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An Argument for Dignity. Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
Slate ^ | Ap 28 2015 | Dahlia Lithwick

Posted on 04/29/2015 9:12:37 PM PDT by WilliamIII

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To: WilliamIII

Marriage bestows dignity. Strange argument. Does that mean a bigamist has twice the dignity of one who is single? Or how about Elizabeth Taylor- 8 times the normal quota of dignity? And when she divorced seven times, did she become intrinsically undignified?


21 posted on 04/29/2015 10:06:00 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: WilliamIII

why not shack up, marriage is just a piece of paper/Libs


22 posted on 04/29/2015 10:21:33 PM PDT by RginTN
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If the 17th Amendment had not been ratified then there would probably be all different faces on the Supreme Court today. And if such was the case then patriots would probably not be concerned about activist justices like Roberts and Kennedy who evidently let their emotions trump what the Constitution indicates about gay marriage.

And what the Constitution indicates about gay marriage is this. Not only have the states never delegated to the Supreme Court, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to define marriage, but Justice Kennedy and all the other justices should be explaining the following about gay marriage in one unified voice.

The Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like marriage means that the states, not the feds, uniquely have the constitutional authority to make laws which prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and activist justices along with it.


23 posted on 04/29/2015 10:32:26 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: WilliamIII

I am not sure what the person really said but this quote is different than what I saw elsewhere.


24 posted on 04/29/2015 10:42:46 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I noticed that too... it seems in this version the rant goes on longer, is less theologically accurate (by most evangelical lights) and sounds like something less likely that Scalia would smile for as a whole.

Voting for this folly... the danger is not even so much going to hell (well that may be a Catholic position) as in inviting hell right here to live with us in America. The sin can be repented of, but the consequences stick like glue.


25 posted on 04/29/2015 10:48:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: WilliamIII

What’s so noble about two warped doods cornholing each other? Stupid and filthy, yes. Noble, no.


26 posted on 04/29/2015 10:51:31 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes, Dissent. Between my own ignorance, fat fingers and auto correct these things happen.


27 posted on 04/29/2015 10:53:37 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

And so granted, Scalia said that.

In a way I wish this pretty bright legal mind would quit laying a trail for these hell mongers to follow. If I were Machiavellian and were advising the Gaystapo, I’d tell them listen real well to Justice Scalia and then exploit it to the maximum. He’s the brain, he will see the weakness and map it out for you in black and white.


28 posted on 04/29/2015 10:56:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dennisw

If you don’t actually look at what’s happening there it’s oh so noble indeed...


29 posted on 04/29/2015 10:58:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

And it just hit me... you think I joke.

There was a self-proclaimed gay Freeper who had a moniker of something like “Scalia fan.”

I wondered at the time, why on earth. I even asked her by freepmail why she’d go for a fellow who would be OK with even putting her to death. (FWIW I can’t see a penalty like that for this offense in the Noahide law, which is the pertinent theological factor in the non-Mosaic world.) She just said she liked him.

I think now I know why! Scalia was being an inadvertent Gaystapo map. Whatever Scalia dreads in his opinions, try every way to do.


30 posted on 04/29/2015 11:07:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: WilliamIII

Marriage offers dignity? Well, then can singles sue for dignity? I thought the dignity came from being married to the other parent of your kids.


31 posted on 04/29/2015 11:49:48 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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I thought 2 of the judges recused themselves, so it will be a 7 panel vote? Am I right on this?


32 posted on 04/30/2015 12:05:48 AM PDT by Catsrus
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To: WilliamIII
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.”

~ Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, who became St. John Paul the Great {Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, “Notable & Quotable,” “Wall Street Journal” (Nov. 9, 1978), 30.}

33 posted on 04/30/2015 12:26:22 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: WilliamIII

The protestors have probably done more damage to their cause than good. I’d like to be hopeful, but Roberts has proven he is a scumbag and with Kennedy leaning left, it looks like the queers have this one in the bag.


34 posted on 04/30/2015 12:32:34 AM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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But when the ruling for homosexual marriage comes down, real Christians will force every politician to declare wether they are for or against it. Real Christians will vote against every politician who is for the decision, no matter the party. It will be a time for choosing which god we serve....the Supreme Court or the True God.


35 posted on 04/30/2015 1:02:58 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Slate publicly stroking Kennedy...


36 posted on 04/30/2015 1:07:36 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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“I thought 2 of the judges recused themselves, so it will be a 7 panel vote? Am I right on this?”

Nope, recuse is self imposed. Neither Ginsburg or the Lesbian whoms name escapes me would do the right thing, shocking! Both have presided over gay marriges.


37 posted on 04/30/2015 3:22:49 AM PDT by DAC21
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"Scalia might actually be inadvertently helping these hellmongers fix on their next targets."

No, Scalia was just informing the lay people/future analysts of how case law based on this subject will descend further down the rabbit hole with his dissent. Scalia already is well aware of the members of the Court's ideology and the tools they will use to push their perverted "legal" reasoning.
38 posted on 04/30/2015 3:42:40 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: WilliamIII

these justices aren’t worth a bucket of spit.


39 posted on 04/30/2015 3:49:53 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Catsrus

No way on recusal. The three women justices are agenda pimps, they are there to advance leftism. Recusal would deny them an opportunity to fulfill their mission.


40 posted on 04/30/2015 4:12:08 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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