Posted on 07/23/2022 5:45:33 PM PDT by Coronal
“ and next week broccoli”
At least the broccoli is safe sex
Only one reason to call it marriage is to collect GOVERNMENT benefits. Everything else can be done by contract...HIPPA, Life Insurance, property disposition...etc etc.
The only issue at hand is gay marriage. That is the question. Mixing interracial marriage in the discussion is a cynical trick to create confusion because the controversy was already addressed by the Supreme Court in Loving vs. Virginia.
I prefer to have reasons to vote for rather than vote for the lesser of two evils.
“Marriage is not a federal issue. Leave it to the states”
Article I full faith and credit clause would disagree as would the 14th amendment and the equal protection clause. Marriage is a legal contract between two citizens and the state. What may hold up is a state could refuse to make the legal contract between two citizens but it would have to honor a contract from another state. That is exactly what the full faith and credit clause is for. The argument that one state not issuing a contract while another does is a text book 14th amendment and the equal protection clause case. Federal supremacy clause applies if Congress passes a law codifying either of those issues. The privacy argument was always weak and frankly a cop out the USSC didn’t want to have to rule on a enumerated clause in the original constitution let alone on a subsequent amendment now they will have choice. The language is pretty clear even for 18th century English. It says citizen not man or woman the words used is citizen. Keep religion ALL religion out of government period the first amendment expressly prohibited the establishment of one or any religion in the US government period.
CRAP!
Johnson is right to be worried. In overturning Roe v Wade SCOTUS declared that rights not codified in the Constitution belong “to the states respectively or to the people”. “Gay marriage” is just such a right, and SCOTUS justices have to be reconsidering their mistake. The midterm elections should erase any congressional ability to mitigate the Supreme Court’s actions if they decide to reverse themselves.
Why is Johnson in trouble?
If Johnson is calculating that the number of votes he might gain from Organized Faggotry in November will exceed the number of votes he will lose from good people who otherwise would have voted for him, he's got about a 99% chance of being wrong in that calculation.
More likely he's not quite THAT stupid and is just scared of the media backlash if he dares support natural marriage as opposed to unnatural marriage. Given the mass over-representation and unwarranted share of control of the media which Organized Faggotry has, he's certainly not wrong to be afraid.
Johnson is facing a very tough re-election fight which he is looking increasingly likely to lose, and (combined with the probable adverse outcome of the Governor election) puts Wisconsin right up there with Pennsylvania and Georgia as far as very likely major disappointments in statewide elections in November.
We have better chances, so it seems for now, of making statewide gains in Arizona and Nevada than in those other 3 states, though Arizona might turn out just to be a tease (when all the RINOs run shrieking to the left and vote for Democrats and against conservatives), and Nevada is REALLY good at having close elections magically all turn out in the Democrats' favor.
No. Congress passing a law does not supersede the Tenth Amendment. And where do the full faith and credit clause and the equal protection of the laws clause even factor into this?
Legislating for homosexual “marriage” further violates the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause specifically refers to establishing a federal-level religion to the exclusion of all others.
If I had married broccoli instead of my eventual ex, I think I would have avoided divorce. Unless it left me for a carrot… could have happened I suppose…
That important point being made, I think it’s too late to shovel the manure back into the horse.
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