Posted on 05/28/2015 2:20:52 PM PDT by Nextrush
As the debate over First Amendment Freedom of Religion laws raged back in May with Republican Governors backing down under business pressure in Indiana and Arkansas, the Republican governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, said his state didn't need such a law.
The legislature has been acting, though, the House passing a bill to allow government officials to object to gay marriage, the bill now in the Senate as Senate Bill 2.
But today Governor McCrory says he will veto the bill.
A news release describing it is headlined "Governor McCrory defends Constitution".
McCrory speaks of 'sincerely held religious beliefs that marriage is between a man an a woman' that include his own.
But then he says:
"Whether it is the president, governor, mayor, a law enforcement officer, or magistrate, no public official who voluntarily swears to support and defend the Constitution and to discharge all duties of their office should be exempt from upholding that oath; therefore, I will veto Senate Bill 2."
McCrory already laid out his position against religious freedom earlier this year in the corporate laden state of North Carolina.
The legislators, I suspect, wanted to look good on this issue with this issue and decided to move this bill regardless of how they personally feel or expect the courts to rule in the end.
McCrory said in his statement that government officials "defend the Constitution" by going along with gay marriage, regardless of their religious beliefs.
McCrory has defined going along with gay marriage as upholding the Constitution even before the official Supreme Court ruling.
He worked for Duke Power, I believe. Still does.
Huh???? His position makes no sense. A marriage Partnership agreement cannot be entered into for the purposes of committing a crime(sodomy). Uphold the law governor and knock off the PC liberal nonsense doubletalk!
Go ISIS on them. Refuse to acknowledge it as marriage. If they ask you to bake a cake or marry them refuse to do so. If they file a lawsuit against just lop their heads off and burn their homes to the ground. Hey the leftists on’t have a problem with ISIS doing that to Christians.../ s
Sounds like he’s ready to offend, not defend the Constitution.
This is a major socon litmus test. It looks like Governor McCrory just failed it.
No more “lesser evils”
ever!
WHY I HAVE A ILLUMINATED CRUCIFIX IN MY FRONT YARD
Cruz: Too Many Republicans are Scared of Gay Marriage/Religious Liberty Debate
Friday, May 22, 2015 11:01:39 AM · 16 of 17
mosesdapoet to SeekAndFind; All
He’s right! Are those so called democrats which belong to a democrat in name only being called out on their core beliefs ? Nooo that wouldn’t be bi-partisan ! Ask any of those so called GOPES (Government Over the People Elite Statists) campaign advisors about depressing the “democrat” vote and you get a lecture.
Democrat core beliefs showed up with booing the mention of God in 2012 which made it official. They’ve declared a war on religion particularly Christianity. Which I for one have an illumiuated crucifix at night in my front yard facing the street Highway) as a statement. And encourage others do as well
They apparently don’t believe there’s such a thing as the Ten Commandments or sin because everything that leaves their mouths is a lie.
But I have yet to hear a Republican candidate even suggest even in jest why “democrat” lying is part of their core belief. Never mind promoting clony capitalism financing alternate energy plans which went belly up at our expense while leaving our infastructure falling apart......Why because it isn’t being bi-partisan or poltically correct.
Posted in WI FR’s State Page
From a related thread …
The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage. So with all due respect to Gov. McCrory, he is unthinkingly (PC mode?) violating Section 1 of the 14th Amendment by using constitutionally unprotected gay marriage to trump constitutionally enumerated religious expression, Section 1 prohibiting the states from doing such things.
Candidates for public office shouldn’t be regarded as official candidates until they pass a basic constitutinal law test, such a test at least emphasizing constitutionally enumerated rights versus constitutionally unprotected, vote-winning PC rights.
This has been a pretty depressing week when it comes to the homosexual issue. Ireland’s vote, Texas’ failure to pass its own bill to defund the process of “marrying” these couples, and now McCrory caving-in while using the coded language of the enemy.
And aside from Cruz and maybe an unimpressive murmur from one or two other candidates, we’re not seeing much reaction from Republicans. It’s like one side is putting everything it has into fighting this war, while we’ve layed down our arms.
The GOP again telegraphing Christians are unwelcome in the Party.
Hogwash. "Gay marriage" makes the fulfillment of every single clause of the stated purposes of the U.S. Constitution impossible.
And laws or court opinions that violate the laws of nature and nature's God and/or the Constitution are null and void.
Like most Republican "leaders" now this governor is an ignoramus and an oathbreaker.
Hat's off to the state Senate for showing they haven't been entirely emasculated, but the Governor? I've never been quite certain there's anyone home. The porch flickers and the lawn gets mowed, but no one has ever actually seen anyone mowing. It's a mystery.
McCrory might just as well be a NASCAR vehicle, all festooned with corporate logos, soft-drink and liquor executives, real estate lobbyists, etc., but no engine and no driver except the cheapest kind of Middle School political correctness.
Not very impressive, to say the least. You know McCrory would love to have taken a pass on this, but instead of offering up a solution, something in accord with compelling state interests, something more bold like defending the 9th and 10 Amendments, now he's counting on the regular bunch of Leftist Looters and Social Justice Warriors to shout the rest of us down.
Not going to happen.
He can probably count on having troublesome opposition in a primary next time around, at the very least. Because those same shouters who will call him brave today will be stuffing ballots for the Democrats, as anyone would expect, when re-election rolls around.
If that is his excuse he don’t belong in any office under said the same Constitution, as such a govern is clearly a threat to any WRITTEN Constitution of Civil government, when he claims to act in it’s name on matters named not even once in its text.
He might as well be doing it because some random stranger told him so, to hell with the text of the law.
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