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Texas Review of Law & Politics
passing many state constitutional provisions prohibiting same-sex
marriages. Sadly, however, the people, and their democratic
initiatives, have been pushed aside by a federal judiciary that has
overstepped its historical role, donned itself the final arbiter of the
nation's morals, and discovered a right to same-sex marriage in the
Constitution.
As the ultimate sovereign of our country, the people should and
do "have the right to control their own destiny"379 in matters of such
importance as marriage and family. This right should not have
been usurped by a federal judiciary pressured by a powerful
political minority to move quickly and universally. The people
should not have been bypassed in so fundamental a debate. In the
end, the people may have voted for a right to same-sex marriage.
Indeed, this had already happened in some states. But, we should
have let it happen by the voice of the people in other states. The
federal judiciary should have, with caution and humility, confined
itself to its historical role. America's democratic voice should have
been heard.379. United States v. Windsor, 133 S. Ct. 2675, 2716 (2013) (Alito, J., dissenting).
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