In an interview with far-right pastor and Colorado state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmit today, Phyllis Schlafly declared that the Supreme Court’s recent marriage equality ruling should simply be ignored while “we the people” decide if we want to overturn it.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution about homosexual marriage,” Schlafly said. “The judges made it up and some people think that because they did and the Supreme Court has spoken, therefore we have to accept it. We don’t.”
Likening the ruling to the Dred Scott decision, Schlafly said that “we don’t have to obey it just because a few judges said so,” before declaring that GOP presidential hopefuls must declare that they will flout the decision, something several candidates have already done.
“We just don’t believe in accepting what some judge says is the new law,” she said. “The Constitution starts with ‘we the people,’ and so what we need to do is say just because the Supreme Court has handed down a decision, we’ll re-evaluate it and we’ll decide whether we want to overturn it or not.”
