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Kagan Refuses to Answer Whether Marriage is a State Issue
Human Events ^ | 06/30/2010 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 06/30/2010 1:34:04 PM PDT by opentalk

Kagan just said she wouldn't answer whether marriage was a state issue ... wait for it ... because there's a case coming down the pike. This is a load of horsepucky. It is perfectly legitimate to answer whether the federal constitution mandates man-horse marriage, even if Mr. Ed's human lover is filing a case.

Then she said she wasn't going to use the 1972 case of Baker v. Nelson as precedential value -- a case that stated that the question of marriage was not a federal question under the Constitution -- and she followed that whopper up by saying "there is a question about the precedential weight to be given to summary disposition ... what most people think is that these summary dispositions get some precedential weight, but they don't get the full weight."

Unreal. Grassley rightly asked her if the 14th Amendment has suddenly changed since 1972. She doesn't answer, and just says she thinks she might want to hear argument.

In other words, she's pro-gay marriage mandated by the Constitution.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; kagan; marriage; moralabsolutes; no; notqualified; unamerican
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To: kbennkc
yea you're right, the woman next door wants to marry her son and the guy I met the other day wants to marry, have sex with his 5 years old girl. ARF NAH no business at all, let anything marry , that is what you and Ron paul wants right?
21 posted on 07/01/2010 5:45:56 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: little jeremiah

these libertarians(why on this site is beyond me) think anything marry, thinks it is no one business, , well except their employer, housing, rents, o and that little thing of marrying daughters, sons, dog,s and pigs


22 posted on 07/01/2010 5:48:23 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: manc
Too bad nobody in Senate or the Peoples house, except maybe crazy old Ron Paul knows the right answer . Marriage is none of any government's business, Fed, State or local at all .

yea you're right, the woman next door wants to marry her son and the guy I met the other day wants to marry, have sex with his 5 years old girl. ARF NAH no business at all, let anything marry , that is what you and Ron paul wants right?

I don't think your neighbors or the people you meet there are a good influence on you. I hope you get well enough to get out of the nervous hospital soon. Do you find Freeping makes you better or worse ?

23 posted on 07/01/2010 7:04:01 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: kbennkc
surely I never thought I would have had to put sarc on that
24 posted on 07/01/2010 8:52:50 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: manc
surely I never thought I would have had to put sarc on that

In that case, please remember what "I" would look like if I were only crazy and not stupid too.

25 posted on 07/01/2010 9:22:43 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: kbennkc

mmmm OK


26 posted on 07/01/2010 9:35:03 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: little jeremiah

Yes indeed. See Jennifer Roback Morse’s elucidation of
the implications “The Case of The Incurious Economists”


27 posted on 07/08/2010 5:49:00 AM PDT by cycjec
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To: kbennkc
Too bad nobody in Senate or the Peoples house, except maybe crazy old Ron Paul knows the right answer . Marriage is none of any government's business, Fed, State or local at all .

Hogwash. The ultimate stated purpose of our Constitution is to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity." The natural family is the fundamental institution God designed to be the nursery of that posterity.

Four States were allowed into the Union only on the condition that they forever swear off plural marriage.

Do you want to expel Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah and Idaho from the Union on the basis of your revolutionary idea that government has no interest in the institution of marriage as the guarantor of its future survival and prosperity?

Or, do you think it's okay if particular States reinstitute polygamy?

28 posted on 07/08/2010 6:01:38 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I do not need the government's permission and nor would I would impose that requirement on others. There is nothing Constitutional or conservative about imposing something God designed upon others.

I have a hard enough time believing states should require a license to fish in waters open to the public. I do not see room for government in my relationship with God nor in procreation.

29 posted on 07/08/2010 6:44:21 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: kbennkc

It ain’t all about you. What you do affects everyone else.


30 posted on 07/08/2010 8:43:26 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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To: kbennkc
There is nothing Constitutional or conservative about imposing something God designed upon others.

There is no imposition, except by God Himself. It's the way He made things. (In America we call that the Natural Law, which we hold to be "self-evident," or "as obvious as the nose on your face.") You can rail against it or deny it, but you can't change it.

And human "laws" that go against the Natural Law are stupid. They don't work, because they deny the facts about human nature and the way the universe is put together.

Conversely, human laws that accord with the Natural Law work, and help bring about a freer, more decent, more secure, and more prosperous society and nation.

31 posted on 07/08/2010 8:51:27 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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To: EternalVigilance
It ain’t all about you. What you do affects everyone else.

That's reminds me of why I divorced you.

32 posted on 07/08/2010 10:15:48 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: kbennkc

Not that funny.

But it is you who has divorced yourself from America’s cornerstone principles concerning liberty and its basis in morality and the duty to protect the God-given, unalienable rights of all.


33 posted on 07/08/2010 10:42:44 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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