Posted on 02/14/2014 10:59:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“We made a commitment to each other in our love and lives, and now had the legal commitment, called marriage, to match. Isn't that what marriage is? ... I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation's fears and prejudices have given way, and today's young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry. Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don't think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the ‘wrong kind of person’ for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people's religious beliefs over others. ... I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.” — Mildred Loving, "Loving for All"
Last night, only days after hearing oral arguments in the case, a Virginia federal judge struck down the state ban on same-sex marriage, writing unequivocally that “[t]radition is revered in the Commonwealth, and often rightly so. However, tradition alone cannot justify denying same-sex couples the right to marry any more than it could justify Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage.” The judge opened her opinion with the quote, above, from Mildred Loving, the plaintiff in the 1967 challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. She thus joined a unanimous and ever-expanding collection of federal judges who have chosen to answer the question left up in the air by the Supreme Court last Spring....
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He began his vicious attack in 2003 with Lawrence and will finish it with the effective outlawing of Christianity in this country, because that is essentially what the sodomite agenda is about.
I consider Kennedy our mortal enemy, every bit as dangerous and worthy of the same evasive action that the 9-11 terrorists deserved. I do not say that lightly. He should be hanging from a tree as the traitor that he is. He gave the societal terrorists a sledge hammer.
Have no doubt, legalized pedophilia is the next progressive cause.
...and it too will win...(in Gomorrica's court of secularism).
...sick land, getting sicker.
Courts have read the Constitution to protect individuals against government law but now also against God’s law. The Constitution as endowed by the Courts, recognizes no God given heritage. A constitutional amendment is the only answer to the drift of debauchery.
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