Say what!? Gay marriage is going to be served up, front and center.
June 28, 2015 NYT: The Next Fight for Gay Rights: Bias in Jobs and Housing ~~Exhilarated by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, gay rights leaders have turned their sights to what they see as the next big battle: obtaining federal, state and local legal protections in employment, housing, commerce and other arenas, just like those barring discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin.~~
June 28, 2015 Washington Post: Backers of gay rights pursue protections beyond marriage ~~Fresh off their legal victory, they hope to target discrimination in housing, financial dealings, employment and other areas.~~
Not only that, it would damage the playing field for all the Republican candidates because Walker has now opened the door as never before on the gay marriage issue in the debates. ....
June 27, 2015 Breitbart: Penny Nance: Scott Walker’s Push for Marriage Constitutional Amendment Exactly Right
~~Penny Nance, the CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, is praising Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s push for a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court rulings that same-sex marriage is constitutional.~~
“Scott Walker said it right in underscoring two points:1) the only hope the states have of reversing this ruling is a Constitutional Amendment 2) increased conscience protections are all that stands between people of faith and job loss and discrimination,” Nance said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News.
Walker, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling released on Friday, called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
“As a result of this decision, the only alternative left for the American people is to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reaffirm the ability of the states to continue to define marriage,” Walker said.
Earlier this month, on ABC’s This Week, Walker endorsed a Constitutional amendment on marriage.
“I personally believe that marriage is between one man and one woman,” Walker said in the interview in early June. Walker said that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage nationwide, “the only next approach… for those who are supporters of marriage being defined as between one man and one woman is, ultimately, to consider pursuing a constitutional amendment.”....
Once the public sees what this rabid dog does, they will beg for a way to put it back in the kennel. This support has been ginned up in relative ignorance.
The majority of which have never read let alone tried to understand the Constitution. And I'm sure a good minority is functionally illiterate.
Like 17-year cicadas, the noise that they make is much greater than their actual significance.
Libs have been saying this for a while.
This early we can't know where the battle lines will be re-drawn on this issue.
I am glad that (for them) many of my relatives didn't live to see this day.
The situation with the Nebraska religious freedom bill was not encouraging.
They throw around these poll numbers without the first bit of attribution and and we're supposed to consider them authoritative and meaningful.
"63% in a recent poll.." "according to sources..." "the experts say..." all lead me to disregard all the evidence-free crap that follows up leftist journalism school canards.
Constitutional amendments have become just a way to pretend to do something without actually doing anything. Congress has the power under Article III to limit the court’s jurisdiction in any appeals. They could pass a law requiring all federal courts to get congressional approval before ruling on the constitutionality of any law if they chose to, and include criminal penalties for any judge who tried to do so. They would need both houses and the presidency, or a veto proof majority, but that’s still a lower bar than an amendment.
Walker understands that SCOTUS just screwed the American people and is proposing a correction. Who is Roger Simon and why does he think we the are so stupid as to listen to his sorry behind?
Pretty much sorted out - Cruz and Walker (or Walker and Cruz, as you may have it) are the only two with their socks packed tight.
I’d like to see what the results of gay marriage would be in the voting booth. Let each state vote and then people can decide what society they want to live in.
“You don’t have to know the rules of bridge to know that nuclear war trumps gay marriage any time.”
A country that would accept gay marriage deserves to be nuked.
Romney lurks and laughs.
The issues of the last week and the growing list of candidates only make it more likely that Mitt will enter the race late and win.
Then in 2016 lose.
Never count Romney’s ego and sense of destiny out.
Everything is going just right for him in the primary.
Scott Walker flip flopped yet again:
(1) Same Sex Marriage
(2) Ethanol
(3) Amnesty
(4) Common Core
(5) Abortion
(6) Auto Bailouts
From Milwaukee Sentinel - October 6, 2014
Asked if the U.S. Constitution should be amended to ban same-sex marriage, Walker downplayed the notion, saying, “I think it’s resolved.”
“For us, it’s over in Wisconsin,” Walker said of the fight over gay marriage. “Others will have to talk about the federal level.”
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/278252541.html
Did Roe v. Wade take abortion ‘off the table?’
That’s a very long road, but it’s a good start.
Combined with Ted Cruz’s idea to make SCOTUS accountable to the people through the ballot box as judges are around the country, this disastrous week for American jurisprudence may someday be just a bad memory. I hope I live to see it.
Roger Simon on Scott Walker on Constitutional marriage.
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Taking something off the table, as they call it, just means leaving it right in the middle of the table for democrat fascists to talk about with Republicans saying, "we're not here to talk about the centerpiece on the table . . . " when in fact that's exactly what the democrats are beating them to death with.
And make no mistake, every single failed, expensive, corrupt, program the democrat fascists have put in place in the past 70 years has been sold as a social issue first with everything else a secondary consideration and Republicans left looking like dolts for talking about it indirectly or changing the subject.
JMHo
Or we could just become moral cowards and vote for moral cowards like the author suggests.
The only way gay rights issues or Obamacare have ever been allowed to continue is through the corrupted judicial system. Look at the history. I don’t remember the details; but there was a case in Tarrant County, TX that started the path for gays years ago. It was trickery at its best. Of course, we all know how Roberts rewrote Obamacare.