Posted on 06/26/2015 9:41:17 AM PDT by C19fan
The Supreme Court’s opinions in the Obergefell vs. Hodges case — the majority opinion constitutionalizing same-sex marriage and the dissents — can be read here. You will not be surprised that the majority opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, is full of gaseous eructations from the judicial pyloric, e.g., “the right to marry is fundamental because it supports a two-person union unlike any other in its importance to the committed individuals.” And who says a two-person union is unlike any other in its importance? This is groundless assertion.
You really must read the four dissenting opinions in the case. Even I am shocked by the bracing quality of the rhetoric and the analysis. If these justices are correct, this is a dark day for American democracy, and for the practice of traditional religion in America.
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“But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Stick a fork in America. It’s over.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts
We are in a Brave New World now. We have to figure out how to survive in it, and even prosper. Let’s stick together and use our heads.
Reading anything Roberts writes makes me sick.
Persecution is coming? No CWII is coming.
Not just America but the rest of the world. Humanity is heading back to the dark ages.
So much for what We, the People want. America, it was fun while it lasted.
What we have NOW is State dictated religion
something our founders abhorred as another
form of slavery.
I fail to see why the State didn’t just define this
as a civil Union the equal of Holy Matrimony proformed
by a church, this would have respected both sides.
But NOOOOOOOo. Got to “Transform” America.
This may be a transform too far.
Rather the revolt has started today.
For some of us its been going on for a long time.
Insubordination is not just a hobby.
Words mean things. Our advancement as a society will be seriously curtailed if we redefine them to suit fleeting political desires.
There is no possibility of honor or integrity if you can’t keep your word due to drifting definitions.
I will never be civil to a homosexual again under any circumstance. You asked for it. I never hated you, till now.
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp.
Time to push the reset button and start over. We really haven’t had a constitution that has been followed as law since at least FDR. And this just finishes completely.
Constitution convention. Call the states together, let’s get started.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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Talk about disparate impact. This is a true example.
While it’s certainly very, very late in the game, this under 6 minute video explains WHY we’re headed straight toward the rocks of totalitarianism. The goal of the “progressives” (aka COMMUNISTS) who captured academia decades ago is made clear around 4:47 in.
Unless and until the few SANE ADULTS still residing in America get a handle on the intellectual rot and corruption in the educational system here – from Pre-K right up through the colleges and universities – WE. ARE. DOOMED!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJaM8IOev7E
Poem for the Times
Old Churchill, bulldog
Brave and dour
Called his people to their “finest hour”
Arose those noble Brits
To defy the Nazis
And endure the Blitz
What now would the old man say
If he observed today”s UK
And the USA
Two time World War Champs
Have folded their tents
And extinguished their lamps
Darkness, perversion
Subverting the world
Defenders of freedom
Their banners now furled
Before its too late
Before all is lost
Know that our hope
Is not in a political boss
But in obedience to Christ
And the Word of His Cross
Let us cast off frivolity
Tear down religiosity
Let new band of True Disciples arise
His Word in their hearts, His fire in their eyes
His love and His power displayed in their lives
Let their praise and their pleas be heard in the skies
Let them repent of all sin
Let love unite them again
In God’s power alone let them make their boast
May all their boldness be in His Holy Ghost
Against such forces Hell cannot defend
Let’s agree that this world is not our friend
Let’s arise to the battle
Preach the Gospel not prattle
Let’s love one another
And endure to the end.
Original poem by Don Schulze
www.alifeofmiraclesbook.com
Written in Venice, FL June 21, 2015
Absolutely agree. The whole concept of honor or integrity is moot ... and really it has been for some while.
I try to be sanguine about these things and look at them in light of the ebb and flow of history. The wholesale remaking of societies has happened before ... not with good results ... and then there is a swing back.
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