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A. Scott Loveless, guest-posting at Hugh Hewitt’s blog, appeals to California voters to reassert natural law rights and vote yes on Proposition 8.

The post is long and — eek — footnoted.

It refers to the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the Constitution, King George, the American Founders, the U.S. Supreme Court, the California State Supreme Court, John Locke, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. It touches on criminal codes, tort, contract, and property laws.

Here is the plea ending the post:

Rights, duties, freedoms, virtue, morality, public order, and the general welfare. These concepts can only coexist in a pluralistic society when the individuals comprising the larger society assume a personal responsibility toward others. We humans exist in a web of relationships, families in particular. Natural law morality guided by conscience preserves and strengthens those relationships and social bonds, builds trust, inhibits our selfishness. We need to regain an appreciation of the morality of natural law as the foundation for our law, both domestically and internationally, and the courts must self-police in recognizing the consequent inherent limitations on their powers, or the grand aspirations of the American Declaration will have come to naught.

The People of California need to reassert their natural law rights against a State Supreme Court that has disdained and disregarded them. They need to overrule the Court’s decision to redefine marriage according to a morality that sees only libertine license as good, with no counterbalancing duties and responsibilities. A State, any State, is a poor substitute for responsible self-governance, self-control, and self-discipline. Nothing less than freedom, true freedom, is at stake, for our children and grandchildren, if not for ourselves.

Please, California, enact Proposition 8. Much more than marriage is at stake, and not just on your fair shores. Help protect our children’s and grandchildren’s marriages, and in doing so, help us take back our Constitution from those who were sworn to preserve it but have been its greatest undoing.

The entire post is well worth reading prior to voting on election day.