Court’s mistake — creating a new law

Again in the Aug. 12 Gazette letters, conservatives are painted as mean-spirited, intolerant, religious nuts for believing that the Iowa Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in allowing same-sex marriage. It is my experience that most conservatives are not opposed to civil unions for gay couples. We really don't think it is any of our business how people choose to live their lives. We simply don't believe that small interest groups should be able to order society to suit their own wants and desires without any respect for thousands of years of tradition and moral teaching.

Before the court's ruling, any gay man already had the equal right to marry a woman as any straight man did. When they ruled that men can marry men and women can marry women, they (effectively) created new law that has never been passed by any Iowa Legislature. This was their mistake, a big one.

The people have seen liberal cliques use the court to accomplish what they cannot accomplish in open debate and through the court of public opinion so often that the court “trick” has worn out its usefulness. The people have every right to vote out of office civil servants who abuse their offices, and I wouldn't be surprised if Judge David Wiggins is the next civil servant to learn this lesson.

Gary Glockhoff

Cedar Rapids