Posted on 02/17/2014 10:47:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Another week and another judge telling us what he or she thinks of same sex marriage.
The latest is a judge that has found the Virginia ban unconstitutional.
First, how can something be "unconstitutional" that isn't in the US Constitution? Can anyone find the word "marriage" in the document? I only find that word in state laws. Unlike other countries, we do not issue a federal marriage license in the US.
Second, why are judges sticking their noses in anyway? Who said that federal judges define what marriage is anyway?
My position on same sex marriage is that it should be decided by voters and state legislatures.
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It’s not in the Constitution - correct. There is also nothing in the Constitution which grants license to judges or anyone else to disregard the concept of language, yet these judges have done so.
It will never get to a popular vote, because the lefties know how it would go.
Last night in Seattle went to Spamalot - the Monty Python musical based on The Quest for the Holy Grail.
In this version Lancelot turns out to be gay and marries a “princess” held captive by ...err...its...father who of course wants him/her to marry a girl. Towards the end of the show Lancelot, having just married this person, says “and just think in a thousand years this will be legal in Washington State”. The audience cheered loudly.
It was a great show, very funny, but I have to think that this gay marriage thing is here and not going away. And then this a.m. that guy broadcasting the Olympics...they’ve moved into the mainstream.
The audience cheering loudly indicates that many people either are in favor of homosexual marriage, or accept it as a fait accomplished, and thought it was a clever line to insert into the performance.
public opinion polls suggest that we have reached a tipping point on acceptance of homosexual marriage.
Changing the definition of a word and a legal term is troubling, in my opinion.
Last year’s Supreme Court decision on marriage indicated that the federal government had to recognize same sex marriages from states which allowed it. BUT THIS ACTION ALSO set up a situation in which the federal government is not allowed to define a legal definition of the legal term marriage.
Now it appears that only federal judges are allowed to define the legal term marriage.
Yep. Lefty-progs want no part of real democracy, though they sure like using the name.
I suspect that this author is not necessarily aware of 10th Amendment-protected state powers to decide such things, and is naïvely reflecting on such powers.
It's apparent the homos will have their way on this.
Out best hope is to ensure it's decided on a state by state basis, saving a few states rather than losing the entire nation.
That said, I don't believe this issues will survive a USSC decision. They are likely to rule the 14th Amendment dictates homo marriage wherever state sponsored and recognized marriage exists.
It won't be long.
We should all be asking ourselves: How does this harm me and mine? How do I protect me and mine?
No need for a vote. It’s been decided already.
The counter-argument to the “marriage isn’t in the Constitution” argument is almost always, “sure, marriage isn’t there - but Equal Protection is.”
Whether or not we accept this line of argument (I think it’s pure B.S., and clearly not in keeping with the intent of the 14th Amendment’s authors), this is the argument we need to somehow counter.
I disagree. It only seems popular because the virus breeders and their psychophants are yelling the loudest.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Even Oregon voted over 70% against gay marriage!
Only non-elected judges have attempted either to override those votes or force something else upon the people.
In some blue states, liberal legislatures voted other things in favor of gay unions.
Liberal elites don’t trust ‘the people’ any more than any ‘thugocracy’ trust the people.
Elites want fellow elites to make the calls...
Our beautiful country is on the way to becoming a creepy banana republic.
Honestly I dont see how 51% of the voters can decide the laws of nature don’t apply. Two people of the same Sex can’t make a child, and therefore cannot be said to be married in responsibility for that child.
You might as well ask people to vote on the laws of gravity it really don’t matter what they say the apple still falls from the tree just as the two men are still sterile sodomites not husband & wife.
My prediction is that if we ever come to the point where gay marriage is legal in the whole country, five years later the divorce rate among gays will be higher than that among straights.
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