Posted on 08/26/2015 6:38:59 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
Irrelevant, since it won’t pass.
Only way we get rid of it is to change the composition of the court so they overturn the previous decision.
Unless it was proposed at an amendments convention of states, in which both houses of Congress would be eeked out of the equation.
Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, and Rick SantorumThe three candidates refusing to sign the pledge are:
Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker
Amending the constitution is the WRONG APPROACH !
The constitution is an organizational document not a programmatic one.
The only time it was used as programatic was Prohibition...and it was an abysmal failure. Just as this anti-gay marriage business is.
The place for this is in the legislature to enact LAWS. The SCOTUS has no place in ruling on the entitlement of such things as marriage to homosexuals. The legislature of any state can eneact legislation regarding who is married and who is not and under what circumstances that takes place.
This is not an issue about freedom but is being used as a battering ram AGAINST freedom. They dipshit Kennedy fell for it like the dope he is.
Of course, Linda Graham won’t sign it. Gee, I wonder why!
Yep. Remove the gay SC judges and you might have a chance at overturning it.
Mike Huckabee is for it whether he would sign the pledge or not. I am not even worried about him. Go see his website. Ben Carson is questionable, though I am glad he seems to now support it. He has supported civil unions in the past, which is simply gay marriage by another name. He also had a bad statement a few weeks ago. So I do not know what to think. I would be very happy to learn he changed his mind.
Walker has been wishy-washy from the beginning. Jindal and Santorum are great candidates and I hope the increase their support.
You didn’t win. Carson signed it. I am shocked. Huckabee refused. I am more shocked, though his reason was that he never signs any pledges of any sort. Still.... I do not worry about him on that issue.
You are right about the rest of the signers. Non signers were Graham, Walker, Huckabee.
I say we go the shock and awe route. That means we do everything possible over and over until we win.
Well, Ginsberg and Kennedy are old, the next President will probably choose their replacements.
But there’s another way, add new seats to the court. Why da heck not? Only reason I can think of is it would give rats the license to do the same when their next in power and we might end up with 50 justices, and you’d have use the nuclear option to pass it through the Senate, assuming you could even get a bare majority of those mummies to support it.
It’s ridiculous to sign any pledge. No matter how much you are for or against the topic, the msm will spin it back on you. Never, ever get pulled into that little game.
Cruz did say it was a states rights issue. The common law has never been meant to approve same-sex marriage. It is appropriate support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Then is would be a federal issue.
Cruz is trying to do whatever it takes to bring sanity back to natural marriage.
8 don’t think that is sanity. His argument means he is okay with hay marriage in all 50 states, he just didn’t like the process.
Take 5 seconds to proofread your idiocy, please.
That’s not what Cruz said, at all.
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