Posted on 05/25/2004 12:44:22 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
The same-sex “marriages” taking place in Massachusetts are a perfect example of the breakdown of the rule of law in our society. Not only did the courts rebuff the legislature and ignore the will of the people in imposing same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts, but their example has also encouraged disregard for the legal process all across the state among other Massachusetts government officials.
Before the same-sex “marriage” law took effect, Governor Mitt Romney announced that same-sex couples from other states would not be allowed to marry in Massachusetts, since their marriages wouldn’t be legal in their home states. But in several cities, officials who believe that Romney’s stance is “discriminatory” are marrying out-of-state couples anyway. The Washington Post reports, “Romney has threatened legal consequences against clerks who do not follow his guidelines. He said licenses issued to out-of-state couples would be ‘null and void,’ a stance that is expected to be challenged in court.”
To his credit Governor Romney is following the law and obeying the court when the court handed down a judicial coup d’etat, basically by a 4 to 3 vote telling the legislature it had to enact same-sex “marriage” statutes. Then when the legislature passed a constitutional amendment against same-sex “marriage,” which cannot take effect until 2006, the court refused to stay its order. That’s judicial tyranny, and though it must have hurt the governor and the legislature, coequal branches of government, they obeyed the law—not so across the state of Massachusetts with the clerks, however.
What they are doing is very much like what happened a few months ago when the mayor of San Francisco issued same-sex “marriage” licenses in direct violation of state law. It’s also like what county officials in Benton County, Oregon, have been doing since March. They’re refusing to grant any marriage licenses because, again, they believe that allowing only heterosexuals to marry is discriminatory.
As I said at the time of the San Francisco debacle, when government officials won’t uphold the rule of law, a nation begins to slide into anarchy. The mayor broke the law because he thought it was “wrong” and discriminatory. Well, if we all broke laws simply on that basis, how long would this country survive?
It’s true that some Christians have practiced civil disobedience in cases where they believed the law to be wrong. But there’s a difference: Those Christians believed in a higher law given by God and believed that the particular law they were disobeying went against that higher law. They weren’t single-handedly trying to create and enforce new laws based on their own personal ideas of right and wrong.
What we’re seeing in Massachusetts and across the country is the result of a postmodern rejection of truth. If there is no transcendent moral law, and all laws are subject solely to human whim, then what’s to stop people in positions of power from making up the law as they go along? As we continue to flout that higher moral law in this country by adopting practices like same-sex “marriage,” I think we’re about to find out just how dangerous it can be to live in the middle of chaos. We need a Federal Marriage Amendment now.
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Some folks want to portray same-sex "marriage" as some sort of logical step forward for our Republic. However, it is actually a step into an abyss that will ultimately destroy the rule of law and our Republic right along with it.
Anarchy is coming. Be ready for it.
"However, it is actually a step into an abyss that will ultimately destroy the rule of law and our Republic right along with it. "
And how can we fight the war on terror when we are fighting eachother? We are in deep trouble and headed for warfare in our own streets I fear.
Has there ever been a time when we could afford to ignore the enemy within?
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Yep, lock and load... "When" is the only question.
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When things go this far out of whack, I always ask the question, "WHO BENEFITS". Well, for one, the lawyers. We have many more attorneys than are needed...this will keep a few busy since unions among guys don't last as long as hetro's.
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Clean and practice, clean and practice.
It's all about America's filthy, perverted politics!
America has misplaced its moral compass and having it in our hands is what kept us ahead of the "pack" of slavering, communist/socialist wolves. The remedy, of course, is to cleanse our "central government" and get rid of all the dead weight: like Byrd-Brain, Specter, Daschole, Kennedy, The Twins From Maine, The two Rinos from Ohio....make no mistake, we're in trouble both from the DemocRATs and the RepublicRATs!
We need to rid our society of political correctness, pornography and the mysterious "love" affair the left (and our complicit politicians) are having with homosexuals that does nothing but further their demonic, sinful and disgusting lifestyle. They, of course, want to share this lifestyle with the rest of Americans by ruining the institution of marriage and family and they want to get their evil, clammy hands on the youngsters!
Americans need to stop moddy-coddling perversion; turn their backs on these satanists and relegate them to the sewers and dump-sites from which they spawned.
I'm waiting for a mayor somewhere to begin passing out "open and concealed carry" permits, because that's his own take on the 2A.
If any such mayor is reading this, I'd like him or her to know that taking the action Travis suggests will absolutely guarantee Mr. Silverback writing a check to their re-election campaign.
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