Posted on 07/03/2015 11:58:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s July 4, and you’re not very happy with your country.
Specifically, you’re unhappy with your country’s Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the marriages of same-sex couples shall be legal in every state.
Your bible tells you – and a lot of others – that homosexuality is a sin, and that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The justices – five of them, at least – believe the Constitution says otherwise.
What can you do?
You can believe the Court made a mistake, of course, and others should respect your right to those beliefs – even when they disagree.
You can argue – out loud – that your government shouldn’t recognize non-traditional marriage. But you should expect people to disagree just as loudly, because the free speech principles that give voice to your beliefs also apply to those who think you’re wrong.
You can even decide, as some public officials have, that if your job requires you to accommodate homosexuality and your beliefs require otherwise, you need another job.
Or you can go a step further.
Like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who stepped in front of every camera he could find this week to call the Supreme Court justices “lawless” and advocate removing them by imposing term limits.
Like Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who also declared the Court was “lawless” before providing public officials in his state a roadmap to how they might defy the same-sex ruling and keep their jobs.
Like the Alabama Supreme Court, which told state officials and judges that it would take 25 days to consider what to do with the Supreme Court ruling – as if there were other options besides “obey it.”
You should know that for all of them, and for all states that try to dodge the same-sex decision, that this is a losing fight.
You should remember that there was similar anger, and similar defiance, when the Court ruled against segregation more than a half-century ago.
In Virginia, it was called the “massive resistance.” In Alabama, it was the “stand in the schoolhouse door.”
And although vestiges of that defiance remain, it ultimately was harmful, economically and otherwise, to the states that endorsed it.
That will be true today, as well. Because the laws that courts affirm serve not only to protect us from the actions of others. They also frame what is culturally and socially acceptable.
That’s what the Supreme Court did when it ruled that blacks deserved equal treatment a half-century ago. It’s what the Court did again when it ruled that homosexuals deserved equality in marriage.
With each decision, the justices moved those who condemned blacks and gays further to the fringe. The same will be true for states that try to legislate their way around the same-sex marriage ruling.
This is the path our country always takes with minorities, even those the framers shunned. Slowly, but eventually, they become equals in the government’s eyes – and most of our eyes, too.
That, by the way, is part of what we celebrate today.
So you can believe the Supreme Court justices are activist or misguided. You can believe they’ve just sent America on a dangerous path.
But the Court gave us a reminder last week, as it often does.
You may be unhappy today with your country.
But it’s not your country. It belongs to all of us.
A thread-summary comment. Totally agree!
Rainbow is the new black.
Woke up to the national anthem playing on TV with all of the usual iconic images seen thru a superimposed waving American flag and I couldn’t watch it. Turned it off. It’s Bullshit now. All of it.
The word ‘marriage’ means nothing anymore. When a word, any word, can be redefined to mean anything a person wants it to mean, then it actually means nothing. In the USSA, words no more have integrity. Our Founding Fathers are embarrassed by the turn our late, formerly great USA has taken.
I agreed with the guy for the first half of his article anyway...
I want to be able to once again use the words: “gay” when I mean happy, and “rainbow” as a good thing.
Why are a half of one percent of the people getting so much press?
Dred scott mean anything to this guy?
Here goes that “right side of history” argument. Frankly, I agree with it in a way. I think our country has taken a downward spiral that is now irreversible, and those who want to be on the “right side of history” will have to let it go. No fireworks here.
Anybody familiar with this guy?
snarky little twerp, ain’t he...?
Racial segregation was about separating people based on skin color.
Yet the Left keeps trying to equate that with homosexuality
He would argue that his equation deals with the Founding Fathers ignoring people based on such features as skin color and personal, well, proclivities...
Still a snarky little twerp, no matter his reasoning...
The solution to this is to push recognition of polygamy as being constitutionally required by Obergefell. Then do incest.
Whatever else the Obergefell crowd may be, they are not stupid...which is why you will not see any push to regularize polygamy or incest, because they know that is a bridge too far...
This is not a country without the constitution that established it.
Currently, it is a land mass, invaded by foreigners as planned by treasonous citizens with a self serving globalist ideology, who desire to overthrow our constitutional Republic, collapse our economy and create a global government of foreign elites to herd, rob and rule us as it serves their interests, evil fetishes and insanity.
Foreigners own us and run us and they decide the condition of our lives. They are above the law so the application of law is selective. Therefore, there is no rule of law.
All I can say is that he must really hate black people — to compare them to sex perverts.
I've been looking for a phrase to explain what's wrong with me ... I think I've found it ... thanx
Because they are being used by the 1% to eradicate Christianity (and the 1% own the press).
I always thought it an odd situation that people who claim to be God fearing and believe in small government would need the approval of Government for their union before God.
How sexist! OMG!!
That said, I agree with you 100%.
Feminized America is dying America, and we know it, though few have the courage to speak that truth.
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