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To: Olog-hai

I hate the idea of Same-sex marriage but I also hate the idea of a government agent picking which laws to follow.


35 posted on 01/01/2015 5:29:23 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
I hate the idea of Same-sex marriage but I also hate the idea of a government agent picking which laws to follow.

Judges don't make laws. That power is reserved to the legislative branch by every constitution in America.

And the laws passed by the legislative branch must conform to the Constitution, and to the laws of nature and nature's God. Otherwise they are null and void.

"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


37 posted on 01/01/2015 5:36:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The Gee Oh Pee. Now principle free!)
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To: AppyPappy

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.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Mode=Constitution&Submenu=3&Tab=statutes&CFID=44852167&CFTOKEN=65712053#A1S27


41 posted on 01/01/2015 5:44:18 PM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order in Ferguson? Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi?)
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