Posted on 06/02/2015 8:40:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a Meet the Press interview on Sunday, presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the upcoming Supreme Court decision on gay marriage has "validity" but is not "the final word."
Santorum, who officially announced his candidacy last week, was asked by Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd if he agreed with Mike Huckabee's assessment that states should take action to disregard a ruling many experts expect to be in favor of attempting to redefine marriage in the United States.
"Well, I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president," declared Santorum. "They do it all the time.
"But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back," added Santorum. "I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government."
Santorum continued to emphasize the theme of a possible "pushback" against the upcoming decision.
"I think it's important to understand that the Supreme Court doesn't have the final word," declared Santorum. "It has its word. Its word has validity. But it's important for Congress and the president, frankly, to push back when the Supreme Court gets it wrong."
Santorum compared his opposition to a possible upcoming favorable decision on gay marriage to the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling, which radically expanded abortion rights nationwide.
"Roe versus Wade was decided 30 some years ago, and I continue to fight that," said Santorum, "because I think the court got it wrong.
"We're not bound by what nine people say in perpetuity," added Santorum.
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Who is Rick Santorum?
If he says he’s a woman, he’s a woman.
Least he and Cruz will actually stand for marriage and not run away from it like the other cowards or the trolls which actually think homosexual sham marriage is alright.
Santorum registers about a 0.01 on my political recognition scale.
The guy is invisible.
Politically impossible to overrule the Supreme Court now. You need a constitutional amendment which requires two thirds of the states or two thirds of the congress to enact it. In our nation of today, what issue gets that sort of almost universal support?
And the Supremes are unelected with lifetime appointments. They are totally unanswerable to the American people. It is the least democratic institution in our government and now the most powerful. This system is broken and as long as 5 people can throw out any law they don't like and ban if forevermore, it won't get fixed.
Actually, “Rick”, there is NO validity to Just Laws which promote Vice and evil use of fhe human body, which reduces babies to slaves to be bought and sold and women’s bodies to be factories, and teaches irrational concepts to children (removes Reason/Science), and which makes using humans as a “Means to an End” (Marxism) “Good”.
Using a Justice system to promote pulbic vice is EVIL law and as Justice John Marshall even stated—makes that “law” “NULL AND VOID”.
We either have Rule of Law-—or Rule of sodomites....they are incompatible.
Mighty weak tea from Santorum.
“Gay marriage” violates the laws of nature and nature’s God, which makes it null and void wherever and whenever it is tried.
It also destroys the possibility of the fulfillment of any clause of the stated purposes of the Constitution of the United States.
Tell the judges to go to hell. Impeach. Remove. Repeat as necessary.
As Jefferson feared, we have an oligarchy “ruling” us, forcing Vice into a “Justice” system—totally transforming America so children will be devoid of Wisdom/Reason growing up in such a toxic culture—not unlike the vulgar, homo-erotic Weimar Republic.
The NWO has to destroy Christian Ethics in children which is based on Natural Laws (God’s Works).
To destroy the Natural Family is pure Marxist ideology—to place children in artificial environments so the possibiltiy of Knowing the Truth is impossible-—like the minds of little Afghani boys who are put into harems and used like girls-—to destroy and warp their perceptions of their own bodies and that of all human beings.....so their desires will be TOTALLY warped-—so they will always be slaves to Vice.
Truth will set us Free-—that is why Truth is never allowed-—for 60 years in schools——just indoctrination to destroy Free Will (choice) because the minds are being programmed with lies and embedding emotions (desires) to irrational concepts.
The only Reason for Education is to teach Virtue (Aristotle).....Wisdom is discerning “Good and Evil”. There is no possibility for Wisdom with the Afghani boys culture where Science is ejected, women are abused like in all homosexual cultures, in that toxic environment which shapes desires and Reality.
Destroying maternal instincts has been the plan all along-—destroy the concept of nurturing mother and ALL biological connections of the family-—(families come in ALL shapes) — and she will not only kill her own genetic offspring—but voluntarily give her babies over to the State.
See how that destruction of maternal instincts in little girls profits babies-— watch youtube videos show “feral children” who “flourish” in ex-communist nations-—because of the lack of maternal “love” in early childhood. All sorts of perversions exist and ALL the institutionalize children are treated in the most abominable, evil, vile ways....NWO.....objective is to remove all biological connections so useless idiots can be killed at will by the State.
I can’t get it through my head that the US Supreme Court make law.
I know they duly consider causes and cases, make judgments, offer opinions and rule on validity of causes brought before them, but do these actions actually make law?
Seems I read once they are charged to offer an opinion based on the Constitution. An opinion is not law. Right?
Exactly.
Amen
Scotus will rule that states do determine their own marriage rules, but simultaneously they’ll remind that marriages in New York aren’t disbanded just because the couple moves to Alabama.
So, without being severely criticized they will finesse the issue and bring about homosexual marriage throughout the USA.
I do not see a ruling that says “marriage in the USA can only be heterosexual.” I just don’t see them going there.
I can see them saying “equal rights demands homosexuals also be able to marry.” But that’s a political hot potato, and they are on the chopping block over ObamaCare. So, I see the middle ground ‘states’ right’s” ruling on their part.
ObamaCare is so badly broken that I see them ruling in a way that will force it to be rewritten. They’ll legislate from the bench on that one. They’ll change it...not bless it or kill it. IOW, they’ll artfully legislate from the bench.
They are, after all, politicians first.
Go Rick!
Why doesn’t Mr. Santorum simply point out that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage? In fact, the only sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 19th Amendment.
So the states are free to make 10th Amendment-protected laws which discriminate on the basis of sex with respect to marriage, prohibiting constitutionally unprotected same-sex marriage altogether if that’s what the legal majority voters in a given state want.
Not only can they. They must. Any law that violates the laws of nature and nature’s God are null and void.
Regardless what the corrupt media wants everybody to think about the Court's decision in United States v. Windsor concerning the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), although the Court struck down DOMA’s Section 3, Section 2 of DOMA is evidently still in effect.
DOMA:
This Act may be cited as the “Defense of Marriage Act”.
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
Note that DOMA’s Section 2 is reasonably based on the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause, Section 1 of Article IV, Section 1 giving Congress the power to decide the effect of one state’s public acts and records in other states.
Regarding gay marriage, Section 2 of DOMA clarifies that the states don’t have to recognize gay marriages from other states.
Hope you’re right, but I don’t have any confidence that Kennedy will continue to hold his last position.
And if he were to get the Republican nomination?
You think he’s worse than Romney?
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