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<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nDouble Minded High Court Strikes Down DOMA !<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n By Scott Rohter, June 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Elvis has left the building and the Supreme Court has left town\u2026 But just before they did, they handed\u00a0down a raft of major decisions. Amazingly enough some of them weren\u2019t so bad. The net effect of the Supreme Court\u2019s two biggest decisions today on DOMA, and on California\u2019s Proposition 8 is that the power to decide whether or not to permit same sex marriage is left up to the States as it rightfully should be. Of course I would have liked to see the Supreme Court uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, but this decision is not so bad. It should not be construed as a defeat for traditional Christian values, but rather as a victory for advocates of limited government, and for all of us who still love the Constitution. Apparently they still occasionally read it over there at the Supreme Court. These two decisions should NOT be viewed as a victory for all those who like to make love to someone of the same sex, no matter how hard they try to convince\u00a0us that they were. They should rather be viewed as a victory for all those who love the Constitution. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Elvis is not the only thing that has gone out of the building though. The fundamental brick and mortar of values and civilization upon which all traditional societies have been built for the past 5,000 years has now been removed from the building too. The only thing left holding up the house is our Constitution, and God help us if they altogether stop following that. However this decision today really only affects twelve States. Those are the twelve States that have\u00a0already passed laws allowing same-sex marriage to occur within their borders. They are:\u00a0 Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Iowa, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Maine, Maryland, and Washington. In all cases where same sex marriage has been legalized it has either been by court order or by an official act of the State Legislature, and not by a vote of the people<\/span> except in three States. They are Maine, Maryland and Washington. This\u00a0is not by any means a steamroller for the gay rights agenda like the liberal media\u00a0is portraying it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Supreme Court decision striking down DOMA and\u00a0deciding\u00a0not to rule on the merits of California’sProposition 8\u00a0is not the end of the world for people who hold traditional Judeo-Christian values. It should however be the beginning of a renewed effort to hold on to our Constitution for our dear lives. We should be holding on to our Constitution just as hard as the liberal propaganda machine claims we are clinging to our guns and our faith.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In a separate case the Supreme Court\u00a0declined\u00a0to rule\u00a0on the actual merits of California\u2019s Proposition 8, thus leaving California’s ban on same sex marriage essentially still\u00a0in effect, at least in the minds of the many Californians who voted for it.\u00a0The High Court\u00a0ruled\u00a0instead that\u00a0because of the conspicuous absence of the\u00a0California Attorney Generals office who was not actually there defending\u00a0its own law, that\u00a0this case\u00a0lacked\u00a0sufficient legal standing, and\u00a0the proper legal representation to be heard, thus leaving California\u2019s popular\u00a0initiative banning\u00a0same sex marriage still basically unchallenged at the Supreme\u00a0 Court level.\u00a0So it is still in\u00a0effect today in theory at least, and\u00a0in the minds of many Californians who voted for it,\u00a0while\u00a0the battle\u00a0for California’s\u00a0soul\u00a0still goes on, after\u00a0a lower\u00a0court decision\u00a0overturning Proposition 8.1 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>(See footnotes at end of article)<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When both Supreme Court decisions are considered together in their entirety, they clearly reaffirm the Constitutional right of every State to decide for themselves whether or not to allow same sex marriage.<\/em>\u00a0In the final analysis all things being considered, that is actually a good thing. It is the next best thing to having a society that is based upon sound moral values, which we\u00a0obviously don\u2019t have anymore.\u00a0 The next best thing to having a society based on good, sound moral values is to have one where, \u201cthe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People,\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>in other words a society that follows the Constitution. That is the Tenth Amendment which was ratified in 1791.\u00a0So let’s all start clinging to our Constitution now for dear life,\u00a0just like the liberals accuse us of clinging to our God and our guns. Let’s show them our clinging power.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile the Supreme Court\u2019s decision today to toss out certain outdated provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is being\u00a0attacked by all the leaders of the race baiting and race peddling industries\u00a0all across America who actually want us to\u00a0believe that we are still living somewhere back in the 1950s, and that police dogs and water cannons are still being used to keep African Americans from going to the polls to vote. Please give me a break! In the last Presidential election there were actually members of the Black Panther Party standing out in front of the polls intimidating White voters. All of this liberal propaganda makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall. Oh but that\u2019s what I am already doing most of the time anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If you liked this article then please subscribe to my free RSS Newsfeed above, and join me and other patriots at www.wepluribus.net<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Footnotes:<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Since there have been some pretty varied and confusing interpretations by the liberal media in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision regarding California’s Proposition 8, let me try to clarify just what actually happened in Washington,\u00a0and where things\u00a0actually stand in the “land of fruits and nuts.”<\/em> ABC claims that California is the 13th State to legalize same sex marriage. NPR and Reuters Press Agency say\u00a0there are only\u00a0twelve States that have actually legalized same sex marriage, plus the District of Columbia. <\/span><\/p>\n In reality California had a referendum that banned same sex marriage back in 2008. It was called Proposition 8.\u00a0That was\u00a0a direct result of\u00a0the California Supreme Court decision to overturn its\u00a0predecessor, Proposition 22.\u00a0 The Referendum banning same sex marriage was passed in 2008 as a response to that, and Proposition 8 became an Amendment to the\u00a0State Constitution of California. Then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals\u00a0intervened, and overturned Proposition 8, and the continuing see saw battle between the\u00a0voters of California, and their elected and appointed officials has been going on now for\u00a0about 13 years\u00a0ever since 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n I believe that\u00a0California is the first such case where a court has actually overturned a referendum of the people and an amendment to the State Constitution banning same sex marriage. That’s what Proposition 8 did. It made same sex marriage illegal in California, and it became an amendment to the California Constitution.\u00a0Even the United States Supreme Court did not do what\u00a0these lower courts have thought to do and in fact done. It did not overturn a direct vote of the people. It only chose to acknowledge what twelve other States had already done. And\u00a0the US Supreme Court\u00a0chose not<\/span> to acknowledge one way or the other anything that is going on in California. In other words it turned a blind eye to the issue altogether as far as California is concerned.\u00a0It did not decide really anything with\u00a0regard to the legal merits of Proposition 8, but it based its decision on a mere legal technicality.<\/span><\/p>\n The Governor of California, a liberal Democrat by the name of\u00a0Jerry Brown decided that his Attorney General’s Office would not\u00a0defend Proposition 8.\u00a0 That’s correct. The top law enforcement\u00a0officer\u00a0in the State of California chose not to defend\u00a0his own law. That’s kind of like what Barack Obama did\u00a0when he\u00a0decided that\u00a0he would\u00a0not\u00a0enforce our country’s immigration laws, or that he would not enforce DOMA at the Federal\u00a0level. \u00a0It seems that there are a lot of actual conspiracies going on in our country right now. So the liberal loon Governor of California, Jerry Brown who is\u00a0sometimes referred to as Governor Moonbeam<\/em> chose not to\u00a0order his Attorney General to defend California’s ban on same sex marriage. (Of course everyone knows that Governor Brown is totally in the pockets of Hollywood, and Hollywood is behind the gay rights agenda.) <\/span><\/p>\n The United States Supreme Court\u00a0only ruled that\u00a0in the absence of a proper defense team that they would not consider the merits of the case regarding Proposition 8. They said that no one else in California\u00a0had the legal standing to defend California’s ban on same sex marriage except the Attorney General’s Office which had been ordered not<\/span> to defend\u00a0it by Governor Brown. Of course\u00a0that could change as fast as the next election, and as soon as California’s voters get some brains, and so the battle for California’s soul\u00a0rages on. So just don’t believe all of the liberal spin that you hear in the mainstream media. – Scott Rohter<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Corroborating Sources<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/26\/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-states-idUSBRE95P07A20130626<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Proposition_8<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Select Related Articles<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/Gay-Lesbian-Activitsts-Repeal-Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/race-relations-stop-playing-cards.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/NewYork-legalizes-gay-marriage.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/capt-honors-discharged-navy.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/thegoodpoliticalshepherd.com\/wrestling-against-the-political-powers-of-this-world-and-the-blind-leaders-of-the-blind.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>A crucial part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that once defined marriage for the entire country as a social contract between one man and one woman has been struck down\u00a0by the United States Supreme Court as un-constitutional. That is true. This legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. Since then the\u00a0Democrat Party has moved much farther to the left. The new high court with two new Obama appointees on it who are both women, and who are both lesbian activist judges did exactly what most observers\u00a0expected they would do. So the Supreme \u00a0Court\u2019s decision\u00a0came as no surprise.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>For the very first time today I heard a new phrase uttered by a progressive journalist on National Public Radio which I have never heard before in my life. That phrase was \u201copposite sex marriage\u201d.<\/i> \u00a0So up is still down, and down is still up in liberal journalism and in Washington which is dominated by all of their liberal propaganda. \u00a0Good is still bad, and bad is still good, and the brainwashing\u00a0by the liberal media still continues today unabated and undeterred by whatever the Supreme Court decides. It will continue to influence our society until the conservative people of\u00a0this country actually own an arm of the media. The liberal brainwashing of our society by the media will continue as long as the liberals control\u00a0the news, and the RINOs control the Republican Party.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n