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Is the honeymoon OVER for Adam & Steve?

Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage ( More Entries )

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    Publisher's note: Brant Clifton shows that an activist judiciary may not get the last word in N.C. regarding the gay life in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

    A ruling Thursday by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals on gay marriage restrictions in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky could open the door to a US Supreme Court review and offer some hope for advocates of traditional marriage.

    On October 10, an Obama appointed federal judge in Asheville declared the marriage amendment to the North Carolina constitution unconstitutional. A main point in his argument was that no other courts had upheld similar laws. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had made a similar argument when the high court had refused to hear challenges to the overturn efforts.

    Well, Thursday's ruling — declaring that states DO have the right to make their own rules regarding things like marriage — throws a real monkey wrench into leftist efforts to thwart the will of the people via black-robed gavel-banging fellow travelers.

    North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest issued a pretty terse statement condemning the Asheville judge's October 10 decision. Our state's second-in-command cheered Thursday's ruling by the Sixth Circuit:

    [...] "Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld as constitutional the Marriage Amendments in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The Sixth Circuit's ruling almost ensures that the United States Supreme Court will hear the issue.

    Of importance, the Sixth Circuit ruling relied on principles of federalism and judicial restraint. The court noted: 'Not one of the plaintiffs' theories, however, makes the case for constitutionalizing the definition of marriage and for removing the issue from the place it has been since the founding: in the hands of the state voters.'

    The Sixth Circuit's ruling recognized that this is an issue for the states to decide through the political process, explicitly rejecting the judicial activism shown in other courts on the issue: 'Of all the ways to resolve this question, one option is not available: a poll of the three judges on this panel, or for that matter all federal judges, about whether gay marriage is a good idea. Our judicial commissions did not come with such a sweeping grant of authority, one that would allow just three of us- just two of us in truth- to make such a vital policy call for the thirty-two million citizens who live within the four States of the Sixth Circuit.'

    Those of us who stand for the people and their vote can hope that the Supreme Court of the United States will follow the Sixth Circuit's lead."

    "What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

    And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!"

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Gene Scarborough said:

( November 14th, 2014 @ 5:42 pm )

1949 is based on the "fear factor gone wild" on the Pacific Coast during 1949. Viewing this last round of election, I think that factor now lives all over the US ~~~ therefore, a Conservative voice is obsessively sought.

I shall write on that immediately.

Stan Deatherage said:

( November 14th, 2014 @ 8:28 am )

I didn't write this one. Brant wrote it.

Well, actually, Brant and Lt. Dan wrote it.

Gene Scarborough said:

( November 14th, 2014 @ 5:26 am )

Despite an emotional subject guaranteed to get people fighting---you are using 1949 as a model! I love it, Stan.

Any thoughts on the splitting of marriage into a religious ceremony OR a civil one?

It sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. BUT then what could we fight over?

Stan Deatherage said:

( November 13th, 2014 @ 9:50 pm )

The Germans bombing Pearl is just a reference to the "Animal House", scene when Blustarsky does his Germans bombing Pearl Harbor soliloquy.

You have to follow the link.

Gene Scarborough said:

( November 13th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm )

I think you are so right that we need to add about 30' to the end of your bench to accommodate your conservatism!

You are so right, in fact, the Germans are bombing Pearl Harbor!!! Dude, that is so smert it does not really require a reasonable retort

I sat down and had a serious logical conversation between my clergy self and another deep-thinking man of the cloth. He shed some light I had not considered prior to this week actually.

How about we reserve heterosexual marriage for church blessing and then let the civil ceremony cover BOTH types of Union? The real push by homosexuals to find legal blessing is to quit catting around and settle down with society's blessing!

If you think a little more deeply, the fact is --- if we were Romans or Greeks, they allowed for same-sex blessing. Jews did not. Egyptians did / Jews did not. Some tribes all over the world consider homosexuals "special." Some happen to be tribes of the Native Americans, in fact.

Using the civil / religious dichotomy and separating church and state as the Constitution indicates that "Congress shall make no laws . . ." now becomes more obvious and, possibly, Constitutional!

We do want to honor the ideals of the Founding Fathers, don't we? Old Ben Franklin was a sexual creature who loved France for its dalliances --- some of them possibly same-sex. I guess the "Germans bombing Pearl Harbor" has me a little light headed with wild thought, man ---- please forgive if they are a little wild for an abject wild CONSERVATIVE to consider!