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Most Powerful Man on Earth Powerless Against Rogue Courts and Activist Judges - Rush Limbaugh

RUSH: I know a lot of you probably are all excited and happy today that action has finally been taken by the president. He, at 10:45 today, gave a statement endorsing the Federal Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and it was a very strong statement. The president went to great lengths to point out the union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution honored and encouraged, not just in our culture but in all cultures and by every religious faith. As I have been saying: this transcends countries, nations, populations.

Ages and ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitments of a husband and wife promote the welfare of children, the stability of society. And the point the president made is that marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society and governmen. By recognizing and protecting marriage serves the interests of all people. Now, you know, this is the thing that I've been claiming. I mean, all of these people that do not fit certain definitions -- and look, we all -- you know, I don't qualify as a woman! So there are certain things I can't do. But I'm not out there demanding equal rights.

I mean, there's just certain things I can't do, certain places I can't go because I'm not a woman. Same thing with women and men. Children, adults, we have -- nobody is able to do anything and everything whenever they want to. You know, we have these definitions. Any time you have these traditions and institutions that have evolved over time, that people come along and want admittance to when they don't fit the definition, when they're not entitled based on the terms. The institutions have to be weakened in order for certain people to be granted their so-called equality. Now, there's something about all of this, though, that just troubles me.

In the first place, I'm watching the media react to this today, and to the media this is just the latest escape from the humdrum and boredom of the everyday world of covering the news. They are excited. They are jazzed. They are going wall-to-wall with this. They've got experts from this corner of the world and experts from that corner of the world. The point is the media is dealing only with the process here. They're talking about, "What's the president's purpose? Is this a political ploy? How's this going to play for the Democrats during the campaign? What do you have to do to get a constitutional amendment ratified, since it takes so long and it's so hard to do? Does the president really want this to get done or is this just an election-year ploy?" and about every other third idea they come back to, "Is this just an election-year ploy?"

The media, totally caught up in the process of all this and not in the meaning of it. And to me the only story is the meaning of this. Take a look here at what is happening. The president said it himself. The president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world we assume. We think. Do you know why we have to do this, according to the president? Do you know why we need a constitutional amendment to see to it that everybody understands and knows what marriage means? Do you know why? [Studio interruption] Why? It's not just that. It's not just some people breaking the law.

It's that we're not enforcing the law! We've already got law. But since nobody's willing to enforce it, we've got to put another law on the books, this time in the Constitution. The president of the United States said, We've got rogue courts and activist judges who are legislating from the bench. Something is terribly wrong. Now, you and I all know this is nothing new, and we all know this is terribly wrong. But for the most powerful man in the world to stand up and say, There's nothing we can do about activist judges legislating from the bench and rogue courts imposing their version of law and order on society? There's nothing we can do about it, folks. Nothing we can do.

There's nothing currently in the statutes that allows us to stop this. There's nothing we can do to stop these people from doing what they're doing. Instead, we're going to have to go amend the Constitution so they can't do it in this area. Okay, let's assume that we amend the Constitution and let's say that we get this Defense of Marriage Amendment -- and I'm all for it, don't misunderstand. I just think it's a crying, damned shame that we have to go this far. Pick any other institution that you want. Pick any other tradition in this country that you want and imagine this kind of thing happening to it. I just think it is absolutely outrageous for the most powerful -- and this is not a criticism of the president. Don't misunderstand here. I realize many of you may think I'm being critical. I'm not.

I'm...I'm...I'm... I feel totally powerless today. I feel more powerless than I have ever felt in my life. We've got the president of the United States, who himself is complaining about activist judges and rogue courts. We've got the president of the United States who is claiming that they are more powerful than the Constitution, that they are more powerful than existing statute, that they are more powerful than he is. We can't stop these people. We've got to accept them and do an end run around them on the Constitution. The correct thing to be able to do is to amend the Constitution so we can get rid of these people who violate their oath.

What we need to do is come up with a way to get rid of these people who are single-handedly trying to destroy the culture of this country by taking the moral underpinnings of our law out from underneath the law. You get rid of the moral underpinnings from law and you may as well not have law. All you've got is a bunch of people who are doing what they want to do when they want to do it, and (raspberry) up your nose if you don't like it, and what are we doing? Okay, in this one instance they are legislating and roguing far more areas of life than just marriage. We can't amend the Constitution every damn time a rogue court or an out-of-control judge decides to start violating his oath of office. This is not the solution.

It may be the solution for marriage in this instance, but there's something terribly, terribly wrong here. And, folks, I don't want you to, again, misunderstand me here. I am not being critical of the president. I am in stunned amazement. I am in stunned amazement that there's nothing that can be done to get rid of these people, that what we are being told is, "They are who they are. They are doing what they're doing, and we've got to find a way around them." We have to find a way around the lawbreakers. This Massachusetts Supreme Court is standing the rule of law on its head. It is legislating from the bench. It is telling the Massachusetts legislature what law it must pass. That does not happen in a constitutional republic. That does not happen in a country that abides by its own Constitution.

The Massachusetts legislature is doing the same thing: trying to find an end run around this court instead of dealing with this court by saying to it, "You can't do it." Where's the civil disobedience here? The civil disobedience ought to be somebody standing up to the judges and saying, "Screw you!" The civil disobedience ought to be aimed at the people who are forcing lawlessness on us. Instead, we're respecting the civil disobedience of those who break the law and we're calling it "civil disobedience" when it's law-breaking. And we're acting afraid of them! And we're acting powerless like there's nothing we can do to stop them.

Well, I've about had it. I really have. None of this makes any sense to me. Not as a person who is a genuine, true conservative and not a Republican or a Democrat, but understands the notion of individual liberty and constitutional republicanism as enshrined by the Founders. What's going on here would have these people rolling over in their graves -- and if they were alive, they wouldn't be putting up with it. This is not at all what they intended, and the people behind all this know it full well. It's... you know, we sit here and laugh about it because there are certain elements about it that are funny but this is not the only instance of this.

I mean it is -- the president's doing what he can. These judges that are good, that he's appointing, the Democrats are doing everything they can to subvert these people, even by destroying their lives if they have to, and their reputations. And I know what that's like. And you don't just sit around and let it happen! You don't just sit around and find a way around so that it can keep happening, but..that it doesn't work because I'm telling you there aren't enough amendments to the Constitution to deal with all of this activism and all of this roguism. There just aren't. And even if there were the amendments, there's not the time to get them all ratified.

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This article contains some superlative observations by El Rushbo on this whole "marriage" thing for gays and lesbos....worthy of a full posting...

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