Posted on 06/26/2015 12:16:57 PM PDT by tuffydoodle
Governor Greg Abbott today released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling:
“The Supreme Court has abandoned its role as an impartial judicial arbiter and has become an unelected nine-member legislature. Five Justices on the Supreme Court have imposed on the entire country their personal views on an issue that the Constitution and the Court’s previous decisions reserve to the people of the States.
(Excerpt) Read more at gov.texas.gov ...
Exactly. All I would add to that would be a directive to County Clerks prohibiting them from issuing licenses for deviant marriages.
Abortion Barbie is that you?
So true.
Civil disobedience is great, and every Christian should be willing to shut down their business in protest. But if you are suggesting state governments disobey, it is a losing strategy, and Obama will be happy to enforce "civil rights" by force. I'm sure he is praying for a crisis he can intervene in.
So he’s going to endeavor to persevere.
I wonder what his stance will be if there’s another civil suit over cakes or flowers.
Blah blah blah. Is he gonna ignore the courts ruling? I don’t think so. All these politicians make me sick. Hot air but they all fall in line. Time for civil disobedience. Anything else is just window dressing.
"go slow" does NOT = DO NOT ISSUE.
THIS decision doesn’t affect religious liberty, except to government employees who might have to choose between issuing a license and their conscience. The next one might, as you point out.
Take a hike, statist thug.
It DOES affect religious liberty - it makes deviant marriage a civil right. Remember when the civil rights of blacks was recognized? They marched them into schools under National Guard oversight, as is seen in the pic above. That pic is soon to be the same thing, with Nat'l Guard leading the deviants into our churches. Well, I can promise one thing: when they show up to my church to do so, I will be at the doors, armed and ready to do that which will inevitably be required of us.
That's only tangentially related to the homo marriage decision.
My only point here is that if the criteria for praise is defying the SCOTUS order, the pastor protection act is not defiance, not even close. SCOTUS order doesn't affect pastors in the least. It affects only those in the government who issue marriage licenses.
The religious sphere and the secular/government/civil sphere do have some intersecting zones, but I don;t see this decision as mandating tension in any of those zones.
-- Remember when the civil rights of blacks was recognized? They marched them into schools under National Guard oversight ... --
Yeah, government schools.
-- That pic is soon to be the same thing, with Nat'l Guard leading the deviants into our churches. --
That will be then, not now, and not justified or mandated by the illegitimate order SCOTUS handed down today. By today's order, the National Guard would march into the county and town clerk's offices, not the churches.
George Takai said this is just the beginning. Religion is next.
Won’t happen. What’s he going to do, have US Army soldiers occupy Boards of Vital Statistics, and have some brownbar hand out marriage licenses to sodomite couples? Moreover, most military these days come from that part of the country that liberal elites call “Flyoverland” or “Jeebusland.” Who will they side with? Open question. It’s tough to get regular troops to shoot civilians. The Soviets tried it during the Rostov bread riots in 1962 and the soldiers refused! Had to use MVD troops for that. Plus, putting down a state uprising looks bad on the 24 hour news cycle. Messy business. DC, like most bullies, will back down.
Wait until we have another Kent State incident. It will get real ugly, real fast.
I'd say they've been practicing open civil disobedience for a long time. They are supposed to be serving the people.
We the people are the ones who cave and none of us will practice open civil disobedience. We have chosen to obey these traitors and tyrants, because to do otherwise is so very inconvenient, expensive and strenuous.
I’m in...or out.
Some of the government employees will quit or be fired for refusing to issue marriage licenses to homos - the governors won't step in to stop that travesty either.
They are slaves to the state orders - which suits them, because they are hidebound to law and order above everything else.
Oh, for heavens’ sake! Attack our allies. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Nothing in Abbot’s statement was “anti-Christ.” It was pro-1A. Freedom of religion /1A encompasses ALL religion, all expressions of speech and conscience, not just Christians’. In other words, regardless if you’re Jewish, Hindu, etc, or don’t subscribe to any faith at all, you shouldn’t be forced to bake the damn cake if you just don’t wanna. There are lots of folks who aren’t Christians (or aren’t Christian enough, according to you) who nevertheless feel, on a gut level, that sodomy is “icky” and they resent being forced to condone it. Also, many non-Christians worry, as we do, about the pedophile aspect. We should be uniting with them, building coalitions, not attacking them.
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