This is the story Harry Coin mentioned in a comment a few days ago. The story is huge, not only for the political implications — the removal of activist judges, but that gay marriage, a moral question with the deepest cultural implications, was the driver leading to their removal. America values the public square, which is why the great debates about morality develop a political cast, even though they can never be reduced to politics alone. When morality and politics coalesce into a seamless unit however (Progressive politics for example), America runs the risk of becoming captive to ideology (and following the failures of the Europeans — fascism, Nazism, Communism, Jacobism<\/a>, and other deceptions). <\/p>\n The American Founders however, in their great wisdom, realized that the greatest threat to liberty is centralized power which is why the restrictions of the Bill of Rights concern the government, not individuals. Iowans, to their great credit, showed us again why the Founders were right, and why America, despite our faults, is still the home of the free.<\/p>\n
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