[Note: due to my personal distaste at the pejoration of a once perfectly good word, I have edited Gribbit’s post very slightly. Where you see the construction “gay homosexual” you may be assured that the strikeout and substitution is my edit.—mnmus]
A central theme of the 2004 elections coinciding with the Presidential election was state amendments to their individual Constitutions defining marriage or banning same sex marriages. The ACLU has been successful in overturning these laws passed by the popular vote of the people in 2 states. Now, the ACLU is challenging another such law this time in the Volunteer State and the case is now coming before the state Supreme Court.
Several state representatives held a news conference to urge the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject an ACLU challenge on the constitutionality of the marriage amendment and let it go before a voter referendum.
They cited a survey by RealMarriage.org, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based group trying to get the amendment passed, that indicates most Tennesseans want to be able to vote on defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
“It’ll be a sad day when queers and lesbians are allowed to get married … and kiss in front of the courthouse,†Rep. Eric Watson, R-Cleveland, said.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The 49-48 procedural vote was 18 short of the 67 needed for the Senate to amend the constitution. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., criticized this week for bringing the matter to the floor in an election year, said those who favor the amendment will not give up.
“We must continue fighting to ensure the Constitution is amended by the will of the people rather than by judicial activism,†he said. SOURCE
So what are we to do? States are passing these measures by popular vote and those pushing the depravity of same sex marriage cannot prevent it from happening using the ballot so they resort to the judicial system. They bank on the activism of jurists to side with the minority. I’m sorry, but the way I was taught, majority rules is the democratic way.
The people in Tennessee want this law. But the ACLU and the gay lobby is doing all that they can to keep us from having our will and force us to accept unnatural coupling as healthy and normal. Where does it end?
End taxpayer funding of the ACLU. Sign our online petition and call, write, and email your Senators and Congressman. Let’s put this to an end.
If I may add a small piece, a more central issue than “majority rules” is that the ACLU and others have managed to with the Battle of the Fourteenth Amendment and intrude the federal government into all manner of local and state issues that it has no business in and that the Fourteenth Amendment was not, as far as I can determine, designed to address. “Equal protection” etc., does not apply to newly-discovered “rights” far from any either ennumerated in the Constitution or adherring to citizens under natural law at the time of the amendment’s passing… such as the supposed “right” of homosexuals to marry. —mnmus
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