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1 posted on 08/20/2014 12:20:55 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

I don’t know why. They’ll just rule it a tax...


2 posted on 08/20/2014 12:44:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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As the American Thinker observes:

What’s happening in state after state is not the citizenry is giving its seal of approval to same-sex marriage — in fact, we are doing quite the opposite.

Then once a measure fails lawyers funded by activists file lawsuits and begin a legal process. If and when the first attempt fails they file an appeal and try again. And again. And again. These lawsuits run up through the court system until finally landing on the desk of a judge sympathetic to the cause.

That judge then takes the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box and with the stroke of a pen throws it out.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 1:03:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: GIdget2004
And as The American Thinker observes:

Justice Henry F. Floyd serves on the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. He along with a colleague similarly ruled that Virginia’s constitutional provision for definition of marriage has got to go. Last month (on July 28, 2014) the two of them overturned the state’s (aka: the people’s) constitution. Virginians voted 57 to 43 percent (a thorough drubbing) in 2006 to amend the state’s constitution thus banning gay marriage. It was clearly what the people wanted. Mr. Floyd sees things differently and in essence said to the people of Virginia, “Sorry, you rubes.” If that weren’t enough, the 4th Circuit’s decision will also apply to all other states in the district (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.)

Including the forementioned Indiana that makes six states with a combined population of approximately thirty-seven million people; the will of those people as expressed in the writing and amending of their state’s constitution has been obliterated by but three individuals.

Since the Supreme Court’s dismantling of the Defense of Marriage Act one year ago there now has been twenty consecutive federal court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage. Twenty in a row! The decision did not embolden gay-marriage activists to continually present the issue to Americans as ballot initiatives, rather it opened the floodgates to sue, sue, and sue some more. Note the headlines of the following articles, all published in 2014:

SIX COUPLES FILE LAWSUIT

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT STRIKES DOWN BAN

FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN STATES BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE

ACTIVISTS CHEER COURT RULING

Notice any commonality? None dealing with actual election results because the election results are consistent and are not something for gay-marriage proponents to applaud. None tout the idea of letting our systems of self-governance run its course. None trumpeting “We the People”. Rather all of these stories (and I could easily have posted links to dozens and dozens) have gay-marriage proponents applauding court decisions, not election results.

So don't be fooled into thinking "Americans now want same-sex marriage." The truth is, "a handful of Americans now want same-sex marriage." It so happens that some of that handful have jobs that grant them the power to simply overrule the will and desire of the masses, even if only temporarily. As it relates to this particular topic, we are not being governed according to the will of the people. We are being governed by the wills of two or three or so.

4 posted on 08/20/2014 1:04:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: GIdget2004

Oh, thank God. My church has been fasting and praying.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 1:05:08 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: GIdget2004

This is not justice but activism. The reason homosexuality is NOT a mental illness as described in the DSM is because a group of Gay psychologists attended the conference that rewrote the diagnoses manual and took homosexuality as a social malady out. So now let’s fall for the next Leftists’ trick and have a Constitutional convention so the liberals can insert a paragraph allowing Democrat Voter Fraud.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 2:38:07 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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