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Democracy died today in the USA: the Supreme Court (#SCOTUS) killed it
Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action ^ | 6 October 2014 | Teófilo de Jesús (@vivificat)

Posted on 10/06/2014 9:22:07 AM PDT by Teófilo

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To: bicyclerepair
What happens to the minister, pastor, priest etc that refuses to perform a same sex marriage?
21 posted on 10/06/2014 10:03:56 AM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: redgolum
Bingo. Team Eboma has gone to the ends of the Earth to have his NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., drudge up DIRT on Boehner and Roberts.

No doubt these 'two with a tan' have a secret lifestyle and they're being blackmailed to play along or else get taken down.

22 posted on 10/06/2014 10:12:03 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Teófilo

RESULTS OF A CURSED NATION

DEUTERONOMY 28:15-68

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

15 “But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 22 He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you. 30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 34 You will go insane from seeing all this. 35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils—from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. 36 The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there. 37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

The Curse of Reversed Status

38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity. 42 Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil. 43 The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you. 46 These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

The Curse of Military Siege

47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

The Curse of Covenant Termination

58 “If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants—great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. 61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished. 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God. 63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”


23 posted on 10/06/2014 10:23:10 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: All

The question is, “Is this the type of thing that gets people killed int he long run?” Not meaning that people will target gays and such; rather are people willing to die to preserve the Republic, and roll back the liberalism that threatens it?

That is what it is going to take.


24 posted on 10/06/2014 10:27:25 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: bicyclerepair

The Republic started to die—with the Civil Rights Act (poorly put into effect) and the death of MLK (who could have turned it around) He was against Affirmative Action. That and LBJ’s War or Poverty and Viet Nam—killed what was left of the Old America. Now the Liberal Philosopy that wrected Europe and South America is strangling America to death. Things will change—in time. At least I hope so?


25 posted on 10/06/2014 10:48:34 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Kyrie eléison. Lord have mercy.


26 posted on 10/06/2014 10:50:43 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Jacquerie

Please click ‘View Replies’ and ping Art V list over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3211868/posts?page=8#8


27 posted on 10/06/2014 10:53:10 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Teófilo
Democracy has been dead a long, long, time in this country. This just carves a date on the tombstone.

Too bad people couldn't leave little things like how Senators are chosen alone, we had a chance of remaining a Republic right up until the 17th Amendment was passed.

28 posted on 10/06/2014 10:55:01 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Teófilo

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F. Kennedy

Those who make self-government impossible will make violent civil war inevitable.

The judicial oligarchy is in the business of making self-government impossible. As is the entire Left/Muslim Brotherhood alliance, which has placed an illegal alien Muslim terrorist in the White House.


29 posted on 10/06/2014 11:51:54 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: GraceG

I don’t agree with that proposed amendment. The idea of the legislatures of all the states making a judicial decision!

There has always existed a mechanism to “override” abusive USSC decisions: The Congress can remove certain matters from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. By simple majority vote.

Here’s proof of the uselessness of the Republican Party: During all the recent years in which the GOP held the WH and both houses of Congress, they never considered removing abortion from the jurisdiction of the USSC.


30 posted on 10/06/2014 11:55:35 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

I agree with your first three statements and half of the fourth...:-)

I’m no “birther”.

I disagree with Barack Obama profoundly on almost every issue. But my disagreement is philosophical, legal, and religious in the sense of the (bad) religious principles he has brought to bear on policy-making. I’m pretty convinced he’s no Muslim, he’s just a bad Christian. Nor do I question Obama’s US citizenship. I think that believing Mr. Obama is not an American is not only wrong on the facts, but also bad form.

My thoughts anyway. Let’s you and I be both happy on the many things we agree on and move on those we don’t.

~Theo


31 posted on 10/06/2014 12:09:33 PM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Resolute Conservative; VerySadAmerican; Nuc 1.1; MamaTexan; Political Junkie Too; jeffc; 1010RD; ...

Article V ping!

WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE SOVEREIGN.

When Federal Courts assume power to rewrite state constitutions to require homo marriage, what further outrage is necessary? There is nothing to lose and everything to gain with an Article V convention to propose amendments.


32 posted on 10/06/2014 12:23:30 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Teófilo

“Bad form”?

That’s incomprehensible.

If he’s an American citizen, why is his “birth certificate” a crude forgery, typed on twelve different typewriters, etc.?

Or is it “bad form” to ask?

The importance of the fact that “Obama” (a citizen of Indonesia whose legal name is “Barry Soetoro”) was put in place by a large criminal enterprise, the Democrat party. Pretending that “Obama” is a citizen means that the Democrat party will never be dismantled and brought to justice for its crimes.


33 posted on 10/06/2014 12:32:43 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Teófilo
The justices on Monday did not comment in rejecting appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin have one more option. They can refuse to perform any new marriages and refuse to recognize marriages after this date. It's a nuclear option and probably not going to happen or help, but it would certainly express the appropriate level of displeasure with those who demand that others recognize this modern farce as if it was a real marriage.

Note: I'm not recommending it, just pointing out an interesting option.

34 posted on 10/06/2014 12:52:25 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Teófilo

You need to go back to Griswold to find the roots of same sex marriage laws as well as the argument that States have no interest to promote the moral behavior of its citizens.


35 posted on 10/06/2014 1:16:11 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Know et al

There’ll be camps soon for them as well as crippling fines.


36 posted on 10/06/2014 1:17:34 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance
I'm afraid you are correct. That is the way these people work.
37 posted on 10/06/2014 1:40:29 PM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: lastchance

What’s the citation?


38 posted on 10/06/2014 2:08:59 PM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Arthur McGowan

I’m sorry, but I simply disagree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evididence and I haven’t seen any. I’ll stick to policy and philosophical differences, thank you.

~Theo


39 posted on 10/06/2014 2:19:08 PM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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bump


40 posted on 10/06/2014 3:09:48 PM PDT by foreverfree
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