.
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