Posted on 07/28/2014 11:21:44 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
WASHINGTON — The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday that Virginia’s ban on same-sex couples’ marriages is unconstitutional. On a 2-1 vote, the appeals court joined the wave of court decisions declaring such bans unconstitutional. The decision, by Judge Henry Floyd acknowledged both the debate over such laws and, in the court’s view, the clear constitutional impediment to laws banning same-sex couples from marrying.
“We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable,” he wrote. “However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws.”
The court’s opinion is not effective immediately. According to the court’s judgment in the case, the judgment will take effect after the mandate is issued in the case. The mandate, under the court’s rules, will be issued “7 days after expiration of the time to file a petition for rehearing expires, or 7 days after entry of an order denying a timely petition for panel rehearing, rehearing en banc, or motion for stay of mandate, whichever is later.”
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The common, sorry ass DEMOCRAT Attorney General of North Carolina by the name of Roy Cooper now says as a result of this ruling he will not defend real marriage in court. This is the same weasel POS that has said for years he would defend the law as long as he was state AG. Roy Obama Cooper also wants to run for governor. He can kiss that goodbye. Two short years ago North Carolina VOTED an amendment into the State Constitution saying marriage is one man and one woman. So a word to anyone that lives in a state with a democrat sitting in the Attoney General office. It’s a matter of time because the worthless bastard says he will not defend marriage in the state if it does not allow queers to get “married”. They all have marching orders from Eric Holder.
Unless he nullifies the 4th Circuit, every AG located within the Circuit (including NC) is bound to obey its rulings. I’ll note that the Court has stayed its ruling, albeit only temporarily.
One more reason I didn’t support the guy. He didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. Sadly, his advisers were many times worse than that too.
When it came to judges, he was a clueless wonder...
He also gave us “It’s a new tax...” Roberts.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
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2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
Genesis 1
English Standard Version (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
“every AG located within the Circuit (including NC) is bound to obey its rulings”
Then he needs to show some balls and nullify the ruling. He works for the People of NC, and no one else.
Obama has given orders to Holder, who has in-turn given orders to democrat state attorney generals. When a federal judge rules against the will of the people, the spineless democrat is to side with the activist judge. It makes no difference what the people want. King Obamagabe will get what he wants; sodomite “marriage” in the majority of all the states before the case even gets to the Supreme Court. Then they will rubber stamp it. Next will be homosexuals suing suing churches that will not “marry” them. We are quickly becoming the United States of Sodom and Gomorrah.
It’s not your country anymore. Let them have it and burn it down.
The ridiculous part of this is that these courts have invented a legal entity, the “couple,” which has its own rights, despite not having been defined in law.
False. The Oath of Office for the North Carolina Attorney General requires the holder of the office to obey federal laws before state laws. When the 4th Circuit orders you to do something, you do it, unless you can get a stay from the US Supreme Court.
"I, _______________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of my office as Attorney General, so help me God."
these kind of two judges don’t go by the constitution , but instead are driven by politics.
If they ever get their sham in all states I know this family will never accept them , nor would they ever be looked at as married , but instead two lost mentally challenged people who need mental help.
exactly what I said
I agree. They can say that a duck is a dog, but everyone knows it isn’t so. The emperor has no clothes.
Just what part of the Constitution discuses sodomy?
The option to call it something other than marriage was always available to them, and would certainly have been met with much less resistance. Militant homosexuals insisted on keeping the word, no matter how much damage that did. Liberal fascists will be liberal fascists.
Don't ask me -- I didn't write the opinion. But I do know that the rule of Law, the supremacy of Federal law over State law and the powers of the federal judiciary are all in the US Constitution. So when a Circuit Court orders you to do something, you do it. In North Carolina's case, the state even acknowledges in its oath of office for Attorneys General that federal law takes precedence. And federal judges -- not state elected officials -- determine what federal law says. Even when we don't like it.
Impeachment? To hell with “impeachment” - that is the coward’s way of NOT dealing with the problem.
Save the pointless discussions of “impeachment” for the babbling effeminate twits in Congress. Not one of them is worth a bucket of horse piss. And I don’t give a rat’s tail if they have an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ or an ‘I’ - or whatever label is in vogue these days, after their names - It’s all Kabuki theater. ALL OF IT!
In the end there is ultimately but one way to deal with these treacherous, satanic, seditious SOB’s in black robes, and all the rest of this freak show cabal now abusing their power ... Men, those who still have a nut sack between their legs, know what is to be done with such vermin, and done without exception ... But that will never happen - because there are no more “men” in this country ... just a bunch of materialistic Pansie-assed bed wetters, who are guaranteed to run from a fight if they are in jeopardy of loosing Sunday football or their favorite beer - because that is where lies their “treasure” ... all that matters to them is increasing their pile of “stuff.” To hell with freedom - that takes to much work. Give us our “bread and circuses,” and we won’t even shed a tear if the whole freedom thing evaporates forever!
I am near certain that most here will continue to pedal pablum about “impeachment,” the “next” election, etc. etc., while our beloved country goes down the crapper, without a shot being fired in anger.
HOWEVER ...
There IS ANOTHER PATH we may take as a “holding action” - a BLOODLESS way ... But I Suspect most of you have not the guts to follow through - because it entails REAL sacrifice.
STOP DEPENDING ON SOMEBODY ELSE TO CARRY YOUR LOAD!
YOU are a U.S. CITIZEN - And by virtue of the phrase, “We the People,” WE are ALL 100 percent responsible for EVERYTHING this government does - or fails to do! Each of us WILL be held accountable for its actions - even if we take no personal part in them. Just as much as the Germans and the Japanese civilians were responsible for the actions of their leaders - as they FAILED to OPPOSE THEM - so too we Americans are liable, if we fail to take REAL ACTION to STOP these murdering, lying, thieving, seditious, treasonous, satanic psychopaths, who are now actively and willfully destroying this nation, and doing so with impunity before our very eyes!
Will you all continue to stand idle, watching, while these soulless monsters kill our nation? Are you going to pretend that “impeachment,” or some other legalistic nonsense, will right our sinking ship? WE are going down by the bow - and FAST!
For Christ’s sakes, people, MAN UP already! STOP being freaking wusses! It’s time to take the fight directly to the enemy - it is time to cut off the enemy’s balls - starting with their bank account.
You want something that will EFFECTIVELY END this treasonous BS? Here it is ... Very simple, very effective, and absolutely NON-VIOLENT!
A NATIONAL TAX STRIKE, waged against the fascist pigs of the federal oligarchy. DO NOT PAY! DO NOT FILE! A simple NON-VIOLENT act of protest that would, if followed through, accomplish much to stopping these fascist federal bastards, dead in their tracks. And it will not cost you a dime to implement ... Oh, but it may cost you all your “stuff.”
NOT A DIME FOR TYRANNY! Every community leader, every pastor, every priest, every boy scout - every freedom-loving American with blood coursing through their veins should take this as their rallying cry!
Let’s see if the PTB at FR have the chutzpah to endorse THAT strategy. Oh, but heaven’s no! We might loose our tax exempt status! We might loose our internet connection! We might loose all our precocious “stuff!” We might go to jail! BLAH-BLAH-BLAH!
Will it happen? NO! Why? Because cowards will risk nothing. What!? Loose all my precious “stuff!?” No way! I’ll leave it to my masters to keep me happy with crumbs - while they deprive me of my property, liberty - and, eventually my life ... But I get to live like a king for a time.
Guess the First Commandment does not carry much weight around here, eh? Your omnipotent omniscient omnipresent “god” is the criminal cartel known as the IRS! You obviously fear the IRS more than you fear GOD! So you won’t lift a finger to stop evil! PLEASE, spare me the lectures of voting in more “Republicans” - that is a crock of putrid dung. They’re all lying spineless weasels. They are all culpable for what is going on. They each know that Obama and his treasonous regime are illegitimate - and they each CHOOSE to do NOTHING to stop the progression of our nation’s demise at the hands of these usurpers. After Fast and Furious, Obama - and every last member of his cabinet - should have been put on trial for treason, and, upon conviction, sent to the gallows for a PUBLIC execution. But this will never come to pass because the entire federal government - every branch, every agency, every last officer thereof - is CORRUPT. And every single one of these entities is now heavily armed - and fully willing to kill every American, down to the last, if any of us should dare oppose their tyranny.
Which is precisely why, if we do not declare and impose a tax strike, immediately, rather than plying footsies with the fools in Congress who say “impeachment” - when they know full well that such remedy will go nowhere - then this “game” WILL come down to a indescribably VIOLENT shooting war. We will all be made to face, and likely perish in, one of the most brutal wars of human history ... I guarantee you that much of an outcome IF you refuse to do that which can easily be done to effectively end this tyranny! STARVE THE BEAST!
Do any of you here believe that your continued funding of an immoral, illicit, perverted, murderous, thieving, seditious federal government is something God will turn a blind eye to at your personal judgment? Do you think he will excuse your culpability, accepting your excuse of innocence by reason of “coercion?” Here’s the simple answer - NO! Because you each have a free will! You CANNOT be “coerced” to do ANYTHING! NOT EVER! Whether you like it or not - WE EACH, individually and corporately, are RESPONSIBLE for EVERYTHING this regime does in OUR NAME.
Are there still any folks who still think we do not live in a dictatorship? Who still think the people make the laws?
Majority rules...blah, blah, blah?
No tyrants to overturn the will of the People, etc?
Yeah, uh huh, riiiggghhhttt....
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