Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: WildHighlander57
My point was twofold. One, that the clerks are put on the spot by a combination of SCOTUS ruling and the clerk's state-based superiors.

The other point was raised to illuminate that resolution of this constitutional crisis can take more than one path. The path selected, so far, is to pit individual religious liberty against the constitutional right to homosexual marriage. That approach adds legitimacy to the SCOTUS ruling, because it takes a view that there is a constitutional right to homosexual marriage. In other words, the path to resolution involves obedience to the law.

But if one adopts a point of view that the ruling is flat out wrong, illegitimate, or whatever you want to call it, and holds that there is no constitutional right to homosexual marriage, no matter what SCOTUS has to say on the subject, then the path to resolution looks like civil disobedience.

81 posted on 06/28/2015 7:43:27 AM PDT by Cboldt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies ]


To: Cboldt

That second path is along the lines of what was done regarding the Dred Scott decision; it was ignored, then overturned.


82 posted on 06/28/2015 2:41:52 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson