Posted on 06/26/2015 7:10:25 PM PDT by NYer
Most were not surprised by the Supreme Court decision today. Court watchers who had attended the hearings earlier this year were rather certain that the mood of the court was to find a constitutional right to marriage and extend it to those with same-sex attraction.
I am not a lawyer and will not therefore speak to the legal demerits of this decision. Others, including the minority on the Court, can speak to that.
But as a citizen I wonder how we have come to a place in our legal and legislative system where unelected judges for life, who in effect answer to no one, can make such increasingly common and sweeping decisions regarding basic human institutions.
Increasingly in our nation, many are beginning to feel quite powerless over the most basic aspects of their life. Governmental decisions in both the executive and judicial branches of government are eclipsing and overruling plebiscites and laws crafted by and enacted by elected legislators, who are answerable to the American people. Judges are imposing, often at brisk speed, sweeping changes with little opportunity for appeal or redress. The wide use of executive power by presidents has also become wide and sweeping in the same matters.
The balance of power has shifted dramatically toward the judicial branch and judges who “know better” than the American people or their elected legislators.
Clearly there's a place for judicial review of laws and policies. But it's increasingly evident that the judicial activism of recent decades is way out of balance.
Sadly, both conservatives and liberals have often had recourse to courts for matters that really should have been handled in the giveand-take of the legislative process. Too many people have preferred to gamble with judicial fiats, rather than building political consensus.
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Catholic ping!
A one or two percent segment of our population is turning the country upside down.
No, it’s the 97 or 98 percent who sit on the sidelines and don’t care who are turning our country upside down.
Not actually. The sexual degenerates are being used by the father of lies to destroy a major obstacle for his planned global rule. The Vatican will be of great help with this, especially given the current head of that religion.
We seem to be approaching “Soviet America”, instead of communism it’s “progressivism”.
Then a knock on the door from the DoJ.
The question is, will the LGBT Mafia test the mosques?
Of course not. They like living.
They know Jews and Christians won't harm them no matter what they do.
“Il Papa” has buttered your church’s bread for the time being....wifey, being a devout Catholic, is quite dismayed.
In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.
Only a matter of time before that will change. How soon? We shall soon see.
Then come the bullets.
Um, that is not true. IF any degenerate in any way affects or infects my grandchildren, they will die violently. It will be execution, not murder.
Polygamy, here we come!
Pederasty is the next stop.
Beyond that, marry your dog!
And just to clarify, the Rapture is close at hand. These sexual degenerates will not be leaving and will be here for the Islamic blood-lusting demons to prey upon, deservedly. God mocking is a really stupid and evil thing to do. They will find He repays.
If a church accepts the tax free status “gift” offered by the government, they will always be under the control of that same government.
I belong to a church that has never applied for nor accepted that tax free status. We are a government free zone. Our pastor can preach what he wants, without restrictions, be it religion or politics.
Our parishioners know that any money they contribute to the church cannot be declared as a tax-deductible contribution for any reason.
Yet, with all these warnings, our church continues to grow.
Maybe that needs to change.
Are you awake? Can you see what is happening on this planet in preparation for the revealing of the lawless one?
That’s going to change.
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