Ted Cruz submits constitutional amendment to protect marriage

Senator Ted Cruz has submitted legislation to create a constitutional amendment to allow states to determine what marriage is, and not federal judges.

Days before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on same-sex marriage, Senator Ted Cruz has filed two bills to protect states that bar gay couples from marrying.

Cruz's legislation would establish a constitutional amendment shielding states that define marriage as between one woman and one man from legal action, according to bill language obtained by Bloomberg News.

A second bill would bar federal courts from further weighing in on the marriage issue until such an amendment is adopted.

You know, nearly all the the candidates running for president say that marriage should be decided by the states. That's an easy way of saying nothing of substance. Since federal judges have taken away the states' ability to decide what is and isn't marriage, saying you favor "the states deciding" doesn't change the reality of what is about to happen: as most people expect, the Supreme Court will legalize gay marriage throughout the country. (My personal prediction, as an attorney who watches these things: it will be a 6-3 vote, with John Roberts siding with Anthony Kennedy and the liberals because he wants to be on the winning side.)

.....” involving bringing more foreigners..... until the US, until we stabilize the US population and get it back to work”.....

Where have you been?......There is no “stabilizing” the US population other than increasing it by those very foreigners that the door is open for them to come in. Now that's the reality of the situation and it's not going change by any new President.

You and I and everyone else are going to be up against foreign workers like it or not...because our Government operates on an International Agenda, not just regarding our nation, and for that must do so in the arena of the Global Agenda. That means North America is A trading block being “transformed” to accommodate the planned free-flow of workers across borders....just as in Europe where each nation retains it's sovereignty but the borders are open.

You need to remember the nation we all once new is not coming back as we've known it to be....the Global Agenda is way too far ahead and running to stop it now. So whoever makes it to Washington is going to have to play on that stage as well as for our nation...and deal accordingly.

I really, really wish this was not so....and it's taken me a long time to see and accept certain things are not going to be as they were regarding our wages nor our employment here. ...the re-distribution of nations work forces is going to continue.

It is not sniping to demand pols want to STOP and REVERSE the invasion of the US. It's the primary issue for saving the nation. If the GOP puppetmasters don't get on board, there won't be a Republican Party. The party is on borrowed time after the Cocharan outrage. Conservatives gave the party enough rope....they're using it to hang themselves.

Can't argue with any of that - I am in MS and still angry over the Cochran deal. The thing is, we can affect who gets into the WH as a National movement - keeping Dems out should be the priority even if we have to settle - anyone who really believes Romney would have been every bit as bad as Obama is just making excuses to rationalize allowing Obama's second term. We have to get active with time and money to try to affect individual States (much more difficult than affecting the WH) and try to turn a few more into friendlier territories. Most of my posts are designed to keep people thinking ("stirring the pot" is a valid interpretation) in the hopes we will have someone come up with a plan of action/attack that has a chance of actually turning things around even though it will take a long time to actually start reaping positive benefits. For me, minimizing the damage as we go is an important part if we are to ever get it turned around in a sustainable fashion.

I realize my pot-stirring rubs many the wrong way, but the responses it elicits also says that at least folks are looking at more than one or two "litmus" items and may be able to focus on the truly big picture. Everyone who has a single litmus item ignores a host of other issues and when a number of "singular" litmus items are spread out, the net effect is that we hurt ourselves worse than we hurt the Left - we have to stop doing that.

Cruz exhibits true leadership qualities. Walker also has a lot of good attribute. To attack them without having a superior option does not make sense - it plays right into the Left's hands.

There is no easy solution. No panacea and no singular event that can save our Freedoms - it will be a protracted battle and we need to either suit up and show up for the long term or break out the white flags and start practicing bowing and scraping while not making eye contact with our overlords.

Instead of a bunch of folks leaning on numerous philosophies, we need to find some sort of common ground to set as a foundation - until then, chaos will reign and the Left will prevail.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. While it's nice to try to make everyone on one's own side of the aisle happy, rubbing a few raw spots here and there helps ensure that the juices keep flowing (even if I become a target of some folks wrath) and prods folks to react/respond which means they can widen their focus to see more of the picture. It may cause hard feelings, but most of us can get over that and keep thinking of ways to become an efficient unit with a single purpose via numerous individual battles. I await more leaders who can inspire us like a Cruz does to many and a Walker does to others. I don't pretend to be such a leader - I'm just a lowly but dedicated pot stirrer....

I'm just a lowly and dedicated pot stirrer

That's all fine. Where I sit, pretty close to the line between livable and unlivable, I have to say there won't be anything left to save if those non-assimilated populations don't shrink in size. Can't imagine what happens when the growing unassimilated Hispanic community is at odds and too close in proximity to the fragile black neighborhoods.

I see the potential for collapse of civil order, probably from some unpredicted event or from one of these allowed protests getting beyond the control of anyone. It might only take a random shooting or beatdown.

Then it won't matter who's in DC. That's why stopping and reversing the invasion of the US is the ONLY issue. It's the only way to prevent the scenario I presented from happening. And if it does, we need to be more concerned about things functioning on the state and local level. It won't matter who's in DC. That's why I don't care what party wins the presidency if we don't have a candidate who vows to stop and reverse the invasion of the US.

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