ACLU And Arrogant Activist Judge At It Again

Pro-family groups across the nation accused a federal judge in Nebraska of judicial activism after he became the first in the U.S. to strike down a state amendment barring same-sex marriage or civil unions, nullifying a Nebraska measure passed by 70 percent of voters in 2000. "This is a blatant display of judicial arrogance where a non-elected federal judge has shown a total disregard for what 70 percent of Nebraska voters stated, marriage is between one man and one woman," said Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled the amendment significantly burdened both the "expressive and intimate associational rights" of homosexuals and "creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs right to petition or to participate in the political process."

The challenge was filed by the homosexual-rights organization Lambda Legal and the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Project.

You might have guessed the ACLU would be involved and playing to this liberal activist unelected judge. Bataillon was the guy who declared electrocution unconstitutional in Nebraska because it caused "an unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain". The article ends with the following important message.

Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture & Family Institute, said, "Until we get judges who understand that their job in a government of balanced power is to apply the law, not trash it, we will see more judicial tyranny,"

Knight said the people of Nebraska were "slapped right across the face by this arrogant federal judge."

"You can see why Senate liberals are also trashing democracy by denying an up-or-down vote on judicial nominees; they like their little monopoly, and don't want the people to have any say, unless it fits their radical liberal agenda, of course," Knight said.

Read the whole article at WorldNet Daily.