Posted on 01/01/2015 3:04:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
Marriage is defined in the Florida Constitution as adopted by the People of Florida
ARTICLE I
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SECTION 27. Marriage defined.—Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.
History.—Proposed by Initiative Petition filed with the Secretary of State February 9, 2005; adopted 2008.
Everything on that list leads to slavery for Americans.
Also, nothing on that list is endorsed by the Founding Fathers, who actually wanted to establish God’s rule on earth, frankly.
If the Founding Fathers believed “that’s how it works”, then they would have endured the taxation without representation and we would have continued as colonies of the British Empire.
There appears to already be chaos in the judicial system. It’s up to the legislators to stop it, but they’re ignoring it.
When politicians abandon God, then God abandons them. Remember that we already had one political party attempt to omit God from the party platform.
It’s an admittedly bleak view, when one has lost faith in the American people, and it renders a lot of these Constitutional/governmental topics rather moot. There aren’t any real answers. The law and the Constitution are only going to be as good as the people, and the current generational crop of Americans is a pale and pathetic shadow of its forebearers.
Witnessing the lazy disinterest by the public in Obama’s outrageous lawlessness (open-borders and amnesty being a prime example), or the quiet acceptance of such abject evil and moral deviancy (as in the case of homo marriage), there’s really no reason for me to somehow look to politics as offering any kind of remedy. We have leaders who ignore our laws and our Constitution, and basically rule by decree. That’s a dam breaking that isn’t just put back together. It eats on itself, and pushes us into a third-world style banana-republic run by “strongmen.”
Indeed, we might find the only way to combat this is with our ‘own’ dictatorial strongmen, as incredibly distasteful and unpalatable as that sounds.
“Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. And consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should, in all points, conform to his Maker’s will. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures. These precepts, when revealed, are found upon comparison to be really a part of the original law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences to man’s felicity. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.”
— William Blackstone
“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty and personal safety.
“Hence, in a state of nature, no man has any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command, or exact obedience from him....
“Hence also, the origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent? To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man the right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.”
“When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.”
— Alexander Hamilton
“...Are Americans no longer fit for self government?...”
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That is the thought behind my tagline.
(Very few people are old enough to remember "Pogo".)
I seriously think Article V is the last chance we have.
They don’t obey the plain language of the Constitution now. Why on Earth does anyone believe they’ll obey any changes a Convention would make?
Duty to mislead misinformed people who are mentaly ill, enshrining by the power of the pen a hideous union.
Technically marriage never had any thing to do with so called sexual orientations or proclivities... many time marriages occured for main reasons other than sex. Sex is not a foundation of marriage, only a cursorial aspect of its multifacetedness. But our society is so perversion or feelings addled, it is all that matters now.
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