Our republican government is wary of judicial tyranny.

Abraham Lincoln was severely critical of a United States Supreme Court decision which held that Congress had no power to restrict slavery in federal territories and that black persons had no rights which white persons were bound to respect.  Lincoln refused to accept the court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford, (1857), as the last word on the subject.  As he said in his First Inaugural Address (1861):

"[I]f the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocable fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."

Kern County citizens who sought to defend traditional marriage, based upon "the laws of nature and of nature's God," are acting in the spirit and following the good example of our nation's sixteenth president.  They understand, as he did, that the people--not the judges--are the sovereign rulers.

Unlike, the majority of the California Supreme Court, Kern County citizens know that the Constitution is based upon what Thomas Jefferson referred to as the "moral law".  The whims of judges cannot be permitted to corrupt marriages and families.