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.
- In France, a radical Muslim attacked an American-owned gas company. He posted a decapitated head on the company’s fence along with Islamic flags.
- In Kuwait, a suicide bomber attacked a mosque, killing 13 people.
- In Tunisia, a terrorist attacked a beach resort frequented by Europeans, killing at least 28 vacationing tourists.Perhaps the White House and the political left could take time out from purging every last vestige of the Confederate flag and instead focus on more urgent matters . . . like putting down the flag of the Islamic State!The radical Islamists have already enslaved millions under their control throughout the Middle East and parts of Africa. They intend to enslave us all.The Enemy Within
As ISIS strikes overseas, the United States is facing its highest terrorist threat level ever. The FBI is rounding up known ISIS sympathizers in what appears to be a significant effort to thwart attacks during July 4th celebrations. And the danger could be far greater than we realize.
I have written repeatedly about the obvious deficiencies in our immigration and refugee policies when it comes to importing the hatred and bigotry that is so prevalent in the Islamic world.
The Center for Security Policy recently commissioned a poll to examine the sympathies of Muslims here in America. It found that 51% of Muslims favored the use of shariah law, while only 39% of American Muslims felt they should be subject to U.S. courts and our Constitution.
But far worse, nearly 20% said violence was “justified in order to make shariah the law of the land.”
Think about that for a moment. Estimates of the Muslim population in America vary dramatically. But let’s use the most conservative estimate of roughly 3 million. If the poll is accurate, there could be 600,000 Muslims in America who are prepared to use violence in order to subvert the Constitution.
Why aren’t we having a national conversation about that?
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