Posted on 12/12/2013 6:50:05 PM PST by ReformationFan
Yes. But they’re not all that approval-demanding, irritating and punitive. Really, I think the fairly low-key ones outnumber the obnoxious ones, just like the general swath of people at, say, Free Republic.
State governments have the 10th Amendment-protected power to establish gay rights, such as gay marriage, as long as such rights don’t interfere with constitutionally enumerated rights, Section 1 of the 14th Amendment prohibiting the states from unreasonably abridging constitutonally protected rights.
On the other hand, the federal government can only protect those rights which the states have expressly protected by the Constitution. This is evidenced by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment in conjunction with Section 5 of that amendment.
Also note that the four voting rights amendments, the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments, expressly grant Congress the power to legislatively protect such rights.
Again, the states have 10th Amendment authority to establish rights as long as such rights don’t interefere with constitutonal rights. But Congress is limited to protecting only those rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect imo.
Finally, just as corrupt federal lawmakers buy votes from low-information voters by promising such voters federal spending programs which are based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers, Obamacare an example, Congress likewise buys votes from such voters by promising them “civil rights” which Congress has no constitutional authority to establish. And Congress gets away with doing such things because many patriots themselves evidently don’t know the simple rules of the Constitution.
Sadly, the obnoxious ones are getting their way through the government to persecute those of us who dare to belief in liberty of conscience, a true and natural right.
Placemark
Exactly true. Very dangerous, court-enforced tyranny.
“Is that our future?”
Truth.
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