Ted Cruz: Gay Marriage Rulings 'Danger to Our Liberty'

newsmax ^ | 11 Mar 2015 02:59 PM | Andrea Billups

[SoConPubbie]

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lashed out at same-sex marriages Monday, telling radio station WHO that he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would allow individual states to ban such unions, The Huffington Post reported.

"We have seen judges, and especially the Supreme Court, ignoring the law," Cruz told WHO host Jan Mickelson.

"If the courts were following the Constitution, we shouldn't need a new amendment, but they are, as you put it quite rightly, 'making it up' right now and it's a real danger to our liberty," Cruz added.

Cruz has been both blunt and outspoken on what he describes as a national "assault" on traditional marriages. It is a social issue that sets him apart from others who may be pondering entering the 2016 GOP presidential field, the Des Moines Register noted.

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Cruz in February introduced legislation, the State Marriage Defense Act, that would keep the federal government from offering recognition of same-sex marriages in those states that continue to ban them. It has the support of 11 other senators.

"Even though the Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Windsor that the federal government should defer to state 'choices about who may be married,' the Obama administration has disregarded state marriage laws enacted by democratically-elected legislatures to uphold traditional marriage," Cruz said in a statement.

"I support traditional marriage and we should reject attempts by the Obama administration to force same-sex marriage on all 50 states. The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens."

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[SECURE AMERICA]

Mr. Cruz is correct. As our society slides down the shithole our freedoms and liberty will become victims also........

[Cboldt]

He's partly correct. The government as a whole is a danger to liberty. That Congress allows judges to remain on the bench, when said judges are making things up out of whole cloth, is a symptom too. Congress doesn't mind the judges stepping out of line, it takes the heat off Congress.

None of the institutions deserves respect, other than kind of respect the mafia deserves.

[Diogenesis]

Mr. Cruz is correct.
This began with Mr. RomneyCARE ignoring the
Mass Constitution (since he is an inveterate carpetbagger).

[Jim from C-Town]

When the DOMA was passed the Congress refused to attach a phrase that disallowed the SCOTUS and Courts to over turn it.. BY design.

The only alternative to this madness of never ending ‘discoveries’ of more and more ‘rights’ for Liberal mayhem is a Constitutional amendment to protect Marriage as a one man one woman contract. That is now almost certain to NOT happen.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder. No different than Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Clinical Depression, or Schizophrenia.

[Slyfox]

Cruzing for a bruzing

[eyeamok]

When the DOMA was passed the Congress refused to attach a phrase that disallowed the SCOTUS and Courts to over turn it.. BY design.

There you go, you just had to bring up article 3, section 2 of that ever so elusive Constitution I keep hearing about. Does it really exist? or was it just a dream for the last 200 years?

[eyeamok]

I heard an interview on the radio some years ago, can’t remember who but he said and listed the case that Congress has only exercised that section ONCE in the History of the US

[nonliberal]

Why should the government be involved in marriage?

[alloysteel]

What is popular or a fad at the moment is not always right, nor even in any way of long-term benefit, unless it be held up as a “horrible example”.

After all, who sits on flag poles or swallows goldfish any more? Who dances to disco or uses CB radios any more? And whatever happened to Cabbage Patch dolls, with their “birth certificates” and “adoption papers”?

[lormand]

I stand with Cruz!

[GeronL]

Bump!

[GeronL]

It was a civil matter during the days of the puritan colonies too. As a matter of fact civil marriage is what civilized humanity from the caves in the past 5,000 years.

[RicocheT]

Marriage laws were left to the states and the Constitution only set limited areas of power in establishing the federal government. Cruz is correct in pointing out that federal judges have simply made up so-called rights by stretching the equal protection clause, the 13th & 14th Amendments to ridiculous conclusions. Some states have done the same with their state constitutions. Now a cake baker can lose his business by declining an order from a gay and marriages are made between two or even three same sex people.

But, Cruz should not highlight his view as to marriages beyond pointing out the shaky constitutional decisions by liberal judges. The liberal press will harp on the gay stuff and overwhelm stupid voters with side issues so that Cruz’s good ideas on the economy, limited government, dump ObamaCare, etc. never see light.

[savagesusie]

Because our Constitution is based on Lockean philosophy of Natural Law theory and God’s Design of Natural Law (God’s Laws).

There are only Natural “Rights” from the Creator not from the State——and ALL positive law has to be in line with Natural Law, otherwise it is unjust law—(unconstitutional)-and goes against Natural Law and God’s Law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. destroyed “Rule of Law” (made it Rule of Man) when he was “Supreme Justice”. We have been living under fascism (unconstitutional laws ever since). Justice John Marshall stated that ALL unjust law is “null and void” and shouldn’t be obeyed and all judges had to declare them “null and void”. Our justices have been bribed or Marxists or dumb.

There is Universal Truth embedded in our “Justice” (virtue) System” and it is NOT based on satanic or muslim or hindu or pagan ethics of sodomy. To promote Vice in a “justice” system based on Christian Ethics like ours, is not only unconstitutional-—it is diabolical and will destroy “law” and civil society, since all Free Republics must Always promote “Justice” (public virtue). (Montesquieu).

The Lockean philosophy guarantees Natural Rights and all children have the Natural Right to be born in a system which allows them to be brought up by their biological parents, not bought and sold to the highest bidder. Biologica connection is important and Natural and why Marxists want it destroyed.

The Natural Family is the most conducive to well-being and emotional health of children. The Natural Duty of all human beings is to do their Natural Duty and raise and nurture any Natural offspring-—and Natural Law is the basis of our legal system.

[Regulator]

We have seen judges, and especially the Supreme Court, ignoring the law

Oh hell, here in California we saw the Governor and the Attorney General violating their oaths and ignoring the State Constitution, amended by popular vote.

Utterly beyond belief. And they got away with it.

[Amendment10]

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz … plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would allow individual states to ban such unions, ..."

The Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like marriage mean that such issues are automatically and uniquely state power issues. So I am concerned that Cruz’s suggestion for a constitutional marriage amendment which gives the states powers that they have already retained for themselves is seemingly trying to turn the Constitution into powers delegated to the states. The Founding States made the federal Constitution primarily to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

The Constitution would need to be amended to prohibit gay marriage in all states. I hope that’s what Cruz meant.

[Stepan12]

"We will sodomize your sons."

From the "Gay Revolutionary," quoted on the Senate floor

[tophat9000]

The heterosexual impulse is a a biological requirement of humanrace else it not reproduce.. therefor it has a rational basis and the state and the states laws must acknowledge it

Does the homosexual impulse have a rational basis equal in need?.. for the law to remain rational.. its can not logical content these two impulses are equal in weight .. and demand the state allocate resources equally to both...

it can say the state can not interfere with your choice.. but can not demand the state service all choices equally if both are not equal....

else, because if i drink water and your drink alcohol does the state if it provide a water fountains to drink from must also provide beer?......

A libertarian can argue against state prohibition.. but can not argue the state must must provide beer if it also provide water

they are not rationally equal and if the law if it is to remain rational can't contend they are

...self-evident truth must be serviced and acknowledged...else the foundation of the nation crumbles