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Posted on 05/14/2016 7:08:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Obama is hoping to provoke war here in the US, open armed revolt IMHO.
One that has not yet been tried has not worked?
States are not yet so uniform.
The USA has lost its way. . . . .however, there is hope. . .in Jesus. http://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/
I wonder if the social justice freaks will even give anyone that sad option at this point. They might actually fight for men in the women’s bathrooms, certainly they aren’t screaming for unisex singles. They want to use whatever space is appropriate for what they claim to be.
Freegards
That’s the King that the Founding Fathers looked to. His question as to whether He will find faith on the earth during times like this seems to have found a resounding answer in the negative under this administration, though.
To give you an idea where I’m coming from, I’m a Nevadan. We have no state income tax, you can still smoke in our bars, our biscuits and gravy still don’t have to carry a health warning, We gamble, we even have legal houses of prostitution. Our legislature fears the people, alwys has. If a “convention of states” was convened to make all us states, I guess, get along and cooperate and stuff, can you IMAGINE what the “blue states” would do to us?
Better to get the federal government off the back of ALL of the states, and let EVERY state do what its PEOPLE want.
No, that is not what Article V is about.
Just occurred to me how many millions of voters Obama-nation is driving to vote for Trump.
You don’t get it. Any “convention of states” is going to result in overbearing delegates from one state lording their views over delegates from other states. It’s just the kind of thing that happens when people gather anywhere for anything. Unfortunately, it’s just what people do. It would be a madhouse.
Just get the federal government off the backs of the states. That will improve this country 100%.
I’m not sure what homosexuals gain by forcing women to shower with men ... except the end of modesty.
Well, somebody is going to get their rocks off when the folks that don’t buy this crap get punished, right?
Freegards
Concrete: more soundproof.
Where did you get that interpretation from?
It takes two-thirds of the states to bring a convention about, not all fifty, and IIRC, none of those that have sought it thus far are blue. I see nothing in Article V’s wording with respect to “delegates”, but I do see the involvement of state legislatures in the process.
Patriots, please bear in mind that Congress, not the Obama Administration, is the main problem concerning the threat of the loss of “federal” funding for INTRAstate schools who refuse to comply with the lawless Obama Administration’s unconstitutional, politically correct (PC) transgender restroom edict.
More specifically, one major constitutional problem with threatening the loss of funds concerning this LGBT issue is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in broad language that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the same of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, regulating, taxing and spending for intrastate schooling not among those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, the House should never have originated appropriations bills (1.7.1) for INTRAstate schooling purposes, and the post-17th Amendment ratification Senate should never have passed such bills.
So the loss of “federal” funding that the state sovereignty-ignoring Congress is letting the Obama Administration get away with threatening schools that don’t comply with its PC, transgender-related edict is arguably state revenues that Congress stole from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
Another major constitutional problem with this LGBT issue is the following. The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT “rights.” So Congress is also wrongly letting the Obama Administration get away with interfering with 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty concerning PC LGBT "rights."
Consider that low-information, last-term Obama is one of Congress’s many “useful idiots” in the corrupt federal government imo. (Patriots need to reconsider the 22nd Amendment.)
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, deciding policy for intrastate transgender restrooms in this example.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire pro-LGBT, state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Sigh. I’ve said all I care to. Have a good convention.
Well, with all due respect, you’re promulgating the notion that blue state dominance is built in to such a convention. If you can demonstrate that by the construction of same, please do, but it would be different from the notion of subverting the convention by extra-Constitutional means. As things stand, the left fears conformity to the Constitutional limits of same.
Either your Brains or your Signature will be on that Contract.
The Godfather, it’s the Magic 8 Ball of Movies.
+1
By focusing on men in the women’s room, I think you and many others are missing the argument that will really resonate: schools
Obamas order doesn’t apply to, say, the local Applebee’s. It applies to the local high school, the junior high school too. Any boy who wants to see naked girls can now utter the phrase “I identify as a girl”. And use the same bathrooms, the same showers as the girls. The same crowd that brought you the idea of “rape culture” now has given the keys to the girls locker room the horniest most raunchy kid in school.
Think about it. Across America, every girl in every school must now be ready to share a bathroom with the horniest boys in the school. This has no choice but to end badly. We live in an era where a preteen hugs his classmate and is branded a sexual predator. But now we want them showering together?
This is sheer lunacy and it proves the Left isn’t interested in protecting women, girls or anyone really. They just need another wedge issue. Ugh, I hate them so much.
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