One vote shy of tyranny

On its face it might seem ironic that the very justices who a week before would not allow a voluntary prayer to be said by a high school student at a football game because that might constitute an unconstitutional "establishment of religion" (see Ann Coulter, cover box), should now effectively argue that the Boy Scouts must adopt the United Methodist's view of homosexuality.

But that is what tyranny is: One man, or an oligarchy of elites, telling everybody else not only what they must do, but what they must believe in their very souls.

Americans today should be grateful that men like James Madison left us with the tools we need to peacefully avert such a tyranny before it takes root. Unlike King George III, the Supreme Court has not yet suspended our legislatures and canceled our elections.

We have a choice. Al Gore, if elected, will nominate more justices like John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer. Those who love freedom must work for his defeat.

And, we hope, the day is not long off when Americans will be able to look back and see that our country reached a constitutional nadir on June 29, 2000, when five lawyers legalized the execution of children two feet outside the womb, and when the Supreme Court fell one vote short of forcing the Boy Scouts to violate a moral law that existed before any constitution was written, and that will remain unchanged when all nations have crumbled into dust.

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