Posted on 02/19/2004 8:48:39 PM PST by Remember_Salamis
Where exactly *are* all those pre-election Arnie supporters who thought it was "chicken little" stuff to claim that if you elect a liberal governor that's what you get.
Hate to say I told ya so but.........
Why babble on when the facts alone will suffice?
Wrong. My state is next. New Mexico is in the news today. Clerk took it on her own to start issuing licenses.
From supreme court justice, to mayor, to clerk. What next? Will the dog catcher start issuing licenses in Podunk?
BUMP BTTT!
It would be great to see this one catch fire like the Ground Zero Memorial Petition.
BTW, What the hell does the mayor of SFO think he's doing anyway? Doesn't he know that the San Andreas fault runs right through his city? I'm not predicting anything, but if they were to get a major quake about now - think Sodom and Gomorrah.
My guess is that it would last all of a few hours at most.
Yet that is precisely the type of thing they are doing. Devaluing and ruining the currecny of real marriage by passing out counterfeits. And, IMHO, thr results will be far mor damaging and far reaching than those of counterfeit money if it is not stopped.
No hand wringing about that. He should be arrested for his actions as an elected official sworn to uphold the law and violating it. What happens in the trial comes later...the arrest should occur based on his actions but the pols do not have the cajones to simply do what is right. It is one of the principle problems besetting us as a people right now. They are too worried about "politics" and not worried about their duty or sworn oath and therefore there are no consequences for such actions which begets more and more of them.
Say all you wish about legalistic manuever...in the end, a horse theif is still a horse theif...so to speak.
You cannot sugarcoat a cow paddy and call it good.
Martyr? Hardly. An example of anarchy from the top down.
If there be any here who have reason to believe 'this man and this man, or this woman and this woman should not 'marry,' speak now or forever hold your peace.'
Thanks for the ping, Jeff.
Our nation was not designed to have myriad legal minds telling us the ins and outs of every jot and tittle of the law. it was designed for a people who governed themselves according to the moral value system that undergirded the whole.
When we lose that...the other becomes necessary in a vain effort to prevent what John Adams so clearly saw, again, in his words:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798What is happening in San Francisco is just one of many examples of just what Adams spoke to. What is happening in San Francisco is wrong both under the law and morally. When common sense, common decency and foundational morality take a tumble...and when they do it as a result of the free will choice of the people...then disaster (as respects our fondational liberties) lies not far in the future.
I hope and pray there are still officials who will respect these things and who will act out of a sense of what is right...both under the law, morally, and with respect to common sense.
We started on this path lon ago with the basic bnreak down of the moral fiber of this nation. Some say it started in the 60's...I believe it just got a big boost then. The forces of morality, common sense, deceny and truth on one side and immorality, depravity, hedonism, lies and all manner of worng doing on the other have always contended with one another. We found a constitutional system in this country, that was adopted by the free will of the citizens that enshrined the fomrer part of that equation in law and in freedom. We have faltered seriously from that. Abportion on demand is one of the clearest indicators and examples of it...and now this. I pray we can reverse the trend of its breakdown.
If we are to do so...it will not be by legalese or wrangling or any purely politcal mechanism...it will be by forthright defense and action that lays those considerations aside in defense of simply what is right...just like the events that brought it into being in the first place.
I pray we do not have to go to the same lengths. I believe there is yet time to avoid that.
You may disagree. That is fine and your right.
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