Posted on 02/12/2015 10:14:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected hearing Alabamas appeal on gay marriage earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has taken the firmest stance of all potential Republican presidential candidate on the issue.
Cruz introduced the State Marriage Defense Act just two days after the high courts decision, which would allow states to decide on how to define marriage, rather than federal judges.
While Republicans have long been the party supporting only traditional marriage, media reports have recently stressed how slow likely Republican 2016 presidential have been to speak out on the Alabama matter.
The Supreme Court opted not to hear a case in which Alabama requested a delay in a lower court order against the states ban on same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court essentially made Alabama the 37th state in the country to recognize same-sex marriage, in what is expected to be a preview to the courts decision later this year in a gay marriage case.
Even though the Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Windsor that the federal government should defer to state choices about who may be married, the Obama Administration has disregarded state marriage laws enacted by democratically-elected legislatures to uphold traditional marriage, Cruz said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I wont vote for anyone but Cruz. Go ahead, call me a purist.
>>Gay marriage is toothpaste that is never going back into the tube.
Oh it’ll go into the tube, the sewer tube — right along with the culture of self-worshiping progressive Useful Idiot American-Idolacizers who “normalized” it.
Got Romans 1:25+?
Nature rules.
Introducing a new statute (the State Marriage Defense Act)
is changing the law, in the abstract. I’ll admit it isn’t quite the same thing as amending an existing statute.
But my point stands - what would stop the courts from declaring this one unconstitutional also??
“what would stop the courts from declaring this one unconstitutional also??”
true, nothing. Until a state is man enough to defy the Feds.
Very good....this is why I say “change the culture, not the law.”
>> The majority of the voters are obviously against gay marriage
It’s really about sodomy, not love, not procreation, but sodomy.
If Cruz gets this through the Senate and House and past Obama into law then he is the clear winner.
I haven't seen that yet. But if he gets results on this I am with him 100%.
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