Posted on 07/01/2015 2:22:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Christians are jailed for not marrying gays Mcconnell will shrug and say nothing we can do!
I'll bet that secretly they're relieved that they don't have to pretend anymore and that the SCROTUS gave them the perfect excuse to hide behind.
Then why have a congress? Waste of money just to give us the illusion of representative govt.
Has this fool ever taken the conservative side of anything
Senator McConnell,
If you would just go ahead and surrender on the other issues conservatives are interested in then you would not even be bothered to have to answer the phone or give a statement. And we would know what issues we would know not to count on you.
We need Mitch for Trade Agreements.
I don’t even need any trade agreements!
Exactly. Why in the hell can’t these morons even look back as far as Prohibition. That not only was the “law of the land,” that was OVERWHELMINGLY voted in as a Constitutional Amendment . . . and still repealed. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was the law of the land until it nearly bankrupted the country and was repealed. FFS.
Like all cowards, he talks a real good conservative if he knows he won’t have to actually produce a result. kind of like the guy who defends his wife’s honor, standing behind her yelling, “Hold me back!”
Probably the best thing this worthless pudd could do now is announce his retirement tomorrow effective next Wednesday and leave before he does any more damage to the country, the Senate, his Party, and his already tattered reputation. He is long past his USE BY date.
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Oops, that is so May, 2015. Should be her/him. Sorry if anyone was offended.
“This decision on gay marriage is the law of the land and there’s not much I want to do.”
FTFY
You’re entirely correct. In fact, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches.
And you may be interested in the following information from a related thread concerning Congress’s constitutional authority to regulate the effect of gay marriage between the states which Sen. McConnel has evidently “overlooked” (ahem).
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McConnell is wrongly ignoring, imo, that Congress has already exercised the most important constitutional option concerning the constitutionally unprotected “right” to gay marriage.
More specifically, regardless that activist justices have bluffed that the 14th Amendment requires the states to respect gay marriages from other states, McConnell is ignoring that Congress had already exercised its constitutional authority of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, Section 1 of Article IV, to clarify that the states do not have to respect gay marriages of other states. This is evidenced by Section 2 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which is evidently still in effect regardless that the corrupt media wants everybody to think that the Supreme Court ruled DOMA unconstitutional.
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.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and activist justices along with it.
My thoughts exactly. Republicans didn't accept Dred. We didn't accept Separate but Equal. We didn't accept Roe. And we won't accept Obamacare or gay "marriage". Even exists, but that doesn't mean we have to embrace it.
Exactly!
AW, shut up....Mcwhatever....like another freeper said....so, now the Supreme Court over rules God? Not in my world.
OH, and I got a solicitation from Boehner in the mail today....had return postage paid....sent it back with a note....GTH.
Good thing these little weasels of men were not in the military.
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