Posted on 05/20/2008 9:12:13 AM PDT by porgygirl
Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it--you won't see a right to gay marriage in there. It is simply not an enumerated right, nor is it a right that can be clearly derived from other enumerated rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
Judges: “Constitution, we don’t need no stinking Constitution.”
That, and the 5th Commandment reads:
“Honor thy Father and thy Mother.”
Not “thy Father and thy other Father.” Nor “thy Mother and thy other Mother.”
Judges: The U.S. Constitution is a living document, and we can kill it.
You know there is a reason the state is involved in marriage (licenses, divorce courts etc.). None of those reasons apply in even the smallest way to any sort of relationship between two men.
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It is the essence of democracy that people should be able to decide the moral rules that govern the nature of a community. If people don't have that power, then they are living under an autocracy.No, Mr. D'Souza. If the people don't have the power to legislate other people's morality, that is called "liberty."
Dinesh D'Souza wrote a book in which he claimed that the Islamists would stop attacking us if we would just put our women in burkas and stop drinking alcohol. This article is a continuation of that argument.
California is an evolving Marxist, statist regime in our midst, and this ruling only solidifies the trend.
Haven’t they been around all through history and in all societies?
Somebody paid Dinesh D'Appeaser to write this tripe? With actual money?
It is plain to see that there is nothing in the law or the constitution that would lead the judges to conclude that homosexual marriage must be the public policy of the state of Calif. They made up a new right to same sex marriage.
And it’s plain to see that whether to have homosexual marriage is a POLICY judgement, not a CIVIL RIGHTS judgement.
Decisions like this can, over time, erode public confidence in law and order and the judicial system, because the decision is so obviously not based on interpreting the existing law and constitution.
Then you could argue, why even have a legislature, why have the provision for public votes through initiatives, and why have a governor? Since judges are just going to make decisions anyway, all we need are judges.
And this case and similar cases show that all you have to do to side step the legislative process is make something a civil right, gets judges to agree, and your policy becomes the law of the land.
We’re having an ongoing debate in the pres. campaign about universal health insurance. Can you imagine somebody will be inspired to file a lawsuit, and get a judge to declare that healthcare is a civil right? Suppose somebody gets inspired to file lawsuits about the environment and global warming, and get a judge to find a civil rights violation somewhere? Then the matter is under the jurisdiction of courts, not the legislative process.
This case has ramifications beyond homosexual marriage and homosexual civil rights, because of the absurd legal reasoning used to reach the conclusion.
Dinesh, you miserable little jackass, rights don't COME FROM the Constitution, they are GUARANTEED BY the Constitution. Rights COME FROM the simple fact of existence. They're inherent, inalienable.
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”
- US Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Free people have the fundamental right to whatever familial and financial arrangements best suit their desires and happiness.
What they don't have a right to is the legal recognition and acceptance of such arrangements and the accrual of legal benefits as a result of that recognition. What they don't have a right to is changing the law by changing the meaning of a word, rather than changing it through the legislative process.
Yep, you’re right.
That is such a great line, and such a great summary. You are awarded the "best line of the day" award so far as I'm concerned.
Excellent. Thanks.
Our Constitution never refers to the Bible.
Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it—you won’t see a right to gay marriage in there. It is simply not an enumerated right, nor is it a right that can be clearly derived from other enumerated rights
So what?
You can do all those things and not find the section that claims seperation of Church and State either yet our Politicians and Media hold that as a sacred truth
You will not find the right to kill your unborn baby, but our Politicians and Media hold that out as a Constitutional right
You will not find the section that denies your right a firearm if you ive in Washington DC as compared to Sweetwater Texas either. Yet our Polticians and Media seem to see that.....
As long as cizens allow these epopel to see the Constitution in whatever political agenda tyhey need to see it to cow tow to some political group then we will continue to see our Constitution eroded.
From what I have read, yes, most all societies.
They have also been treated as the deviates they are, hence they stayed in the "closet".
Is it normal for you to tell perfect strangers that you are heterosexual? (providing you are) Or, are your sexual preferences something that is no ones business but yours?
I don't give a damned if you (anyone) is queer. Once I know, I will avoid that person, as I would any leaper.
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