Posted on 04/24/2015 1:07:21 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says he will respect the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage when it rules. Georgia has a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but the high court is expected to hear arguments on the issue next week.
“Federal constitutional issues trump state constitutional issues, " Deal told "A Closer Look" host Denis O'Hayer. "So we will abide by whatever the Supreme Court rules as an interpretation of the United States Constitution.”
On Wednesday, State Attorney General Sam Olens said he'll follow the U.S. Supreme Court's order.
Deal also spoke about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, SB 129, which was stalled in the House Judiciary Committee in the final days of the state Legislature this year.
"What I want is to protect individuals' right of religious freedom without causing the kind of uproar that we saw occur in Indiana and in Arkansas," Deal said.
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Deal doesn’t have to face georgia voters again......but one day he WILL face God. As will I
A small group infiltrate big business and the media.
They then impose their NAZI tactics onto the country and now are trying to suppress or destroy any obstacle to them.
The founding fathers will be turning in their graves at how this country has become a nation of cowards.
No doubt he would have accepted the Dred Scot ruling with equal aplomb.
I used to be a Georgia voter. Now? Forget it!
Deal is the worst kind of RINO scrum. He is a Federal dollar Hoe and never saw a Federal dollar he would go on his knees for. Last Fall we had to choose between him and Jason Carter Jimmah’s grandson. What a choice!
People in GA are not going to go for gay marriage. This is the bible belt. Its going to cause bad problems here.
There was a time in this country that the people were sovereign and could, through their representatives, decide things like the definition of marriage.
Instead we have the tyranny of the black-robed.
And the craven capitulation of the elected.
How clueless can you get? This governor unsurprisingly doesn’t understand that since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay agenda issues like gay marriage, the governor will be violating Section 1 of the 14th Amendment for using constitutionally unprotected, PC gay “rights” to trump the 10th Amendment-protected power of the people.
Hi Georgia Girl 2. Don’t cheat by looking, but do you know what the 10th Amendment and Section 1 of the 14th Amendment do?
This is actually a 17th Amendment problem. Please bear with the following explanation.
First, note that the Supreme Court has historically clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The consequence of Gov. Deal’s evident ignorance of the Constitution and its history is this. He does not understand that probably most of the federal funding that he is getting on his knees for should never have left his state in the first place.
So how did the feds wind up with Georgia’s money?
Note that the Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The idea was that senators were to protect their states in Congress by killing bills that not only stole state powers, but also stole state revenues associated with those powers.
The problem is that misguided voters demanded the right to vote for federal senators. And state lawmakers caved in and ratified the 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up their voices in Congress by doing so.
And now, as a consequence of the 17th Amendment, low-information voters go home after voting for their favorite senators and watch football, clueless to the following major problem. Their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills which the Supreme Court excerpt above clearly indicates that Congress cannot do.
And what’s worse is that the corrupt Senate then confirms activist justices who declare that the unconstitutional appropriations laws that they helped the House to pass are constitutional.
What a racket!
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
“The consequence of Gov. Deal’s evident ignorance of the Constitution and its history is this. He does not understand that probably most of the federal funding that he is getting on his knees for should never have left his state in the first place. “
No chit Chirlock.
I’m sorry I voted for him. I can’t escape the feeling that voting is a waste time. I haven’t given up on it yet. But I’m getting closer to that conclusion.
All Democracy degenerates into the tyranny of the stupid as directed by the greedy. It's just that, historically and hysterically speaking, being Americans and all, we have achieved the Tyranny of the Stupid as Directed by the Greedy a whole lot faster than our Founders could have reasonably expected.
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