Posted on 11/18/2022 7:52:34 PM PST by bitt
merica is about to learn that what liberals actually mean when they claim to support “separation of church and state” is they want to use the power of government to silence those who disagree with them on same-sex marriage.
For years, liberals have perverted the meaning of Thomas Jefferson’s “absolute wall of separation” for keeping the state out of the church to keeping those in the church who uphold the Bible’s definition of marriage out of the public square.
The occasion for this teachable moment is the “Respect for Marriage Act” now before the Senate. Democrats claim the proposal is required to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide, even though the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015 did precisely that.
The House passed a similar bill last summer, so there are some differences between the two chambers’ versions that will have to be ironed out, but that will happen quickly and President Joe Biden will sign the measure into the law.
A dozen Republican senators voted with all of the Democrats to advance the proposal. Had this dozen GOP lawmakers voted against advancing the bill, it would still be tied up in the Senate, with an excellent chance of not going any further before the 118th Congress convenes. There’s no guarantee, however, that the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives would block the proposal.
There are two elements here that command attention. The first element is seen in a Washington Post news analysis by staff writer Aaron Blake that reveals one of the most important and fundamental divides in American politics.
The same-sex marriage bill, according to Blake, asks lawmakers “to codify state and federal recognition of a right that the Supreme Court has ruled already exists.” In other words, the rights of every individual American citizen are defined by law, as
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I think the national mood today is getting similar to what it was during Bleeding Kansas. I could be wrong, I’ve been known to be.
We have to start ballot harvesting like the Dems do. Time to beat them at their own game.
If that doesn’t work, well, then it’s the 2A solution and God help us all.
Ah, no Madame I didn’t but forgive me I’m not sure what you mean.
With the proposed bill, Congress establishes a religion that rejects the Bible, bans free speech, and dictates association; all, aimed at destroying the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights that have stood in the way of the liberals’ grasping for power.
nICE QUOTE!
In Heaven, the fella that invented the CAPS LOCK key will be MISSING!!
The tares and wheat have always lived together.
The works can come along after the repenting.
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