Sarah Posner on the religious right:
n the wake of the California Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling, religious right organizations from coast to coast are whipping out their "activist judges" talking points and launching campaigns to make gay marriage unconstitutional at the state and federal level. Even before the decision came down, the straight-talking John McCain was, as Jeffrey Toobin put it, blowing "a dog whistle for the right" -- employing carefully coded language in a speech about the evils of judges making decisions the right disagrees with. The dogs started barking immediately. "The California Supreme Court has engaged in the worst kind of judicial activism today, abandoning its role as an objective interpreter of the law and, instead, legislating from the bench," complained the Concerned Women for America. "By bowing down to homosexual activists and the rebel city of San Francisco, the California Supreme Court has exchanged the rule of law for the rule of unbridled power to destroy all that is good and sacred," grumbled the Campaign for Children and Families, a California group that has helped collect the more than one million signatures needed to put a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage before voters in November. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice immediately spotted a fundraising opportunity.
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