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Cruz: Amend U.S. Constitution to Preserve Marriage Bans
Texas Tribune ^ | Oct. 6, 2014 | Aman Batheja

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.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014issues; cruz; marriageamendment; tedcruz
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To: ScottinVA

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.


41 posted on 10/07/2014 8:16:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


42 posted on 10/07/2014 8:17:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

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?

43 posted on 10/07/2014 8:20:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: SoConPubbie
" U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called Monday for amending the U.S. Constitution to ... "

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

44 posted on 10/07/2014 8:21:40 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: ScottinVA

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.


45 posted on 10/07/2014 8:24:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A better stand would be our feet planted firmly, a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other.

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 ...

46 posted on 10/07/2014 8:26:49 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: knarf
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


You fight evil when and where you find it.

You don't make excuses for not fighting it.

You might as well just sit in the corner and gripe otherwise for all the good you will do.
47 posted on 10/07/2014 8:49:58 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: ScottinVA; Responsibility2nd
I wish I could agree on that point, but the facts say otherwise.

http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/domestic-issues/attitudes-on-gay-marriage/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/169640/sex-marriage-support-reaches-new-high.aspx


At least two of those polls historically skew way left-wing and really cannot be trusted for anything more than propaganda and bird-cage liner, the other one, I have no idea as to the quality of their polling.
48 posted on 10/07/2014 8:52:06 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: knarf
It's too bad your post will fall on deaf ears.

Giving the government dominion over marriage is why marriage doesn't mean anything anymore.

Marriage belongs to the church. The government should recognize contracts.

It's a state issue. Plain and simple. Ted is wrong on this and the Supreme Court is wrong to overturn state's ban on gay marriages.
49 posted on 10/07/2014 8:53:08 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: randomhero97

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.


50 posted on 10/07/2014 8:55:48 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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“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.


51 posted on 10/07/2014 8:56:57 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: randomhero97

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.


52 posted on 10/07/2014 8:58:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
How did I contradict myself when I said marriage belongs to the church and the government should recognize contracts?

When two people join in a union, it's essentially a binding contract. That's what the government should recognize.

Why is marriage a state and federal concern? Why does this issue take priority over all the other issues that the People are getting screwed on?
53 posted on 10/07/2014 9:03:53 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: ScottinVA

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.


54 posted on 10/07/2014 9:07:54 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: randomhero97

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?


55 posted on 10/07/2014 9:13:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"No, you are wrong. Marriage clearly is a State AND Federal concern."

ONLY so far as protecting the state from having inbreds and diseased people multiplying and ultimately becoming a burden to the taxpayer

56 posted on 10/07/2014 10:06:02 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Thank You, Ted Cruz!


57 posted on 10/07/2014 10:08:31 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Colleen Hufford, American. We will never forget.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Why amend the US Constitution when 10A is already in place?

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.

58 posted on 10/07/2014 10:21:37 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala; demshateGod; Paine in the Neck

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.


59 posted on 10/07/2014 10:29:07 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: SoConPubbie
GO TED..GOTTA LOVE THAT MAN!!!!! Yes, the men will be few but strong, the boys will squeal, squawk and do NOTHING!!!

VOTE THE BOYS OUT!!!

60 posted on 10/07/2014 11:08:01 AM PDT by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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