"It cannot ... be taken to have settled the law of the United States," said the statement from the American Principles Project.
"We call on all federal and state officeholders: To refuse to accept Obergefell as binding precedent for all but the specific plaintiffs in that case. To recognize the authority of states to define marriage, and the right of federal and state officeholders to act in accordance with those definitions. To pledge full and mutual legal and political assistance to anyone who refuses to follow Obergefell for constitutionally protected reasons. To open forthwith a broad and honest conversation on the means by which Americans may constitutionally resist and overturn the judicial usurpations evidence in Obergefell."
Well at least one state forgot to chop off their sack.
I love Roy Moore. If the Republicans give me a candidate I cannot support, I am writing in Roy Moore for President.
WONDERFUL!!
The feds have NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to meddle with marriage. Marriage is an individual and state issue.
States: NULLIFY THE TYRANNY OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL ACTS AND DECISIONS.
Roy Moore’s order actually affirms both a prior decision by the State Supreme Court and Alabama State Law... it is not an ad hoc order, though is being portrayed in that manner by other media.
In other words, he is declaring that the existing law should be followed... as opposed to the actions of other courts or Obama, which have been creating law out of thin air.
May this sanity spread to many other states.
States’ rights. Again, and it’s the South.
Again.
Good for him. Every state should have done this. It is none of the FedGov's business how states recognize marriage.
Good on Roy Moore.
If the SCOTUS makes an unconstitutional decision, the states and the people are not obligated to obey it.
Note to self:
Research banjo prices and cost of shipping self’s knees to Alabama.
Let’s bring this issue and the 2nd amendment to a head. As our brethren in Oregon are doing re: government land grabs....we must stick together.
The fakir in the White Hut is attempting to destroy America by destroying the constitution. Time to double down.
Well, it’s about time someone asserted state sovereignty over this Federal tyranny. Our milquetoast Governor and panty-waist AG sure aren’t going to do so.
Marriage has always been a state issue, never a federal one. I’d like to see this work its way through the courts to decide that once and for all. And if at the end the Supreme Court rules against Alabama then the states should drop the whole marriage license thing altogether and let the feds issue them.
Given that Kansas State doesn't have a law school, I'm pretty sure there aren't any top legal scholars there.
Gotta love Judge Moore.
At the very least states should not be issuing marriage licenses to anyone. Each state has a legal definition of whom can marry. If it states “one man one woman” (almost all) the SC only declared it null-and-void, leaving the state with no law. They all need to pass new laws defining marriage.
...so basically, we’ll need to have the discussion as to why two brothers can’t marry. If they can, then it would be “discriminatory” to not allow a brother/sister.
See where this goes? We MUST define what marriage is and decide why. The SC ruling doesn’t do this. If it means SOMETHING it must, therefore, be DISCRIMINATING against some configuration (polygamy, etc.). This process would expose the lie that it is about “two people that love each other”.
In order to object, do we need to show a single person who has been “injured” by the ruling? How does one show damage in the incidence where they are not “involved?”
I am serious in my question.
And how can the Feds intervene when there is no “law” to enforce? The courts made this whole thing up...what is there to enforce?
Ifthe US Supreme Court ruled for homsexual marriages, let the US Supreme Court issue the licenses. If they won’t, it’s an admission they have no jurisdiction.
He came to speak at our church a few years back, before he re-ran for his office. Justice Moore is a good, Christian man.