Posted on 10/23/2014 9:14:56 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Bill Donohue calls for a constitutional marriage amendment:
In 2004, Barack Obama said, “I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about…I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation.” Four years later he commented, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”
God got thrown from the mix in 2012. That’s when President Obama, running for reelection, endorsed gay marriage. But even as late as last year, he was still on record respecting the religious rights of dissenters. “How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision [the Supreme Court's ruling overturning the Defense of Marriage Act]—which applies only to civil marriages—changes that.”
God got tossed again this week when Obama called for homosexual marriage to be recognized as a constitutional right. In doing so, he teed up a confrontation between our long-established constitutional right to religious liberty and this newly invented right to gay marriage.
Contrary to what many have said, this issue is not over. Were it not for unelected judges overturning the express will of the people—in state after state—attempts to subvert marriage, properly understood, would not have succeeded. We need to return power to the people by considering a constitutional amendment.
The time is ripe for Catholics to support the efforts of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the bishops’ point man on marriage. In February, he called for support of the federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
As any astute political science undergraduate knows, there is no constitutional right to gay marriage. But now that this issue has been thrust upon us by our constitutional law professor president, we need to affirm marriage between a man and a woman in the U.S. Constitution.
Sigh, I suppose you're right. Sad, innit?
I wouldn't want to be in THEIR shoes when they meed their Maker.
It was needed about 10 years ago but critics said it was not necessary. We had the DOMA. States had their rights.
What a joke that turned out to be.
Genitalia alone? Number of X vs Y chromosomes? Length of ring finger? Adam's apple? How you were born? How your genitals appear now? How you spell your name?
Tagline is the means; Ted Cruz has the right approach.
Just occurred to me that maybe Obama’s being blackmailed to issue those statements. Oh well, interesting to see how Kansas & South Carolina SSM appeals turn out, now that Puerto Rican judge has so pointedly ruled.
Unfortunately, too late. It would never pass.
In addition to that, we must as states, as local governments, within our churches and other groups, and as individuals resist unconstitutional actions by FedGov with such energy that freedom's enemies give up on their current lines of attack. The thugs will give up if it gets too hard. They'll launch a new and different attack, but even changing their mode of attack is a victory if we can deprive them of the current FedGov's power.
Which also means the amendment would be irrelevant if the majority of Americans had any morals. Legislation won't help. Changing hearts and minds will.
Homos have achieved the greatest propaganda success since the Third Reich Propaganda Ministry by using the same tools all propagandists use; such as semantics, sophism, soundbites, and repeating the big lie often enough until some people will begin to believe it’s the truth. A quote from Adolph Hitler : “The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.”
Since their is no rational justification for queernation or its defense of ‘alternative lifestyles’ the queer activists will always revert to allegations of ‘homophobia’ when they are faced with truth, facts, logic, or reason. When they are unable to defend their perverse views, it’s time to play the homophobia card!
(a Joker wearing makeup dressed in gay apparel?)
The average age a homosexual lives to is 46. Their destructive lifestyle of anal “intercourse” causes AIDs, anal cancer and a slew of other deadly diseases. Most lesbians are very overweight women that could not find a man in their younger days so they went looking for a woman to fill that void. The rate of alcoholism in both homosexual men and lesbian women are higher than the national average. The reason is obvious. They know their practice of sodomy is wrong so they drink away their true feelings. They are suffering from a mental and spiritual disorder that can be overcome if they give their lives to Christ. He is the answer. Instead of helping them overcome this affliction, the Federal Government closes it’s eyes and encourages this destructive behavior. They are treated like perfectly well adjusted members of society,
no different than anyone else and are now allowed to be “married” to other sufferers of this mental disorder. Instead of getting them help for their destructive behavior it is encouraged in all walks of society and if you dare voice your concerns you are immediately labeled a bigot. No news network stands up for marriage anymore, not even Fox News. They have all bought into the sodomite agenda.
DOMA was always intended to fail.
McCain and his ilk are responsible for killing the FMA by tacking on an ABSURD flag burning rider as a poison pill to protect DEMOCRATS!
Well said, Trebb.
Wrangling over this present darkness leads one to eventually cease “fighting the inevitable”.
INFORMATION OVERLOAD = PATTERN RECOGNITION
We finally see the patterns of fleshly futility. It may be dying time for us believers, once we start speaking to our world of the Cross of Christ. Offensive! The smell of Death! Yet a sweet smelling aroma to those who believe in His Name!
God is good. God is faithful. God is Humble. His Word will be done.
There has been no uproar amongst the churches...No uproar with the general population...Republicans won't even mess with this issue...
Yep I remember how even many conservatives at that time, said it was “premature” or “not needed” since laws already defined marriage.
The handwriting was on the wall even then, that the liberals would try to force this down our throats through the courts, but some said it was “premature” to work towards a marriage amendment then, because courts had not yet forced homosexual marriage on the country.
And now that homosexual marriage is being forced on the country, are any of those who said they opposed homosexual marriage but that an amendment was “premature” now working towards such an amendment??????
If you dare voice your concerns; you are immediately labeled a bigot. Worked well for the Third Reich, didn’t it?
Some radical judge in state after state overrules the will of the people AND ITS NEVER MENIONED ON FAUX NEWS!!! Fox has join the liberal media in their endorsement of sodomite “marriage”! No one fights for conservatives anymore. If a conservative was elected and would make defense of marriage a campaign promise he would get the nomination. The average American does not believe in two fags having anal sex redefining marriage. It’s ridiculous.
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