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To: betty boop

Many people have been saying we need an Article V convention for some time now. Why did Obergefell push you over the edge?


86 posted on 07/02/2015 8:21:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Why did Obergefell push you over the edge?

Because Obergefell redefined a word that has had consistent meaning for over 4 millennia. Explanation:

Gay activists claim that they are denied equal protection under the law to "marry." They piously invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to gain such "equal protection."

But it seems crystal-clear to me that gays have never been denied the "right" to marry (not that marriage is a federal concern in the first place; but leave that aside for now). They just choose not to do so, because they don't like the definition of marriage — universally understood as the lifetime, exclusive union of one man and one woman for the purpose of propagating and rearing offspring.

What Obergefell did was to redefine what the word "marriage" means. Now, it's just all about erotic love, period.

But any word has a meaning that cannot be gratuitously changed at the drop of a hat, just to placate disgruntled people. Certainly SCOTUS has no power to change the meaning of words. But that, to me, is the prime effect of Obergefell.

You start attacking words, language itself, then pretty soon, you get a Tower of Babel situation, in which people are no longer able to communicate with one another, or understand one another.

So yeah, this decision really did "push me over the edge." WORDS are not subject to judicial review.

105 posted on 07/02/2015 11:29:58 AM PDT by betty boop (Science deserves all the love we can give it, but that love should not be blind. — NR)
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