Posted on 07/01/2015 8:45:25 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sen. Jeff Sessions said today that Alabama will "ultimately have to follow the law" on the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, even though he strongly disagrees with it.
Sessions was asked about the resistance by some judicial officials in Alabama to granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the court's 5-4 ruling that state bans on gay marriage violate the Constitution.
Sessions did not say specifically how officials in Alabama should proceed.
"Ultimately they'll have to follow the law," the senator said. "The question of what that means and exactly what that requires them to do, I guess they'll have to decide for themselves and seek their own legal counsel."
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When did we repeal the 10th amendment?
Instead of supporting homo marriage by acknowledging it, go around it! Shun it!
Make marriage a federal issue and Holy Matrimony a church issue. End of debate! The homos get their filthy federal papers, and the Christians can still be united in the eyes of God.
Dumbass Republicans FAIL again. Yet they still expect normal, heteroperfect human beings to vote FOR them after they bend over with their pants down to the Luciferions !!
Screw that. Let God sort it out. If a Republican wants my vote, they're going to have to EARN it!
Ditto. And after the last couple decades, that ain't going to be easy.
Sessions is right.
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No. Sessions is wrong. And so are you.
No, they don’t.
Whadeygonna do? Send in the Army/Air Force/Marines??
With all due respect to Senator Sessions, he evidently doesn’t understand the intent or the limits of the 14th Amendment (14A) as constitutional lawmakers had intended for it to be understood where gay “marriage” is concerned. So he is another good example why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.
Note that since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage that activist justices actually had no enumerated gay marriage protections to apply to the states as required by 14A.
Activist justices did the same thing when they legalized non-enumerated “right” to have an abortion from the bench imo.
But what’s worse, activist justices who pervert the Constitution or citizens who don’t read the Constitution so that they are clueless when justices are lying to them about what the Constitution says?
I disagree. This decision was make or break. It has now broke to a moral-less abyss.
What is he supposed to do? Like it or not, this is the law, and he and others signed up and swore to uphold it. If they don’t like it and won’t uphold it, they should resign.
Of course, I could say the same for Bammy.
The best we can do at this point is to prevent Christian churches from being destroyed in a series of big money civil lawsuits, and to recommit to the mission of spreading the Word of God (which we have gotten sidetracked from). He is in charge, and as clear as His teachings are on this subject, so is His direction. We just need to follow Him and stop confusing civil law with God’s will.
I do think that pastors and priests should be able to refuse to sign off on performing ceremonies where they have to sign court documents like marriage licenses. Let the court officials do that, keep it seperate from Church business.
The Constitution is the law. The decision of the Supreme Court is a ruling.
We have so few voices - and it appears just lost one. These guys have been doing politics for so many years, what is it the newbie president brought that has changed?
Don’t go wobbly now, Jeff.
Ditto. And after the last couple decades, that ain't going to be easy.
Yep. It's time for them to actually DO something FOR the American people.
They have till November.
Hey, Jeff—Only chumps follow the law anymore.
Just look at how they're breaking all the the immigration laws - and the judicial activists on the Supreme Court are fine with it.In fact, they're protecting their "right to vote."
The Supreme Court has the power to make decisions, and the Supreme Court also has the power to go back and vacate decisions. The thing to do is to stay true and not let yourself get knocked over by the capricious decision-making of others.
Libertarians, did you honestly believe the nation would have its Village People moment in a vacuum that would assure everyone else’s rights would be observed because, what? Hope, good wishes, and fairy dust?
Give a generous helping of that blame to no-fault divorce.
Sessions is right to the extent of the ruling. Alabama must follow the law UNLESS they invoke their 10th Amendment rights and make a stand. This is a good chance to push the nullification issue! Invoke the states right to nullify any Federal Law/Rule that goes against the wishes of the majority of the State.
That is why Sessions said it the way he did "They'll have to decide for themselves" -- take it lying down or fight for States Rights.
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