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.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/26/3941977/the-court-gets-an-opinion-on-marriage.html
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