Tuesday, March 26, 2013

What Will Happen if Same-Sex Marriage is Declared a Civil Right?



Gay marriage is before the Supreme Court.  General consensus is they’re looking for a way to skirt the issue.  Some justices have hinted that this issue isn’t ripe, just yet.  For the sake of argument, let’s consider the possibility of a ruling that grants same-sex marriages as a constitutionally protected civil right.

Rush Limbaugh touched on something that deserves debate.  What will happen to churches and religious institutions that refuse to recognize, or perform gay marriages.  Will the federal government take away their tax exempt status?  Will they fine, or possibly confiscate property in order to coerce them?  We’ve already witnessed the Obama administration bullying the Catholic Church and related organizations for not adopting parts of Obamacare.  Who’s to say that they won’t resort to such tactics?

 


So far, over 20 States have amended their constitutions formerly declaring that same-sex marriages are not recognized.  Will the federal government withhold subsidies, or will they occupy our capitols and setup quisling governments like they did to the South after the War of Northern Aggression? 

And isn’t it odd that the 14th Amendment - a post civil war amendment, which was designed to punish the South and its citizens, is still on the books?  And how many times has the federal judiciary abused its authority with this amendment?  The feds know how to coerce the sheeple.   
The 14th Amendment

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.



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