Posted on 10/07/2014 6:50:49 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
div class="photo_caption">U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in an interview with The Washington Post's Dan Balz at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 20, 2014.
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for same-sex marriage bans to be lifted in five states, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called Monday for amending the U.S. Constitution to prevent either the federal government or the U.S. Supreme Court from overturning a state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Cruz announced his plans in a statement Monday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to let stand appeals court rulings allowing same-sex marriages in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. Cruz called the court's decision to let those rulings stand "tragic and indefensible" and expressed concern that it would lead to the overturning of same-sex marriage bans in every state.
Like other statewide Republican officials in Texas, Cruz has been an ardent defender of the state's same-sex marriage ban, which was approved by Texas voters as an amendment to the Texas Constitution in 2005. The Texas ban was ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge in February. The state immediately appealed that ruling to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
"When Congress returns to session, I will be introducing a constitutional amendment to prevent the federal government or the courts from attacking or striking down state marriage laws," Cruz said. “Traditional marriage is an institution whose integrity and vitality are critical to the health of any society. We should remain faithful to our moral heritage and never hesitate to defend it.”
All right, we can discuss the idea that an amendment may not pass.
Does that make this a futile move by Cruz? What other options are there? At least Cruz is taking a stand here - however pointless you may deem it to be.
And I applaud him for it. Far better than the usual idiot ideas that government should have no role in marriages anyway.
THAT type of libertardian thinking is what got us queer marriages AND the Supremes overturning bans on them in the first place.
Funny that all the amendments to the state constitutions, duly amended by due process by the people of those states,
were ruled “unconstitutional”.
I would have little surprise if leftist judges, following a Constitutional Amendment thwarting their ability to destroy our society, ruled that the amendment itself was unconstitutional.
Of course he's taking a noble stand on this and I applaud him. But with the tide of public opinion shifting leftward, it'll die an early death. No legislation Harry Reid disagrees with makes it past his inbox. Where do we think this will go?
It really doesn't matter WHAT a reason is ...
Have you any idea how much TIME is involved with calling for, gathering together, arguing and agreeing to .... ANYthing that adds to or changes the Constitution ?
The United States has a little time left before we breathe our last, but we should first focus on the criminals and not the perverts
Where do we think this will go?
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I guess it will go into some conservative forums where so called conservatives will sneer at it and pick it to pieces.
ALL politicians love to get a rise and an attaboy from their constituents, but attaboys are not necessarily (good) policy
We've been up and down the Constitution and ammendments here in FR for (almost) decades ...
I heard Oklahoma has considered taking the State out of Marriage, if worse comes to worse, perhaps this is what will have to be done.
“I heard Oklahoma has considered taking the State out of Marriage, if worse comes to worse, perhaps this is what will have to be done.”
Meaning, Government out of Marriage if this is the way it is going to be done. I don’t like that choice either really.
You contradict yourself.
If the government should have no dominion over marriage and marriage belongs to the church, then why do you say “It’s a state issue. Plain and simple.”?
No, you are wrong. Marriage clearly is a State AND Federal concern.
Unfortunately homosexual jamming has been successful so far. The Bible told us how to deal with them. I helped prosecute the CRIME of homosexuality just a few short years ago. Because we’ve strayed from those commands culturally, we’re constantly calling God a liar, and from the wrath He’s pouring on us, it’s clear He doesn’t like that very much.
Because people decided the government should not be involved in marriage, we now have queer marriages and black robed thugs overturning state laws against queer marriages.
So you believe the citizens of a state shoud have the right to vote that queer marriages are illegal? I do. I suspect you do too.
But when you DENY the Federal government that same involvement you open the door for a bunch of black robed activists to overturn Constitutional Law.
Cruz is here proposing an Amendment protecting the States Rights. The 10th should be adequate enough, but clearly it isn’t. So what would you do? Besides sit back and watch Fedzilla enact a nationwide policy favoring queer marriage?
ONLY so far as protecting the state from having inbreds and diseased people multiplying and ultimately becoming a burden to the taxpayer
Thank You, Ted Cruz!
If anything Cruz should introduce a bill stipulating that those adjudicating constititutional matters and blatantly obfuscating the Bill of Rights will be sentenced to 20 years of hard labor.
The 10th doesn’t dictate federal law and regulations on marriage, and that has been very important to the left/libertarians supporting it.
For instance gay marriage in the military, for federal employees, and in immigration and foreign policy makes a state trying to forbid it, impossible in reality.
VOTE THE BOYS OUT!!!
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