Posted on 06/27/2015 3:17:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said he “strongly disagreed” with the Supreme Court's decision Friday to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide but acknowledged it is “now the law of the land.”
“I call on Congress to make sure deeply held religious views are respected and protected,” Carson said in a statement issued following the court's historic ruling. “The government must never force Christians to violate their religious beliefs.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called the ruling “irrational” and “unconstitutional.”
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who launched his presidential campaign on Wednesday, said the decision would “pave the way for an all out assault against the religious freedom rights of Christians who disagree with this decision.”
GOP front-runner, former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.), meanwhile, had a more tempered reaction, saying only that he believes “the Supreme Court should have allowed the states to make this decision.”
At one time, Mr. Carson, slavery was "the law of the land".
And this particular ruling deserves about as much respect as the Dred Scott decision.
So was Jim Crowe and Prohibition!
The Supreme Court is wrong, as they were with Dred Scott, Plessy, Roe, and both Obamacare decisions. We cannot accept unconstitutional rulings simply on the basis that big government liberals (and all of those were Democrat positions) contrived to force them through.
Good, decent Americans never accepted Dred Scott or Plessy, and we eventually triumphed. Good, decent Americans will never accept Obamacare or gay “marriage”, and we will eventually triumph, God willing.
There is a difference between what the court says and what the people will say. I do believe that there will be a whole lot of civil disobedience coming around.
“If ever there was a time that God needed to be reminded he would never flood the earth again, it is now.”
The flamboyant actions of the Supreme Court will not stand. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious how He is going to destroy the wicked.
The Republican Party establishment does not want to hear the words “gay marriage” during next years election campaign, this is behind them as far as they are concerned.
So was Slavery you constitutionally-challenged NOT-READY for prime-time sell-out of a POTUS candidate!
A strong moral argument can be made that representatives of the northern and southern colonies were wrong to write the peculiar institution into the United States Constitution. It's harder to argue the Supreme Court should have ignored, or rewritten the Constitution, to rule in favor of Dred Scott. It is the responsibility of Congress and the states to right wrongs through the amendment process which they did in 1865.
It would have been better (my opinion)to have adopted the amendment peacfully without a total war costing 600,000 dead.
I did not claim that Trump said anything about the lates Supreme Court ruling. I asserted that a major reason for Trump's support is that he is seen as a fighter. You need meds.
Eff "the law of the land".
I don't want to hear anyone's little fantasies about "America the Great" and "equality before law", any more.
D’sousa sort of proved it.
There’s only one way to deal with them.
The “all-wise” SCOTUS once upheld forced sterilization as constitutional (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell).
I won’t bet anything bc I think he’ll support the ruling just like you think he will.
I will reassert my opinion however. Trump is doing as well as he is because people want a fighter.
In many situations, the law of the state/territory in which an event occurs governs a case. In the Dred Scott case, the court ruled that Missouri law governed the case and that the Scotts remained slaves. It could more reasonably be argued that Illinois law or Wisconsin law should have applied because Dred Scott should under federal law have automatically been freed during his extended residence in a free state/territory. This is not a case where I am arguing for ignoring the Constitution and freeing all slaves because slavery is wrong.
Exactly, and the Congress had nothing to do with it.
In Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS found a right to “privacy” hidden in the Constitution but it didn’t stop the NSA from collecting our phone records. This time it has found a right to “dignity”. I’ll try to remember that the next time I’m being groped by some TSA thug when I’m flying to see my grandkids.
“I asserted that a major reason for Trump’s support is that he is seen as a fighter”
maybe. maybe not. thats your opinion.
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