Posted on 12/27/2003 3:08:49 PM PST by Federalist 78
You're correct - it was Burke:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Homeschooled kids should make a difference. I was reading something a few weeks ago about how much more likely homeschooled kids are to vote, and to vote informed on the issues.
It will just take time. And in the mean time, this generation needs to spread the facts on homosexuality, that there is hope for homosexuals and they can leave the lifestyle if they want to.
Hellooooooo??!!?!
1) Child is molested by adult homosexual.
2) Child feels sexual pleasure during that molestation, which he (a) did not consent to and (b) is hardwired to feel (just because sexual pleasure is perverted doesn't mean it's less pleasurable).
3) Child masturbates to memory over course of several years.
4) Continue over several years, with other sexual encounters thrown in for reinforcement, and voila. Homosexual 'orientation.'
This is why I protect my sons from the likes of the aforementioned Larry and Curly.
Homosexuality is maintained through RECRUITMENT, jack. Just like any voluntary activity.
You original post did not include anything about recruitment, only masturbatory fantasies. No one would ever masturbate over something that did not bring them sexual pleasure in some form.
In the case of my cousin, I am certain that he was not "recruited". He and I have had extensive discussions concerning his homosexuality and its possible causes. We both began to develop sexual desires at the same age but our polarities were exactly opposite. Because of our unusual genetic/family relationship it has always been an interesting topic for both of us.
What I wonder about is the demand by the court that a State legislature write law.
I thought a court could over turn a law, make all pertinent laws null and void, but I didn't know that a court could force a legislature to pass a certain law.
"The Father of the Constitution," James Madison,(FEDERALIST No. 51)
But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates
The Avalon Project : Federalist No 48 "It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it."
One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution, is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct.
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny…. In order to form correct ideas on this important subject, it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct. The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu. If he be not the author of this invaluable precept in the science of politics, he has the merit at least of displaying and recommending it most effectually to the attention of mankind.
….The judges, again, are so far connected with the legislative department as often to attend and participate in its deliberations, though not admitted to a legislative vote. From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that, in saying ``There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,'' or, ``if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,'' he did not mean that these departments ought to have no PARTIAL AGENCY in, or no CONTROL over, the acts of each other. His meaning, as his own words import, and still more conclusively as illustrated by the example in his eye, can amount to no more than this, that where the WHOLE power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the WHOLE power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted….The reasons on which Montesquieu grounds his maxim are a further demonstration of his meaning. ``When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body,'' says he, ``there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest THE SAME monarch or senate should ENACT tyrannical laws to EXECUTE them in a tyrannical manner. '' Again: ``Were the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for THE JUDGE would then be THE LEGISLATOR.
FindLaw: US Constitution: Article IVSection 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government….
FindLaw: US Constitution: Article IV: Annotations pg. 18 of 18Section 4. Obligations of United States to States
GUARANTEE OF REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT
In Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 1 (1849), the Supreme Court established the doctrine that questions arising under this section are political, not judicial, in character and that ''it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State . . . as well as its republican character.''
Republican Government: James Madison, Federalist, no. 39, 250-- ...
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.
If we resort for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behaviour….According to the provisions of most of the constitutions, again, as well as according to the most respectable and received opinions on the subject, the members of the judiciary department are to retain their offices by the firm tenure of good behaviour.
….And in Delaware and Virginia, he is not impeachable till out of office. The President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office. The tenure by which the Judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behaviour.
Could any further proof be required of the republican complextion of this system, the most decisive one might be found in its absolute prohibition of titles of nobility, both under the Federal and the State Governments; and in its express guarantee of the republican form to each of the latter.
Republican Government: Introduction
The republicanism of the Founders' Constitution might seem to be a matter of course. According to Article 4, section 4, the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government….
At the core of the notion of republican government appears to be the principle that the many should rule, and that the body politic "should move that way whither the greater force carries it, which is the consent of the majority" (Locke, no. 1). Which way that greater force moved was for the people to determine, consulting their interests and their better second thoughts. In that sense a variety of forms of institutional arrangements might all deserve the name "republican," with the greater fitness of one or the other form turning on the particular, even peculiar, circumstances of people, time, and place. What was critical, John Adams insisted (Novanglus, no. 7, 6 Mar. 1775), was that the government be "bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend."
To restore some semblance of republican government, the legislatures of Mass and the U.S. need to begin throttling back on the runaway judiciary. The SJC of Mass ignored the Massachusetts Constitution.
That's because they aren't having sex with bisexual men.
SHOULD be reversed.
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