Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:37:41 AM
Much has been made about the speech two weeks ago when former Vice President Cheney expressed a nonchalance about state sanction of marriage between gay individuals. Frankly, I don’t see the big deal.
It has been a long maintained position of KsReaganite that the issue of marriage is within the jurisdiction of states as determined by the representatives of the people of such states. As long as the duly elected legislature of a state determines that a man can marry another man and provides for the fullest protection of the First Amendment rights of those who find such ‘marriages’ an affront, so be it.
As such, I do cautiously respect what the government of New Hampshire did, in stark contrast to the dictatorial edicts of black robed ayatollahs in Iowa, Massachussetts, and Vermont. Let us be clear, however, that for the religious rights of conscience to be protected, it is incumbent that errant federal judges be forever forbidden to rule upon the issue of gay marriage. With one flick of a pen-egged on by one individual’s desire to be immortalized in the annals of the ABA-the rights of Orthodox Jewish parents and Roman Catholic cathedrals can be eviscerated. This has happened before and continues to happen as we speak.
So here is the deal, my liberal friends: I will support the concept of gay marriage provided that all these conditions are met;
- Only state legislatures can authorize it
- Other states or the federal government cannot be forced to accept it
- Federal judges lose all jurisdiction, per Article 3, Section 2, Exception clause