Posted on 10/30/2012 1:50:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Very, very good article
While I think constitutionally you're right, the problem is that one state changing the definition of marriage creates major havoc on the others. Thus it needs to be rejected at the national level with a constitutional amendment.
Not only do we have to worry about states creating problems for other states, but we also have federal judges making up laws and misapplying equal protection clauses. Leaving it to the states is a recipe for the success of those that want to redefine sodomy as marriage.
I know. I know. But the broad argument really needs to be addressed, not a specific case. If we voted on a states right to define marriage, then all bases can be covered in a yes vote..including polygamy, brother and sister etc. Now, if gay marriage is approved (I said if), next thing you know three dudes and a monkey are suing for their right to be married. Get it?
In the end, I think the state does have the right to define marriage. Now as far as one state voting one way and another state voting another way all I can say is some states have the death penalty and other don’t. I know most states traditionally recognize marriages from other states but who says that’s an absolute?
The bottom line is all this should remain in the voters hands....not like abortion was handled.
Considering sociopaths are merely chameleons, all he could do in the last debate was pretend. Unfortunate for Obama, he was supposed to be more assertive, not stare like a lunatic (which is something I am certain women noticed).
The fact that Romney wasn't fazed in the slightest and spoke confidently to his face, with command of the issues, showed Obama to be a giant phony to all who were disinterested enough to only realize it now, but had not yet drunk the Kool-Aid.
Consequently, Obama was rendered powerless and his poll numbers show it.
The polling has been a fraud from the beginning, and the duplicitous efforts of the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms have been transparent to the point of eyerolling silliness. Americans have been waiting to dump the accidental president for at least two years. The alleged “momentum” for Romney is actually little more than the mass public excitement over the impending dismissal of Ubama.
People love the opportunity to correct a mistake. It brings closure.
Great article. Thank you
In all of this...I have concluded that there is one piece of constancy in everything 0bama touches that is not legislative or administrative; And that is, 2-3 days later and it’s a fart in the wind. It’s a complete nothingburger. If they manage to get it to last more than 3 days (war on women, Bain, doggie on roof, outsource jobs) it boomerangs right back in their smug little Marxist faces.
Let me be clear; there is massive danger in 0bamacare; primarily because we do not know how much of it will be repealed. I think most of “us” understand that some residue will inevitably remain, no matter how odious it may be. Likewise, Dodd-Frank is a complete piece of garbage that has had no effect on the intended targets; because nobody quite understands quite how to put the law into effect. But it HAS had the effect of raising fees and CC interest rates for EVERY AMERICAN. (It flat out amazes me that people cheer for this crap that has not affected bank leverage or corporate anything one iota, but they somehow ignore their credit card stmts bearing triple the interest rate they did pre-DF.
There’s one overriding theme of 0bama, and that is, “here today, gone tomorrow”. Thank God.
Yes but abortion was handled with a Federal court not the Federal legislative process. If we attempt to leave gay marriage to the state legislative process, it will probably get handled by a federal court, too. It's why we need to head it off with legislation.
Death penalty is not a good analogy though because it doesn't cross state lines, except maybe the extradition process. Marriage does because of company sponsored family health insurance. Get a handful of states backing gay marriage and the battle is lost because national firms will push states for consistency.
That is easy -0zer0's unparalleled epic failure.
Anyone but the kenyan...
I think it was the debates, people finally got to see the real Mitt Romney and discovered he wasn’t the caricature the Democrats made him out to be.
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