Posted on 03/09/2016 5:07:21 AM PST by HomerBohn
On Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court rejected the US Supreme Court's marriage opinion and basically told them to take a hike in favor of following the Alabama Constitution and Alabama law.
On March 4, 2016, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered that all probate judges cease and desist in issuing marriage licenses to sodomies.
The court issued its 170-page ruling in favor of Petition for Mandamus by Liberty Counsel.
Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel said, "The ruling last year by the Alabama Supreme Court was historic, and is one of the most researched and well-reasoned opinions on marriage to be issued by any court in the country. Today's opinion by the Alabama Supreme Court calling the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage opinion 'illegitimate' will be remembered in history like the 'shot heard around the world."
"The Alabama Supreme Court has openly rejected the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 marriage opinion, labeling it 'illegitimate' and without legal or precedential authority. This is a clear victory for the rule of law and an historic decision by the Alabama Supreme Court. The Judgement makes permanent the Alabama Supreme Court's order prohibiting probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected the illegitimate opinion of five lawyers on the U.S. Supreme Court," added Staver.
Both Chief Justice Roy Moore and Justice Tom Parker criticized the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Oberkfell case.
"I agree with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts, and with Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, that the majority opinion in Obergefell has no basis in the law, history, or tradition of this country," wrote Moore. "Obergefell is an unconstitutional exercise of judicial authority that usurps the legislative prerogative of the states to regulate their own domestic policy. Additionally, Obergefell seriously jeopardizes the religious liberty guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
He then went on to call out the judiciary's tyranny in their opinion.
"Based upon arguments of 'love,' 'commitment,' and 'equal dignity' for same-sex couples, five lawyers, as Chief Justice Roberts so aptly describes the Obergefell majority, have declared a new social policy for the entire country," Chief Justice Moore added. "As the Chief Justice and Associate Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito eloquently and accurately demonstrate in their dissents, the majority opinion in Obergefell is an act of raw power with no ascertainable foundation in the Constitution itself. The majority presumed to legislate for the entire country under the guise of interpreting the Constitution."
"The Obergefell majority presumes to amend the United States Constitution to create a right stated nowhere therein," he concluded. "That is a lawless act."
Moore also referenced the framers of the Constitution in his remarks.
"I submit that our Founders knew a lot more about freedom than [Justice Kennedy's opinion] indicates," Moore wrote. "They secured the freedoms we enjoy, not in judicial decrees of newly discovered rights, but in the Constitution and amendments thereto. That a majority of the Court may identify an "injustice" that merits constitutional correction does not dispense with the means the Constitution has provided in Article V for its own amendment."
"Although the Court could suggest that the Constitution would benefit from a particular amendment, the Court does not possess the authority to insert the amendment into the Constitution by the vehicle of a Court opinion and then to demand compliance with it."
Indeed, our founding fathers dealt quite harshly with sodomites. They would never have allowed these people to have a voice in the political process, much less advance an agenda to sodomize America by perverting the definition of marriage.
Justice Moore then gave wise counsel to sodomites who claim that they can engage in sodomy and be dignified in marriage.
"Historically, consummation of a marriage always involved an act of sexual intimacy that was dignified in the eyes of the law. An act of sexual intimacy between two men or two women, by contrast, was considered 'an infamous crime against nature' and a 'disgrace to human nature.' Homosexuals who seek the dignity of marriage must first forsake the sexual habits that disqualify them from admission to that hallowed institution. Surely more dignity attaches to participation in a fundamental institution on the terms it prescribes than to an attempt to wrest its definition to serve inordinate lusts that demean its historic dignity."
Indeed, I wish more people understood that liberty is not the ability to do what the law condemns, but to do what is right before our Creator. May God bless the Alabama Supreme Court!
Matt Staver concluded, "Justices and judges are bound to interpret the U.S. Constitution. When they write opinions that have no legal foundation, then their opinions lack legal legitimacy. That is what the five lawyers did on the U.S. Supreme Court in the marriage opinion. They ignored the Constitution, the Court's precedents, and millennia of human history. Their opinion calls into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. When we the people lose trust in the Justices, the authority of the Supreme Court is undermined. If the people accept this 5-4 opinion, then we have transitioned to a despotic form of government. The people must now decide if we are governed by the rule of law or the whim of unelected judges."
Great. Time for states to take their rights back.
I understand where you’re coming from on this, but I honestly think that reconfirming justices via popular vote would simply lead to conservatives being ejected. The campaign to eject Scalia, for example, would have been vile and likely effective.
At no time did the founding fathers want our country ruled by a mob, and went to great lengths to create a government which wasn’t.
You can say that again.
This part of the article (below) is especially just wonderful! Thank you, Justice Moore:
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Justice Moore then gave wise counsel to sodomites who claim that they can engage in sodomy and be dignified in marriage.
“Historically, consummation of a marriage always involved an act of sexual intimacy that was dignified in the eyes of the law. An act of sexual intimacy between two men or two women, by contrast, was considered ‘an infamous crime against nature’ and a ‘disgrace to human nature.’ Homosexuals who seek the dignity of marriage must first forsake the sexual habits that disqualify them from admission to that hallowed institution. Surely more dignity attaches to participation in a fundamental institution on the terms it prescribes than to an attempt to wrest its definition to serve inordinate lusts that demean its historic dignity.”
Indeed, I wish more people understood that liberty is not the ability to do what the law condemns, but to do what is right before our Creator. May God bless the Alabama Supreme Court!
This is so friggin AWESOME!!
I’m SHOCKED this isn’t front page news. WAY TO GO ALABAMA. It’s time someone call out these activists for legislating from the bench.
The order dismisses "all pending motions and petitions" -- and those pending motions and petitions sought to have the Alabama Supreme Court defy Obergefell and grant relief from having to issue gay marriage certificates.
Everything written after the simple statement of dismissal consists simply of concurrences in the dismissal by several individual justices. Moore's lengthy concurrence makes it confusing, because he goes to great lengths to express his vehement disagreement with Obergefell, and at the end states his belief that the March 2015 order upholding the constitutionality of the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment and the Alabama Marriage Protection Act still stands. Then he immediately (and even more confusingly) states that he concurs in the dismissal.
The concurrence by Justice Stuart on the following page (p. 106) lets one know what the upshot is of Moore's confusing concurrence/dissent/whatever you want to call it:
Motions and petitions are dismissed without explanation by this Court for numerous reasons as a matter of routine. When a Justice issues a writing concurring in or dissenting from an order summarily dismissing a pending motion or petition the writing expresses the explanation for the vote of only the Justice who issues the writing and of any Justice who joins the writing. Attributing the reasoning and explanation in a special concurrence or a dissent to a Justice who did not issue or join the writing is erroneous and unjust.Bottom line: Moore is speaking for himself, and the petitioners do not get a declaration that the March 2015 order affords them relief from having to grant gay marriage licenses. That order, as Justice Shaw makes clear in his concurrence (p. 146), "no longer has a field of operation or any legal effect."
Carry on.
“makes homosexuality and lesbianism appear unwholesome.”
Appearances be damned, it is an abomination period.
It’s about time a state government stood up to the federal homosexual mafia led by Obama himself.
Liberals are always telling us that the constitution is a living, flexible document that can mean anything until they get a verdict that they like, which they suddenly say the rule is in affect forever.
About time they got some much needed push back.
Good to read. Now, if they’d follow suite vs. O’Care, BLM, 2nd Amendment....
Ping for later
See my #29.
Its time we take our freedom back. Thank you Alabama SC !
Please communicate in non-legal terms for those of us who don’t know legal context. Thanks.
But what do I know? I'm only an attorney.
“But what do I know? I’m only an attorney. “
Which is why we have courts...no two attorneys can agree on anything, much less what the law says.
10th Amendment how it was meant to be interpreted.
What you claim is on page 106 isn’t on that page. It is on page 107.
Page 106:
“As stated at the beginning of this special concurrence,
the certificate of judgment in this case does not disturb the March 2015 orders of this Court that uphold the
constitutionality of the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment and
the Alabama Marriage Protection Act. For that reason, as
explained above, I concur.”
I commend the Alabama Supreme Court for taking a stand against the tyranny of state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
On the other hand, the chain of events leading to the Alabama Supreme Court’s action possibly would never have happened if parents were making sure that their children were being taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, particularly 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty.
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