Iowa Supreme Court Opens Pandora’s Box

Remember this date, Friday April 3^rd 2009. This is the day that the Iowa Supreme Court committed a grave injustice against the people of Iowa. For on this day the court issued its opinion on gay marriage which far too many people take as a decree from on high. This is what is called legislating from the bench and oversteps the bounds of their limited powers. But that is neither here nor there. And that is not what I have deemed to write about in this post. What I am going to write about is the fact that after this opinion has been announced it can and will create a flood of unintended consequences that will be felt for years to come. What the Iowa Supreme Court did yesterday is open up Iowa’s very own Pandora’s Box.

For years Iowa, and the United States for that matter, have been ruled by moral absolutes. For those of you that had to endure the public education system, moral absolutes are values that the public held above all else. These values were non-negotiable, the people stuck to these values through the good times and the bad. These moral absolutes served this nation well, allowing it to become the greatest nation to have ever graced the planet.

But recent time’s moral degenerates have waged a ferocious attack on traditional American values. They rebelled against the set of values that made it possible for America to thrive. The first value that they targeted was the sanctity of life by proclaiming that a woman should be able to abort her child. As a result we have legal abortion on demand where irresponsible women can rid themselves of that inconvenience in her womb. And now we have the attack on that goes beyond the sanctity of marriage. It is an attack that if successful will nullify moral absolutes and risk throwing our nation into utter chaos.

As with anything that our government does there is a little something called unintended consequences. By coming forth with an opinion as morally bankrupt as this one the Iowa Supreme Court has opened the door to a large variety of perverted and immoral acts and behaviors. Think about it, if homosexuals are now allowed to marry legally in the State of Iowa, how can the state rationally ban polygamy? How can the state maintain that incest should be against the law? How can Iowa legally proclaim that bestiality is unlawful? Do you have an answer for that? How can the state prosecute someone for murder? Well I do, the state can’t outlaw them if this Iowa State Supreme Court ruling is allowed to stand.

As a commenter in another post has said, these are indeed dark days. It is only a matter of time before another sick and twisted individual challenges an Iowa law by claiming it is discriminatory. When will the government of Iowa wake up and see that moral absolutes are what are needed to maintain law and order? Let’s just hope that it is not too late to close Iowa’s Pandora’s Box.