Saturday, April 11, 2009

Fiction and Faction

Iowa judges have imposed gay marriage on a state that voted against it.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

Faction is the eternal condition of mankind. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed,” wrote James Madison in Federalist No. 10. “As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDJmY2FmODQ2ZDE5Mzc2NDYzNDljZDUyYzVhZDdhOGI=&w=MA

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