Approaching 40,000

I got to say that I like John Kerry doing so well in the primary season. Every Wednesday, I get another massive influx of Google hits for folks searching "John Kerry + gay marriage." Because of this push of hits, I'm going to go over 40,000 hits before my first blogosversery (coming up later this month).

With today's ruling out of the Massachusettes Supreme Court that will make gay marriage legal, I've been getting an even higher number of hits looking for stuff on the topic.

I still support the basic idea of gay marriage, but I do have concerns about the way it is being dictated to us by the judiciary. I would much rather see there be a national debate on the topic than to have a bunch of holier-than-thou judges sitting on high trying to bring culture to the great unwashed masses (which is the impression of their attitude that I get from reading excerpts of the ruling. Maybe I'm wrong, but....).

This whole issue is very dangerous to our system of government. We have overreaching judges, law makers who are afraid to exercise their Constitutional authority for fear of maybe being overruled, and executives who want to change our Constitution from limiting the rights of government to limiting the rights of the people.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens from here. I wish that the debate had been allowed to occur at a natural and reasonable pace, but it seems the debate is being forced. Hopefully we can still pull it off without deepening the divides between us.