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American Values, End of Day, with Gary Bauer: Supremely Wrong On Marriage; Put The ISIS Flag Down; The Enemy Within

Rick Stambaugh

Friday, June 26, 2015

From: Gary L. Bauer

Supremely Wrong On Marriage

Today, five unelected lawyers on the Supreme Court decided that they know better than thousands of years of Judeo-Christian civilization and millions of American voters.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, redefines marriage coast-to-coast. Once again, the Supreme Court has imposed its morality on the entire country and told millions of citizens that their votes and their values do no matter.

In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts told supporters of same-sex marriage that they could celebrate their victory and the expanded benefits that come with it. “But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it,” he wrote.

Roberts also predicted that polygamy would be next:

 

“Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective ‘two’ in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not. . . . It is striking how much of the majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim of a fundamental right to plural marriage.”


Justice Antonin Scalia, well-known for his scathing critiques, was particularly harsh in his dissent. He called the decision a “judicial putsch” and compared Justice Kennedy’s reasoning to “the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”

Scalia warned that the decision represented a “threat to American democracy.” Consider this excerpt:

 

“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. . . . This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine . . . robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”


Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion, “Aside from undermining the political processes that protect our liberty, the majority’s decision threatens the religious liberty our Nation has long sought to protect.”

We will provide more analysis in the days ahead. But there is one thing we must focus on right now: How do we respond?

Are we going to throw up our hands and give up? If that response is widely embraced, I guarantee you that your children will grow up in a country that no longer tolerates religious liberty.

So you can run up the flag of surrender or you can redouble your efforts at your church, within your families and with the groups you support.

Here’s something to keep in mind: The men and women we elect to public office nominate and confirm the judges who serve on our courts, including the Supreme Court.

Four justices of the Supreme Court are 76 years-old or older. The odds are overwhelming that the next president we elect will have the opportunity to fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court.

Put The ISIS Flag Down

While the American left and its media allies continue their battle to eliminate a symbol of slavery from the 1860s, today’s flag of slavery is brazenly on the march once again.

 

 

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