Posted on 06/19/2013 8:30:23 PM PDT by ReformationFan
A hallmark of democratic self-government is that the people should discuss, debate, and vote on important policy matters. And in America their votes should count, except when they clearly violate the people’s more settled will as expressed in the U.S. Constitution. Where the Constitution is silent, the task of a conscientious judge is to respect the constitutional authority of citizens and their elected officials.
That’s what’s at stake in the two marriage cases on which the Supreme Court is expected to rule within the next week or so.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Conservatives stand alone on marriage, at some point on this thread the libertarians will show up to argue that they are not for accepting gay marriage and polygamy, but....... and they will argue for accepting it until the cows come home, all while swearing that they aren’t arguing for accepting it at all.
Homosexuals desire their own extinction and Muslims are more than willing to give it to them...
Broken clocks are right twice a day...
National Review can just go to hell for all I care, it has been taken over by the gays and the LIBERAL-tarians.
ARGH!
NO! Where the Constitution is silent, the task of a 'conscientious judge' is to BUTT OUT!
Without specific enumeration of authority, the government has no jurisdiction...period.
Sad to see that the effort and angst the Founders went through to painstakingly write down the authority of government and then seal it with a few, specific, carefully worded acts were all for naught!
NOWHERE...and I mean NOWHERE in either the US Constitution or the Judiciary Act of 1789 is the jurisdiction given to the US Supreme Court to sit in judgment of a single State OR a State and one of its own citizens.
But trying to convince the progs (and no few conservatives) that the Founders didn't design the federal government to run the whole country is proving to be futile.
/rant
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