Democracy died today in the USA: the Supreme Court (#SCOTUS) killed it

Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action ^ | 6 October 2014 | Teófilo de Jesús (@vivificat)

[Teófilo]

Brethren, Peace to you all in Jesus Christ, our Supreme, Merciful Judge.

This is in the news at this time:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit same-sex marriages, paving the way for an immediate expansion of gay and lesbian unions.

The justices on Monday did not comment in rejecting appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The court's order immediately ends delays on marriage in those states. Couples in six other states should be able to get married in short order.

That would make same-sex marriage legal in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

But the justices have left unresolved for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide.

Analysis. The decision by the SCOTUS not to hear the appeals from Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin regarding the right of the states to define and regulate marriage, often inscribed in the states' constitution by popular referendum or by clear legislative majorities, sounds the death knell of the legal recognition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman in the United States. Even though the justices "have left unresolved for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide", we can't expect their future reversal  now that the floodgates have been opened in 30 states. Every law, every constitutional amendment protecting marriage as a marital union between one man and one woman is now fair game across the nation. By the time the SCOTUS even hears a case sorting the powers of the state to regulate and define marriage in accordance to natural law and the wishes of the states' societies, marriage will have been redefined by entrepreneurial jurists in all 50 states and territories. We have lost the war to protect the institution of marriage in this country.

It was just a matter of time. The Supreme Court’s June 26, 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas effectively denied the existence of God’s Eternal Law and natural law, and established its own atheistic and anarchic “morality.” (1) Their decision opened the way for the expansion of rights for people suffering from same-sex attractions in the name of absolute personal authority, and removed the duty of the state to protect and foster natural marriage as it has been understood throughout history. The state is now to be a mere passive recorder of any such "marital" unions entered by one or more consenting adults of either sex, however many, for however long the contracts may last. Ironically, the state retains its right to foster and finance Malthusian policies of birth and population control, including abortion, also in the name of protecting individual rights. It was just a matter of time for the SCOTUS to catch up with all of the consequences of their Lawrence v. Texas decision.

The SCOTUS refusal to hear the appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin represents a death-blow to republican, representative democracy and the power of the people to regulate society and its institution through ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments. SCOTUS has tacitly nullified laws without reason or comment across the whole country. We the People are no longer in charge: unelected jurists, educated in the latest deconstructive, postmodern trends and informed by hundreds of "scientists" whose advice the jurists value uncritically have succeeded in imposing a fiction over and against the will of the people. You might think I exaggerate, that I ignore previous instances in our history when such severe claims were made and "nothing happened." I assure you I'm aware of these instances and stand in what I say: SCOTUS has killed our democratic republican polity, this time through inaction.

Laws formulated over and against natural law are null and void from the moment of  their enactment.(2) People of conscience should not obey them and also should be prepared to face the social and civil consequences of their principled stance. Persecution against people of faith will now increase dramatically: the Democrats will dance for joy and the Republicans, who during the years they were in power confirmed many of the jurists now governing us, and wary of the polls, will look the other way.

The isolation of people of faith and attempts at further excluding them from the civil and political arena will now intensify. We must be prepared for the upcoming persecution as we mourn the death of democracy and the last vestiges of the Nation's adherence to natural law in America today.

Notes.

1. TFP Committe on American Issues, Defending a Higher Law: Why We Must Resist
Same-Sex “Marriage” and the Homosexual Movement, 2004, p.1.

2. "Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these. There are, it is true, a great number of indifferent points, in which both the divine law and the natural leave a man at his own liberty; but which are found necessary for the benefit of society to be restrained within certain limits. And herein it is that human laws have their greatest force and efficacy: for, with regard to such points as are not indifferent, human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to the former. To instance in the case of murder: this is expressly forbidden by the divine, and demonstrably by the natural law; and from these prohibitions arises the true unlawfulness of this crime. Those human laws that annex a punishment to it do not at all increase its moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae (in the court of conscience) to abstatin from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we, are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." -- (William Blackstone, as quoted by Clarence B. Carson in _The American Tradition_, p. 41)

[Teófilo]

Blunders. Typos. Mine.

[Teófilo]

Ping!

[bicyclerepair]

Who would’ve guessed a hand basket has turbo.

[NorthMountain]

I disagree ...

The Republic died on January 22, 1973.

[Teófilo]

That was but the first stab. The wound was bad, but not deadly. Not until now.

~Theo

[TexasCajun]

But States get to decide on legalized marijuana over Federal Law?

I'm confused.

[Ransomed]

“It was just a matter of time.”

“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”

—Pope Leo XIII, 1880

Freegards

[GraceG]

This is why there should be a mechanism for majority of the states to override a supreme court decisions....

[peyton randolph]

From an economic standpoint, the republic was killed on August 15, 1971. However, I agree from a moral standpoint, that January 22, 1973 was the defining date.

Reagan’s two terms just slowed down the inevitable.

[Sacajaweau]

That’s ridiculous....They have the right already in their state.

[pallis]

The Supreme Court is just another branch of corrupt government, big government, unlimited government. The justices are nothing but bums like congresscritters.

[CivilWarBrewing]

The Republic died on November 4, 2008. There were speed bumps prior to that, but this date saw Uncle Sam driving straight into a brick wall at high speed.

[Viennacon]

Its been dead for a while. The system is rigged. I reject.it and will work to see its destruction.

[Jacquerie]

Exactly, as per one of Levin's Liberty Amendments.

The 17th Amendment enabled 80 years of judicial assaults.

Levin has teamed up with Randy Barnett and others to relight the Article V movement. His show tonight should be a blast.

[redgolum]

Someone has a lot of dirt on Roberts.

[Hostage]

Yes, there exists several mechanisms but the only one available now is Article V of the US Constitution.

[Teófilo]

Uh, no idea what you mean...:-)

[GonzoII]

Whatever happens this is not our Everlasting City.

1 Jn 2:17: And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

[Teófilo]

That’s called “nullification.” Believe me, nullification has a bad track record in our country’s history.

[Teófilo]

True that.