Posted on 05/23/2011 2:46:51 PM PDT by NYer
May 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For two years now, I’ve warned that the drive for so-called “gay marriage” was the greatest threat to religious liberty we’ve ever faced. But I think I may have underestimated the threat, because now I fear the democratic process and the rule of law are endangered as well.
It was bad enough when the President and the Attorney General declared the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and would not defend the law of the land in court. Never mind that the DOMA was signed by President Clinton in 1996 after the Senate passed it 85-15 and the House by a margin of 342 to 66!
But after the House of Representatives hired the law firm of King and Spalding to represent DOMA in court (since the executive branch wouldn’t), something not-so-funny happened. Gay-rights groups threatened King and Spalding and its commercial clients with boycotts.
In an ethically questionable action, at least under the canon of legal ethics, King and Spalding caved and told the House it would not represent it after all. Instead of criticizing King and Spalding, the media celebrated this as recognition that opposing gay marriage is tantamount to bigotry.
To his credit, lead attorney on the case, Paul Clement, resigned from King and Spalding and will defend DOMA with another law firm. Clement got it right when he said, “When it comes to the lawyers, the surest way to be on the wrong side of history is to abandon a client in the face of hostile criticism.”
But hostile criticism and boycotts are one thing. Ignoring federal law is another. Case in point: The Obama administration stopped the deportation order for a gay immigrant because the Justice Department feels that the man could be considered a spouse of another man under U.S. immigration laws. This, of course, is nonsense, because under DOMA, the federal government can’t recognize same-sex marriages. But evidently, the law, the will of Congress, and the will of the people don’t matter anymore in the Obama White House—if the issue at hand is so-called gay “marriage.”
And now the head of Navy chaplains has issued a memo that would permit Navy chaplains to perform gay “marriage” ceremonies in states that permit so-called same-sex “marriage.” (That order has since been rescinded.)
The problem with that, of course, as Tom McClusky at the Family Research Council pointed out, is that Navy chaplains are federal employees, and Navy chapels are federal facilities. Performing same-sex marriage ceremonies would violate DOMA.
But, as McClusky said, “When you have a president who doesn’t believe the Defense of Marriage Act is a law he needs to follow, it’s no surprise that the military would follow his lead.”
No surprise, but horribly dangerous. So-called gay “marriage” was rejected in all 31 states where the people got to vote! So the gay-rights groups, so far, are carrying the day by doing an end-run around the people, taking their case to the courts, coercing corporations, and now law firms, and finding a willing accomplice to their un-democratic schemes in the White House.
I can’t say this forcefully or clearly enough: Wake up, America! When the executive branch of government rules by fiat and chooses not to enforce the law of the land, the democratic process and the consent of the governed are no longer possible.
Catholic ping!
Let NYS Governor Cuomo know that if he supports gay marriage, he should put it on the ballot and let the citizens decide ... not him!
You know things are out of control when schools start teaching kids that homosexuality is an okay thing, something to be embraced, even encouraged.
It is the basic fight bteween good and evil.
Between morality and decadence.
Between common sense and a civilization in decline.
Between what is right and wrong.
Between whar is decent and what is hedonist.
You know things are out of control when schools start teaching kids that homosexuality is an okay thing, something to be embraced, even encouraged.
It is the basic fight between good and evil.
Between morality and decadence.
Between common sense and a civilization in decline.
Between what is right and wrong.
Between whar is decent and what is hedonist.
Of course it is....because it undermines the laws of nature and God’s laws—the basis of our legal system and Constitution.
Natural Law and Just Law cannot condone laws that go against the natural design of man and woman....this is the fundamental laws that were espoused by John Locke and Blackstone and all the Enlightenment thinkers.
Thomas Reid another very influential person to the Founder’s philosophy, would state it goes against Common Sense. We can never have laws that go against nature and common sense....we will get arbitrary law base on whim and emotion—not based in reason and logic.
Only rational laws (which homosexual marriage could never be) can create a flourishing, productive, free society.
Homosexual marriage also takes away the natural rights of children to be raised by their biological mother and father....an idea because of private property rights and biology rights—has to be promoted in a rational society.
Homosexual marriage will destroy natural rights of children which is guaranteed in the Constitution and can NEVER be voted away by the States—they are inalienable rights.....That means they can NEVER BE DENIED!!!! Not by arbitrary law, not by majority vote, not by some perverted judge.
We will have an irrational government based on Marxist ideology that there is no difference between a man and woman (they are interchangeable) which is patently false.....to make accommodations to law for the laws of nature is what our Constitution is designed to do—that is why women are not in combat—(except the Marxists are trying to destroy the concept of motherhood and woman and marriage so they are trying to condition men into not being protectors of women and children—they want to condition men to thinking there is no difference, so they can kill them on the battlefield with ease).
Marxism denies the Truth and Natural Law which is why it always fails and is so evil....they try to redesign man into their godless image. They don’t accept that there is a specific design for woman and man by God—something that can be easily proved in a biology class. Happiness is reliant on the natural family and when that institution fails....then it is the children who become dysfunctional and criminal. Lenin understood that and destroyed the marriage contract in the 20’s and instituted daycare to brainwash the children. Brainwashing is essential to Marxism because it goes against logic and reason and Natural Law and they are pushing perversion to destroy the pillar of Western Civilization.
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