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Sotomayor: We’re not taking away your liberty, because we won’t force you to marry a gay person
LifeSiteNews ^ | 4/29/15 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 04/30/2015 8:55:52 AM PDT by BlatherNaut

One moment in the Supreme Court's oral arguments over same-sex “marriage” reveals what an embarrassment Sonia Sotomayor is as a justice.

John J. Bursch, who argued on behalf of marriage, said that the people, not five unelected justices, should be able to decide whether to redefine a pillar of society that predates the government and written history.

“This case isn't about how to define marriage,” he said. “It's about who gets to decide that question. Is it the people acting through the democratic process, or is it the federal courts? And we're asking you to affirm every individual's fundamental liberty interest in deciding the meaning of marriage.”

The “wise Latina” immediately interrupted him with the following non-sequitur:

“I'm sorry. Nobody is taking that [liberty] away from anybody. Every single individual in this society chooses, if they can, their sexual orientation, or who to marry or not marry. I suspect even with us giving gays rights to marry that there's some gay people who will choose not to.”

I'll pass over Sotomayor saying that “every single individual..chooses” his or her sexual preference. But don't miss the full illuminating brilliance of her argument: The Supreme Court is not trampling on the right of 50 million people in 35 states to settle their own law as long as straight people are not forced to “marry” homosexuals.

For Sotomayor, apparently anything short of judicially mandated sodomy is within the justices' constitutional prerogatives – a view that would surprise any of our nation's founding jurists, whether Jeffersonian or Hamiltonian.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; indiana; libertarians; marriage; medicalmarijuana; mikepence; rfra; samesex; scotus; soniasotomayor; sotomayor
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To: BlatherNaut

Sotoscarmeyer, how about reading the first amendment in its entirety please?
The supreme court does not exist to write law, but to make certain laws are constitutional.
And the first amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That means that anything forcing adherents of a religion to violate their conscience is wrong.


41 posted on 04/30/2015 9:27:06 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Hugs Steve!


42 posted on 04/30/2015 9:27:31 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

s/b “politician OR journalist” I hate my typos almost as much as I hate Obama.


43 posted on 04/30/2015 9:28:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Darksheare

100% correct Darksheare ... Homo is a religion.


44 posted on 04/30/2015 9:28:46 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: BlatherNaut

She is the farthest thing from an unbiased judge as you can get. Her mind was made up years ago.


45 posted on 04/30/2015 9:30:14 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: BlatherNaut

She is creating a more dangerous culture.

Not a peep at the court about the dangerous lifestyle of homosexuals.


46 posted on 04/30/2015 9:30:33 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BlatherNaut

Okay.

By that argument no one has taken away the liberty of homosexuals, either.

After all, they were never forced to marry normal people.


47 posted on 04/30/2015 9:31:22 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: xzins

danger is supported in all government functions, as is death, regrettably ....


48 posted on 04/30/2015 9:32:10 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: no-to-illegals

????

You’re going to have to expand on that one for me. I don’t follow it.


49 posted on 04/30/2015 9:32:54 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

the function of media is to cause bleeding ... the function of ‘modern’ government or our current government is to make Americans’ bleed.


50 posted on 04/30/2015 9:34:20 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: BlatherNaut

Don’t like killing Jews? Don’t work at Auschwitz.

Same argument.


51 posted on 04/30/2015 9:35:26 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: BlatherNaut

She claims this but they will try to force pastors to marry gays.

Not only that but I have heard a gay activist say that not participating in gay sex is anti gay bigotry.

So yea get ready for that evevtually when they get their way.


52 posted on 04/30/2015 9:37:16 AM PDT by Domandred (Tea Party or Third Party. Done with the capitulating eGOP.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

>>All I want is ONE liberal to explain to me if two consenting adults can be married regardless of their gender, then why can’t three consenting adults also be married?

I asked several Progs and they all told me that I was being silly because they don’t want that. I explained, “No. I want that. If 2 men can marry, why can’t I marry two women?”

They said that polygamy is wrong because it is unfair, but could not explain why.


53 posted on 04/30/2015 9:40:46 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: BlatherNaut

Wise-ass latina.


54 posted on 04/30/2015 9:45:31 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: xzins

same agenda as is forever the case before the war begins ... murder/killing will be the norm or one must pay to not see murder/killing of individuals or institutions .... An institution that has existed for forever is to be murdered/killed named marriage by the perversion. Once killed the institution the individual forever is the next to be murdered/killed .... the whipping boy/girl is left to wonder why ... and is called ‘struggle’ but the truth stared each of us in the face. Never can please them all and normally can never please any ....


55 posted on 04/30/2015 9:45:45 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: Bryanw92

Because they want us to be open-minded until they get what they want (or feeeeeeel that they want) and then they lock it tight - until the next time they want something. They don’t care about consequences (intended or otherwise), costs, or impact.

They are all emotionally-retarded children.


56 posted on 04/30/2015 9:48:55 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: BlatherNaut

Homosexual marriage is discrimination. Same-sex heterosexuals won’t be able to marry. People can’t marry their pets, or their cars. What if whole families want to marry each other? /s


57 posted on 04/30/2015 9:50:50 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: rockrr

exactly ... and is the reason that he/she whom votes is of no consequence ... only he/she whom counts the votes is ... The meaning of ‘IS’???


58 posted on 04/30/2015 9:51:52 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: BlatherNaut

With her and Kagan, Obama has appointed twin terrors who will be trouble for us for the next few decades. Imagine Hillary adding two or three more to the mix. *shudders*


59 posted on 04/30/2015 9:52:21 AM PDT by MarkRegal05
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To: MarkRegal05

Remember your vote does not count ... the media is in to announcements of who won ....


60 posted on 04/30/2015 9:53:32 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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