Cruz, Lee Move to Defend Marriage and Religious Liberty

Conservative Review ^ | June 8, 2015 | Daniel Horowitz

[armydawg505]

The march to radical change is one step at a time. While this seems to be the final step on this journey, NEVER underestimate the radical left’s push for the next step and step after that. There is no low for them where they will not try to go even lower and its only a matter of time on this.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Yep. Just more fuel for trial lawyers and additional court interpretations and decisions. Essentially, the decision will stop States from enforcing laws against same sex marriage, but it doesn’t force party’s to perform them. That is where the future court cases will go. This thing is like Roe Vs. Wade and there will be court cases testing it for decades. The trial Lawyers love these kind of decisions.

[Tennessee Conservative]

All of the things we are seeing now are just a small part of the plan. The end goal is to destroy religion as we know it. That is the true goal of the left. Without religion we will live in an ‘anything goes’ society. If you hold your nose and read any of the liberal blogs and forums you will see and feel the hatred for religion and anything else that is good, decent and moral.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’m sorry. Where did it say in the ruling that the Church must enforce same sex marriage?

Yes, this is a loss. But not a great one. This entire farce, just like yesterday’s ruling on Obamacare is based on nothing more than a word. Yesterday it was “States.” Today it is “Marriage.”

The problem with Conservatives is that we know how to fight back but we don’t. Look what we did at ChikFilA. Look what we did with Hobby Lobby. Our values. as long as “WE” don’t let them be compromised will never wane.

Want to fight this? Change one word and resubmit to the Congress. Change “Marriage” to say, “Holy Matrimony.” It becomes game, set and match. And it serves as a separation between Church and State. But more importantly, it forces Democrats and RINO’s to go on record.

Remember, you don’t have Holy Matrimony in city hall. It is under God which was the purpose of this fight to begin with. Take the semantics out of it, call it what it really is and let’s win the fight.

[Wallace T.]

There is no requirement that states have to license marriages, or authorize cities or counties from doing so. The legislatures of conservative states should abolish marriage licenses entirely and shut down the ability of cities or counties from issuing them. If a couple, or whatever, want to register a marriage agreement as one would a security agreement on equipment or receivables or a mortgage on real estate, that could be done as a civil matter.

[PoloSec]

Where others would just give up in the face of SCOTUS decision Cruz/Lee keep fighting and further Cruz calls the SCOTUS lawless and rogue.

Boldly battling the enemies within and without... CRUZ 2016!

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Cruz is a Lawyer and his wife is a Wall Street Broker/Analyst. When he decides to go after the Supreme Court, I would hope he would do the same with the Trial Lawyers and Wall Street Bankers AND refuse their money...FAT CHANCE!

[mrsmel]

Now that they have tripped this wire-sodomite “marriage”-IMO, all the doors are down

[tanknetter]

That applies to Churches and other religious institutions. But not, I think, to small businesses/individuals of conscience who seek to live their lives according to their personal beliefs.

[Ohioan]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has already introduced legislation to mitigate the damage of an impending ‘Roe v Wade-style’ ruling in the marriage case. The Protect Marriage from the Courts Act of 2015 would freeze any action implementing the court’s decision by stripping the federal courts from any jurisdiction over marriage. It also invokes Congress’ power to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by making it clear that the judgment only applies to the parties in the current case and cannot be applied to other cases. This will allow states like Alabama to invoke their plenary power over marriage and withhold licenses for same-sex couples – without the federal courts attempting to use this case as precedent for invalidating further state actions.

This is precisely what Congress can do; precisely what Congress should do. By the way, as I have been pointing out for over forty years, it is the way Congress could have handled the abortion, affirmative action, school prayer & Legislative reapportionment abuses; all also rationalized on the basis of 14th Amendment arguments. (For more, see the last Chapter of The Conservative Debate Handbook.)

[loveliberty2]

On another thread today, McConnell is quoted as intimating that Congress might be, ". . . taking a look at whether religious liberty needs to be enhanced." - McConnell

According to the Framers of America's Constitution to structure and limit government power, no branch of government, including the Legislative, was delegated a power to interfere in religious freedom or its free exercise.

North Carolina's James Iredell, appointed by President Washington as a Justice on the first Supreme Court declared:

“Had Congress undertaken to guarantee religious freedom, or any particular species of it, they would then have had a pretense to interfere in a subject they have nothing to do with. Each state, so far as the clause in question does not interfere, must be left to the operation of its own principles.” - James Iredell - Debates on the Constitution, NC, 1788 (Appointed by Geo. Washington to First Supreme Court of the U. S.)

Your comments?

[Ohioan]

My comments?

The First Amendment was never intended to limit the ability of any State or community's ability to hold religious observances. It is a guarantee against Congress--the Federal Legislature's--having any role with respect to same. It did not interfere with any religious community than extant; and it is only by specious rationalizations that the ACLU has twisted our Constitutional Law away from the clear intent, into a battering ram against people of Faith in contemporary America.