Posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sent cheers rippling through a group of protesters gathered outside the state capitol on Wednesday evening when she vetoed a controversial bill that would have protected business owners who cited their religious views in denying service to gays. Ohio spiked a similar measure on Wednesday. Kansas lawmakers created the same kind of firestorm earlier this month when the House passed a bill allowing private and public employees to refuse to serve same-sex couples (the state Senate later killed that measure).
And this could still be just the beginning.
These two high-profile legislative debates are just part of a budding trend across the nation, with states pushing measures that proponents call religious freedom bills but opponents label state-sanctioned discrimination.
Here are six related proposals getting less attention than the battles in Kansas and Arizona.
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The only exception to federal government not constitutionally allowed to interfere with a state's choices is the Fourteenth Amendment. It states, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The badly and hastily written Post-Civil-War 14th Amendment was aimed at doing away with “Jim Crow laws,” state-forced segregation of former slaves - blacks. The original intent of the Amendment, passed during Post Civil-War Reconstruction, was to put former slaves on equal legal footing with the rest of American citizens. This original intent was confirmed by SCOTUS in the 1873 Slaughterhouse cases.
However, in the 20th Century, activist courts seeking to enlarge government power have sought to continually expand the original intent of the amendment. But there are no constitutional grounds for these later decisions to break the Slaughterhouse precedent. The correct thing to do is overturn these later decisions on the basis of the Constitution and the stare decisis of Slaughterhouse. Until then, I think nullification on constitutional grounds is in order.
Therefore, the feds may interfere only if a state law (not individual action) requires racial (not gender or sodomite) segregation (not integration). There NOTHING in the Constitution to allow the federal government to force integration or to interfere with an individual's freedom to discriminate or choose.
I apologize for the ‘bracketing’ in my post!
Being new to the forum, I mistakenly used the common php way of quoting and highlighting.
I can find no way to edit after submitting?
BTW, if discrimination against a gay wedding because of religious convictions are not allowed, how do you explain this:
Obama Inc. Sues Trucking Company for Firing Muslim Drivers Who Refused to Deliver Alcohol
Why is the Muslim’s religious convictions more worthy of protection by the Obama administration than the Christian’s?
“It means that there may well be a store with a sign that says, “Blacks not allowed.” And you know what, that is his right to limit his business and his customers to whomever he so chooses.”
You have as much, if not more, chance of re-instituting human slavery as ever having that happen.
You would be hard [ressed to find 50,000 people in the entire USA who would go along with that, and 10x than number who would burn such an entity to the ground.
Well, we must do what we can to counter that and trust the rest to the Lord who has been our guardian over the centuries.
far from it
“When you add the friends, relatives, and colleagues of the 2% you rapidly get into business threatening range.”
You don’t get all of those people. I’m not sure it should be business-threatening, particularly when you think of all the new business they will get from decent people.
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