acludem said:
Have a read of this story. It goes to show that homosexuality is not just a human characteristic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4352011/
acludem
Nice article, but just because penguins feed their young with regurgitated fish doesnÂ’t mean IÂ’m going to!
Now, to turn to the articleÂ’s real point, here are my fifty centsÂ’ worthÂ…..
1. Slavery was abolished by amending the Constitution. That was done by the Congress of the United States.
2. Women gained the right to vote when the Constitution was amended. That was done by the Congress of the United States.
3. The right to free speech, freedom of religion, again was granted to people because of an amendment to the Constitution, which was also was done by the Congress of the United States.
Do you see a pattern here? The Congress of the United States grants the rights, not the judiciary. I could go into other "rights" that have been granted by the judiciary by over stepping its constitutionally mandated powers, but you can apply what I'm about to say to Roe vs. Wade or Lawrence vs. Texas as well.
In the case of gay marriage, the Massachusetts Supreme Court over stepped its Constitutionally mandated powers and legislated from the bench. In effect, a few unelected officials with life time tenure and no accountability made law. That is what our Founding Fathers would view as an egregious abuse of power and amounts to government by an oligarchy instead of government by the people. Actually, if the Massachusetts Assembly or Senate got off their dead asses, they would be entirely within their constitutionally granted right to impeach the responsible justices.
The mayor of New Paltz, New York, and the mayor of San Francisco, California both broke the law when they issued marriage licenses to homosexuals in direct violation of the laws of their respective states. In the case of the mayor of New Paltz, he was brought before a judge ... in the case of the mayor of San Francisco, the Attorney General refused to do his duty and arrest him (I wonder why Governor Arnold hasn't fired and replaced him).
Now, you can call gay marriage a right or you can call it an abomination.... but that's not the point I'm trying to make. The point here is that a small group of left leaning individuals who were sworn to uphold the Constitution of their states (as well as the Constitution of the US) took the law into their own hands, basically trashed the Constitution in order to force upon the rest of us something that we don't want. That is in effect, a coup d'etat and is not something that a free people should tolerate.
The question now is do we allow a small group of renegade officials to break the law, trash the Constitution and force laws on the rest of us? The answer from even someone like you should be NO.
If the gay rights activists and their supporters believe that gay marriage is a right worth fighting for, then they should take the same path that the abolitionists and the suffragists took before them. They should petition Congress for an amendment to the Constitution granting gay marriage. But they won't because they know that they won't win. Such a measure wouldn't even survive a committee vote.
Anyway, for your information, the Congress has started to act on this and has limited the jurisdiction of federal courts from hearing any court challenge on the Defense of Marriage Act. The measure has passed the House of Representatives and is awaiting a vote by the Senate. Unlike the power grab of the judiciary, this measure is entirely within the constitutionally mandated powers granted to the Congress. Most states have already passed laws that both ban gay marriage and grant authority to refuse recognition of any gay marriage performed outside those states. Hopefully, that will be the end of this idiotic national embarrassment.