Posted on 01/05/2015 2:09:02 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Florida's ban on marriages between same-sex couples is headed for a midnight end, with wedding vows planned around the state.
A stay expires late Monday in a federal judge's ruling striking down the ban enacted in 2008 by voters. Several court clerks are planning to begin issuing....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Miami media is doing a sick happy dance. Meanwhile, Florida's constitution AND the nation's Constitution is being shredded.
to avoid this cluster... some counties in Florida will no longer perform ANY marriages
since the feds are overruling the will of the people on this issue, i would suggest other counties start to do the same.
...and in the coming days, weeks, months, watch some perverted federal judge ORDER county clerks to perform these fake marriages.
Then, they’ll order church ministers who believe the Bible to do it.
And they’ll order all businesses, even ones that are owned by Christians who believe the Bible, to perform services that violate their first amendment rights.
The Constitution is being shredded: first amendment, tenth amendment, fourteenth amendment.
To reverse this nonsense, the national government must be refederalized; the states must be returned to their proper place and role. There is no alternative.
I agree. The fears of Patrick Henry and the other anti-Federalists are coming true.
Will it be a Catholic or Protestant church sued first for refusing to host homosexual marriage???
Leftists in FL been dancing on the Constitution’s dead corpse since this was announced.
This is the kind of world they want: black-robed priests and tribal warlords.
James Madison at the VA ratifying convention:
“If the general government were wholly independent of the governments of the particular states, then, indeed, usurpation might be expected to the fullest extent. But, sir, on whom does this general government depend? It derives its authority from these governments.”
The Framers’ design preserved liberty through division of power. We squandered our inheritance in 1913.
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THEY CALL THIS A DEMOCRACY?
The will of 62% of Florida voters (almost 5,000,000) overturned by a few pro-homosexual judges.
Some counties are not doing any marriages in the court houses. Any other person authorized to issue marriage licenses in those counties can still do so if they want and the state will recognize them, ‘gay marriages’ included.
Freegards
“Then, they’ll order church ministers who believe the Bible to do it.”
Following and since Loving v Virginia, the federal courts have not ordered any minister to perform interracial marriages or for the matter, interfaith marriages.
Is exactly right, the media (at this point) are bright Yellow and not to be trusted with a ten foot pole.
Same in the Tampa Bay area - every promo for news during the weekend’s NFL games had some reporter just giddy with excitement.
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