Well, we’re pretty close. In political and national legal matters, it is always important IMO to start with the Constitution because it is the Law of the Land, the Rule of Law that is the ONLY legal bulwark of freedom against the tyranny of the Rule of Man, which is where the Left has taken and continues to take us.
I argue whenever and wherever I can that the unconstitutional portion of the $4 trillion federal government must be shut down. This would be a monumental task, probably 80% or more of the feds gone and probably hundreds of thousands of government officials, department and bureaucratic heads, and government workers sent home packing with no job.
It is what needs to happen, but who is going to force it to happen? The odds against the feds willingly committing virtual suicide is remote at best. It would take a miracle from the hand of God. That is not out of the question, IMO, because America itself and its origins, continuance, and success are miracles from God’s gracious hand.
But barring a miracle, more likely individual states are going to have to decide whether they will continue down the road to tyranny and serfdom (as Hayek put it). Those states that choose not to go down that road must begin nullifying unconstitutional federal acts after review in the state legislatures and/or state courts.
It’s individual states circling the wagons recognizing that the feds have become the enemy of freedom, America, and it’s values. You can’t FORCE the feds to do anything if all three branches refuse to budge - the state of things as they are today. So the default is state supremacy rising up and rejecting unconstitutional federal acts because by definition, the feds have no legitimate right nor power to commit those unconstitutional acts or make those unconstitutional decisions.
In the case at hand, SCOTUS should NOT be hearing this gay marriage case because marriage is not an enumerated power delegated to them by the Constitution. So it is up to the states to assert adhesion to the Rule of Law of the Constitution and declare they reject unconstitutional federal acts and decisions like hearing and deciding regarding gay marriage (regardless of their ruling - it is not in their constitutional scope of power to hear the case AT ALL (other than to repeal lower federal court decisions and send the case back to the state where it originated)).
The Supremacy Clause and the Tenth Amendment and the whole Constitutional structure and presumption is on our side. It’s time.
I agree, Our states should thank the Federal Employees for their opinion before reminding them absence an Enumerated power on marriage their opinion is of no more consequence than that of any citizens opinion.
Any State or federal official who tries to enforce such an edict should be prosecuted and fired for unlawful behavior.
This is what Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and even Lincoln did, why shoulder we do the same? The only problem we have is the jackbooted traitors in the military who will uses force to impose their lawless edicts.
we must set forth on a path to destroy those jackboots both politically and physically no matter what else happens from their absence we cannot defend the forces of tyranny at home even if we were so at threat overseas as to require their unwavering defense(we are not at this time) what difference does it make when they have proven themselves the tools inclined to do just as much damage to our constitution and way of life in their lawless condition as any foreign enemy would?
A solder who is not an oath-keeper is no solder at all, but a traitor and threat to the very fabric of our republic in any significant numbers.