Posted on 07/03/2015 11:58:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s July 4, and you’re not very happy with your country.
Specifically, you’re unhappy with your country’s Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the marriages of same-sex couples shall be legal in every state.
Your bible tells you – and a lot of others – that homosexuality is a sin, and that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The justices – five of them, at least – believe the Constitution says otherwise.
What can you do?
You can believe the Court made a mistake, of course, and others should respect your right to those beliefs – even when they disagree.
You can argue – out loud – that your government shouldn’t recognize non-traditional marriage. But you should expect people to disagree just as loudly, because the free speech principles that give voice to your beliefs also apply to those who think you’re wrong.
You can even decide, as some public officials have, that if your job requires you to accommodate homosexuality and your beliefs require otherwise, you need another job.
Or you can go a step further.
Like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who stepped in front of every camera he could find this week to call the Supreme Court justices “lawless” and advocate removing them by imposing term limits.
Like Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who also declared the Court was “lawless” before providing public officials in his state a roadmap to how they might defy the same-sex ruling and keep their jobs.
Like the Alabama Supreme Court, which told state officials and judges that it would take 25 days to consider what to do with the Supreme Court ruling – as if there were other options besides “obey it.”
You should know that for all of them, and for all states that try to dodge the same-sex decision, that this is a losing fight.
You should remember that there was similar anger, and similar defiance, when the Court ruled against segregation more than a half-century ago.
In Virginia, it was called the “massive resistance.” In Alabama, it was the “stand in the schoolhouse door.”
And although vestiges of that defiance remain, it ultimately was harmful, economically and otherwise, to the states that endorsed it.
That will be true today, as well. Because the laws that courts affirm serve not only to protect us from the actions of others. They also frame what is culturally and socially acceptable.
That’s what the Supreme Court did when it ruled that blacks deserved equal treatment a half-century ago. It’s what the Court did again when it ruled that homosexuals deserved equality in marriage.
With each decision, the justices moved those who condemned blacks and gays further to the fringe. The same will be true for states that try to legislate their way around the same-sex marriage ruling.
This is the path our country always takes with minorities, even those the framers shunned. Slowly, but eventually, they become equals in the government’s eyes – and most of our eyes, too.
That, by the way, is part of what we celebrate today.
So you can believe the Supreme Court justices are activist or misguided. You can believe they’ve just sent America on a dangerous path.
But the Court gave us a reminder last week, as it often does.
You may be unhappy today with your country.
But it’s not your country. It belongs to all of us.
The government is not the country. When will they understand?
My country is just OK ...
The politicians runnin' it need to be replaced with men ... yes, I said it ... that have no idea or just a little bit of one, how to run a country, but know all about right and wrong, good and evil and have reared at least two boys and two girls and still married to their mother.
Race isn’t a mental disorder.
Homosexuality is.
Tolerating, accepting, celebrating, and promoting this unnatural, unhealthy, lonely, depressing lifestyle isn’t doing anyone, especially the homosexuals, any favors.
Well Mr. OngeWhoINeverHeardOf...
I am not unhappy with this country at all. I love it dearly.
I am, however, pretty disgusted with politicians and special interest groups.
Thanks for asking and have a happy and safe 4th. And bask in the 1st amendment while you are at it.
“But it’s not your country. It belongs to all of us.”
Actually, with this decision, the court ruled this country does not belong to all of us. Christians are excluded.
Racial segregation was about separating people based on skin color.
Yet the Left keeps trying to equate that with homosexuality. And they get away it. Unbelievable.
No, @sshole, its NOT a collective, and its NOT superior to the God-given Rights of The People INDIVIDUALLY.
DAMN you, Peter St. Onge, and your seditious lies!
“But it’s not your country. It belongs to all of us.”
In other words, “We won, you lost. Get used to it. So there! Nyah!”
No, my country does not belong to the faggies, even though right now it seems like the 2% do own the rest of us.
The solution is staring us in the face.
I love my country. It is the banner-phobic, homophilic, power-centric Federal Government that is in sore need of a tune-up, right down to the legislators on the Supreme Court.
Or so they claim.
Gotta love how the Left equates being Black to sodomy.
The solution to this is to push recognition of polygamy as being constitutionally required by Obergefell. Then do incest. The point is to so screw up civil marriage it no longer functions. Then people will see the value of the traditional one man, one woman marriage and perhaps we can then get a constitutional amendment. It will take 20 years, but in the meantime, they will be so busy dealing with the repercussion that they won’t be able to focus on eliminating the Christians, and Christians can keep on having Christian marriages while ignoring the chaos of civil marriage.
I love the country .. it’s the government and 50% of the population I despise.
A) There is nothing in the Constitution about marriage of any kind. Therefore, it is a right reserved to the states.
B) There is no right to marry, anywhere. There is “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. “Pursuit” is NOT the same as “attainment”.
C) The Court has created law out of nothing before that led to horrible results. Dred Scott, Griswald, Roe v. Wade, Kelo were among the worst. Roberts outdoes them all and will lead to the worst consequences.
D) Nullification may not work, but it is better than doing nothing and accepting the SCROTUM rulings.
E) Odd that the Law of the Land is used repeatedly to impose obedience; coming from the most lawless, renegade government in the history of the nation. OK, we’ll obey when he does (which isn’t going to happen anytime soon).
BTW, does anyone really believe we are the United States in anything except geography?
I put my little USA flag up before daybreak; thought about throwing it away, and then I thought of the men at Morristown and Valley Forge. They deserve better than this generation of Americans.
It comes under "full faith and credit" by which each state has to recognize the other's marriages, divorces, court proceedings. This flaw should have been mended years ago, but the American people don't like to amend the Constitution.
The other 98 percent is too uninformed and confused to figure out diddly squat.
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