[C. Edmund Wright]

Actually, the libertarian position...proper libertarian position....woud be to protect the rights of those who are already under the contract of marriage...and to uphold what THAT contract means.

And BTW, there is no such thing as SIMPLY ECONOMIC liberty. If you don’t own your property, you don’t own yourself. It’s called the “sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb.”

[Agamemnon]

Congress could always re-assert its authority to pass laws such as DOMA with as broad a support as it achieved and pass a law that restricts the court's right to rule on matters pertaining to marriage.

The Ninth Circuit could rule any way it wanted but since it's purview in such matters is clipped by Congress in this example, CA's Prop 8 can survive as it was voted buy the people. Period.

Would render the Court's opinion effectively moot and inoperative.

Now, the Executive could always choose not to enforce the law and the Congress could always then choose to impeach Holder and add that to his contempt of Congress charge from F&F -- as well as his boss Obama.

The Court doesn't have to be the last word on anything if we don't let it.

This is what CAN be done, not necessarily a prediction of what WILL be done.

FReegards!

[John Leland 1789]

"Actually, the libertarian position...proper libertarian position....woud be to protect the rights of those who are already under the contract of marriage...and to uphold what THAT contract means.

"And BTW, there is no such thing as SIMPLY ECONOMIC liberty. If you don’t own your property, you don’t own yourself. It’s called the “sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb.”

I agree with you, but I am referring to the fact that many on FR are so focused on economics, and seem to not believe that the issues of morality in our nation have any real bearing on our survivability as a nation.

[darrellmaurina]

15 posted on 3/28/2013 10:39:48 AM by C. Edmund Wright: “Actually, the libertarian position...proper libertarian position....woud be to protect the rights of those who are already under the contract of marriage...and to uphold what THAT contract means. And BTW, there is no such thing as SIMPLY ECONOMIC liberty. If you don’t own your property, you don’t own yourself. It’s called the “sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb.””

If more libertarians sounded like you I'd have a lot fewer problems with that position.

There is a wing of the Republican Party which seems bound and determined to act like Democrats when it comes to personal morality but still advocate for economic conservative positions. I don't care whether we call them libertarians, RINOs, or “capitalists advocating immorality,” but whatever we call them, they need to be stopped.