Tell, Don't Ask?

Is the local media misinterpreting the President's concern re: Prop 8? According to local media outlets, the President "tells" the Supreme Court to over-turn the California ban on same-sex marriage.

Really? The presidential reach is that far and that firm? I thought, silly me, that politicians serve at the will of the people, and the people in California upheld the ban. I remember the LBGT community lamenting that the people of California did not over-turn the first vote on the issue of same sex marriage, optomistically predicting that "we'll get the law changed next time," but it has not happened. Not yet; maybe next time; maybe, not ever. It depends on the people's vote.

The Supreme Court can visit the concept of same-sex marriage and examine it in terms of the Constitution, but until that process is complete and a ruling determined and issued, no one can "tell" the Supreme Court what to do. As a matter of fact, it is the Court that determines which cases it considers, not the President--unless he made overturning Prop 8 a condition of his appointments to the court? Methinks all the visits to Hollywood, all the support from the LBGT community during the re-election process came with a price tag: get gay marriage legal in all 50 states and do it ... now.

I am neither for nor against gay marriage: I am against the supposition that it's the President's decision to make. We, the people. Remember?