Mass. Supreme Court runs amok: when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave homosexual couples equal legal standing with traditional marriage, it crossed the line from judging law to making law.(Culture War)

Every elementary school student is--or used to be--taught that the legislative branch of government makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch judges whether the laws of the legislature have been broken or if statutes themselves are unconstitutional. That's called "separation of powers." But Massachusetts' highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), brazenly obliterated that basic distinction between the legislative and judicial branches of government in the November 18 Goodridge v. Department of Public Health decision.

The 4-3 SJC decision openly admitted that laws passed by the legislature indicated that marriage ...