Democracy died today in the USA: the Supreme Court (#SCOTUS) killed it

Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action ^ | 6 October 2014 | Teófilo de Jesús (@vivificat)

[Teófilo]

Brethren, Peace to you all in Jesus Christ, our Supreme, Merciful Judge.

This is in the news at this time:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit same-sex marriages, paving the way for an immediate expansion of gay and lesbian unions.

The justices on Monday did not comment in rejecting appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The court's order immediately ends delays on marriage in those states. Couples in six other states should be able to get married in short order.

That would make same-sex marriage legal in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

But the justices have left unresolved for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide.

Analysis. The decision by the SCOTUS not to hear the appeals from Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin regarding the right of the states to define and regulate marriage, often inscribed in the states' constitution by popular referendum or by clear legislative majorities, sounds the death knell of the legal recognition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman in the United States. Even though the justices "have left unresolved for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide", we can't expect their future reversal  now that the floodgates have been opened in 30 states. Every law, every constitutional amendment protecting marriage as a marital union between one man and one woman is now fair game across the nation. By the time the SCOTUS even hears a case sorting the powers of the state to regulate and define marriage in accordance to natural law and the wishes of the states' societies, marriage will have been redefined by entrepreneurial jurists in all 50 states and territories. We have lost the war to protect the institution of marriage in this country.

It was just a matter of time. The Supreme Court’s June 26, 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas effectively denied the existence of God’s Eternal Law and natural law, and established its own atheistic and anarchic “morality.” (1) Their decision opened the way for the expansion of rights for people suffering from same-sex attractions in the name of absolute personal authority, and removed the duty of the state to protect and foster natural marriage as it has been understood throughout history. The state is now to be a mere passive recorder of any such "marital" unions entered by one or more consenting adults of either sex, however many, for however long the contracts may last. Ironically, the state retains its right to foster and finance Malthusian policies of birth and population control, including abortion, also in the name of protecting individual rights. It was just a matter of time for the SCOTUS to catch up with all of the consequences of their Lawrence v. Texas decision.

The SCOTUS refusal to hear the appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin represents a death-blow to republican, representative democracy and the power of the people to regulate society and its institution through ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments. SCOTUS has tacitly nullified laws without reason or comment across the whole country. We the People are no longer in charge: unelected jurists, educated in the latest deconstructive, postmodern trends and informed by hundreds of "scientists" whose advice the jurists value uncritically have succeeded in imposing a fiction over and against the will of the people. You might think I exaggerate, that I ignore previous instances in our history when such severe claims were made and "nothing happened." I assure you I'm aware of these instances and stand in what I say: SCOTUS has killed our democratic republican polity, this time through inaction.

Laws formulated over and against natural law are null and void from the moment of  their enactment.(2) People of conscience should not obey them and also should be prepared to face the social and civil consequences of their principled stance. Persecution against people of faith will now increase dramatically: the Democrats will dance for joy and the Republicans, who during the years they were in power confirmed many of the jurists now governing us, and wary of the polls, will look the other way.

The isolation of people of faith and attempts at further excluding them from the civil and political arena will now intensify. We must be prepared for the upcoming persecution as we mourn the death of democracy and the last vestiges of the Nation's adherence to natural law in America today.

Notes.

1. TFP Committe on American Issues, Defending a Higher Law: Why We Must Resist
Same-Sex “Marriage” and the Homosexual Movement, 2004, p.1.

2. "Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these. There are, it is true, a great number of indifferent points, in which both the divine law and the natural leave a man at his own liberty; but which are found necessary for the benefit of society to be restrained within certain limits. And herein it is that human laws have their greatest force and efficacy: for, with regard to such points as are not indifferent, human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to the former. To instance in the case of murder: this is expressly forbidden by the divine, and demonstrably by the natural law; and from these prohibitions arises the true unlawfulness of this crime. Those human laws that annex a punishment to it do not at all increase its moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae (in the court of conscience) to abstatin from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we, are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." -- (William Blackstone, as quoted by Clarence B. Carson in _The American Tradition_, p. 41)

[Know et al]

What happens to the minister, pastor, priest etc that refuses to perform a same sex marriage?

[CivilWarBrewing]

Bingo. Team Eboma has gone to the ends of the Earth to have his NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., drudge up DIRT on Boehner and Roberts.

No doubt these 'two with a tan' have a secret lifestyle and they're being blackmailed to play along or else get taken down.

[stars & stripes forever]

RESULTS OF A CURSED NATION

DEUTERONOMY 28:15-68

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

15 “But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 22 He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you. 30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 34 You will go insane from seeing all this. 35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils—from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. 36 The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there. 37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

The Curse of Reversed Status

38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity. 42 Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil. 43 The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you. 46 These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

The Curse of Military Siege

47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

The Curse of Covenant Termination

58 “If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants—great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. 61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished. 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God. 63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

[Turbo Pig]

The question is, “Is this the type of thing that gets people killed int he long run?” Not meaning that people will target gays and such; rather are people willing to die to preserve the Republic, and roll back the liberalism that threatens it?

That is what it is going to take.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The Republic started to die—with the Civil Rights Act (poorly put into effect) and the death of MLK (who could have turned it around) He was against Affirmative Action. That and LBJ’s War or Poverty and Viet Nam—killed what was left of the Old America. Now the Liberal Philosopy that wrected Europe and South America is strangling America to death. Things will change—in time. At least I hope so?

[Teófilo]

Kyrie eléison. Lord have mercy.

[Hostage]

Please click ‘View Replies’ and ping Art V list over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3211868/posts?page=8#8

[Rashputin]

Democracy has been dead a long, long, time in this country. This just carves a date on the tombstone.

Too bad people couldn't leave little things like how Senators are chosen alone, we had a chance of remaining a Republic right up until the 17th Amendment was passed.

[Arthur McGowan]

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F. Kennedy

Those who make self-government impossible will make violent civil war inevitable.

The judicial oligarchy is in the business of making self-government impossible. As is the entire Left/Muslim Brotherhood alliance, which has placed an illegal alien Muslim terrorist in the White House.

[Arthur McGowan]

I don’t agree with that proposed amendment. The idea of the legislatures of all the states making a judicial decision!

There has always existed a mechanism to “override” abusive USSC decisions: The Congress can remove certain matters from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. By simple majority vote.

Here’s proof of the uselessness of the Republican Party: During all the recent years in which the GOP held the WH and both houses of Congress, they never considered removing abortion from the jurisdiction of the USSC.

[Teófilo]

I agree with your first three statements and half of the fourth...:-)

I’m no “birther”.

I disagree with Barack Obama profoundly on almost every issue. But my disagreement is philosophical, legal, and religious in the sense of the (bad) religious principles he has brought to bear on policy-making. I’m pretty convinced he’s no Muslim, he’s just a bad Christian. Nor do I question Obama’s US citizenship. I think that believing Mr. Obama is not an American is not only wrong on the facts, but also bad form.

My thoughts anyway. Let’s you and I be both happy on the many things we agree on and move on those we don’t.

~Theo

[Jacquerie]

Article V ping!

WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE SOVEREIGN.

When Federal Courts assume power to rewrite state constitutions to require homo marriage, what further outrage is necessary? There is nothing to lose and everything to gain with an Article V convention to propose amendments.

[Arthur McGowan]

“Bad form”?

That’s incomprehensible.

If he’s an American citizen, why is his “birth certificate” a crude forgery, typed on twelve different typewriters, etc.?

Or is it “bad form” to ask?

The importance of the fact that “Obama” (a citizen of Indonesia whose legal name is “Barry Soetoro”) was put in place by a large criminal enterprise, the Democrat party. Pretending that “Obama” is a citizen means that the Democrat party will never be dismantled and brought to justice for its crimes.

[Pollster1]

The justices on Monday did not comment in rejecting appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin have one more option. They can refuse to perform any new marriages and refuse to recognize marriages after this date. It's a nuclear option and probably not going to happen or help, but it would certainly express the appropriate level of displeasure with those who demand that others recognize this modern farce as if it was a real marriage.

Note: I'm not recommending it, just pointing out an interesting option.

[lastchance]

You need to go back to Griswold to find the roots of same sex marriage laws as well as the argument that States have no interest to promote the moral behavior of its citizens.

[lastchance]

There’ll be camps soon for them as well as crippling fines.

[Know et al]

I'm afraid you are correct. That is the way these people work.

[Teófilo]

What’s the citation?

[Teófilo]

I’m sorry, but I simply disagree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evididence and I haven’t seen any. I’ll stick to policy and philosophical differences, thank you.

~Theo

[foreverfree]

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