Posted on 05/26/2014 6:02:04 PM PDT by Morgana
Hear that Rand Paul supporters?
...and I like Rand Paul...
Some here get it wrong - Paul wants the STATES to decide which is exactly where this issue belongs because federal interference is flat-out unconstitutional.
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Too bad that Paul isn’t running for governor of a state, he is running for president, the federal government, so you can drop that phony fig leaf, as can the weaselly Rand Paul.
Gay marriage and abortion have a huge presence in federal law.
Gay marriage from the military to federal employment, to immigration and foreign policy and at the U.N., and abortion in federal hospitals and on military bases and in foreign policy and at the U.N..
The president and the federal government have great public influence on these issues, when FBI men and the Military have gay marriage nationally, then the argument among the voters of individual states is close to over.
We’ve only “lost” to the extent that we surrender.
Like abortion, same sex marriage is purely the result of judicial activism. Unlike abortion, entire states have approved traditional marriage by huge majorities only to have “judges” find in our constitution some right to same sex marriage, and that without a shred of historical approval of same sex marriage anywhere at any time.
So, judges have intentionally overturned the will of the people with some nonsense about equality under the law, although even they won’t (yet) say that a man can marry multiple wives, a sibling, a parent, a cow, a computer, a car, etc.
Politically, this is so. However, it seems to me that culturally, the mass of the people are in denial. They carry on with weddings and marriages as if nothing has changed. So, you could say we are entering an interesting phase.
“Gay marriage” is an attempted coup d’etat against God, against nature, and against We the People of the United States. I assure you that neither God nor nature will be overthrown. The only question is whether the American people will allow themselves to be overthrown by lawless judges and their supine enablers in the other two branches. The verdict is still out.
That is a slick way to try to conceal Paul's real positions on abortion and gay marriage and social conservatism.
Rand Paul has come out as not supporting the GOP pro-life position because it is too strict, and he has called for the GOP to drop opposing gay marriage and promoting social conservatism to, "grow the party".
Good article. BTTT.
States decide “Cousins Marriage”, big difference between some states. I agree with you. States have long regulated marriage down to the County Clerk.
In general people follow the crowd.
As long as there is plenty of support for something they personally believe then they can continue supporting it, but once they come to think that the majority disagrees with their position, then their own opposition collapses and they join the crowd.
People can endure public pressure to hold on to possessions like their money, or their guns, or cars, but they are weak in holding on to their social issues like drugs, porn, gay issues, people don’t like to be ‘uncool’.
When conservatives control congress, they need to do a systematic reorganizations of the federal judiciary at several levels, one part of which would be the purging of judges with activist leanings.
Fortunately, right now many of them have made themselves known. Overruling voter referendums, effectively pardoning savage murderers, releasing pedophiles with a slap on the wrist, and generating decisions invariably overturned on appeal for mistakes law students wouldn’t make.
Quite a list of those who should be put out to pasture.
Why does the Feds want to promote a lifestyle that shortens lives and destroys health so dramatically.
Pray America wakes up
Once the public at large sees the social, moral and economic effects of gay marriage on the 19 states that have gay marriage, the people, the politicians and even the courts will turn away from gay marriage.
I certainly hope these scoundrels, the judges you reference, can be tossed out on their ears would be preferable. I hope the law can do this because some of what has been ruled on is absolutely obscene and we would not be putting up with so much of this if not for these men and women in black robes.
That’s right. As the Tenth Amendment confirms, if it’s not expressly delegated to the feds by the Constitution, it’s an issue that belongs to the states and the people respectively.
Marriage also has a place in federal law, that is why the continental congress, and then the Congress was passing law related to marriage in 1780, 1894, 1798, and 1802, and so on, and is how President Obama has made such major rulings on gay marriage at the federal level.
That is why Rand Paul has become more open about his indifference to gay marriage and social issues, and abortion, as he runs to take Obama’s place.
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