Romer v. Evans
(1996): The United States Supreme Court
ruled that an amendment to the Colorado state constitution prohibiting special
protection to homosexuals violated the U.S. Constitution.
Goodridge v.
Department of Public Health (2003): The
Massachusetts state Court of Appeals ruled that homosexuals have a right to
marry.
Then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to defend the
Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which restricts legal marriage to one
man and one woman, against legal
challenges although it was his sworn duty to do so (2011).
Priest-King announced his support for homosexual marriage,
reversing a position he had vigorously advocated during his first campaign for
President (2012).
Sweet Cakes by Melissa (2013): Melissa and Aaron Klein, Christians who operated a bakery in
Oregon, refused to serve a homosexual couple who wanted a cake for their
wedding, based on their Christian beliefs.
The Kleins were fined $135,000 and ordered not to even discuss their
case, and face the loss of their business if they don’t comply.
Gortz Haus Gallery (2013): Betty
and Dick Odgaard, Christians who operated a wedding chapel in Iowa, refused to
perform a homosexual wedding, based on their Christian beliefs. The Odgaards were prosecuted, fined,
repeatedly threatened with physical violence and ultimately driven out of
business.
Hollingsworth v. Perry
(2013): The United States Supreme Court
ruled that Proposition 8, an amendment to the California state constitution
limiting marriage to one man and one woman and overwhelmingly approved by
California voters, violated the U.S. Constitution. The Court also ruled that the sponsors of
Proposition 8, who defended it in Federal court when the State of California
refused to defend it themselves, had no legal standing.
United States v.
Windsor (2013): On the
same day that they ruled in Hollingsworth
v. Perry, SCOTUS ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act
described above was unconstitutional.
The majority insisted that the right to regulate marriage properly
belonged to the states, not the Federal government.
Hitching Post Wedding Chapel (2014): Donald and Evelyn Knapp, Christian ministers who operated a
wedding chapel in Idaho, refused to perform a homosexual wedding and are
threatened with prosecution.
Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB101, 2015): An Indiana state law intended to
protect Christian business owners from government retaliation if they refuse to
provide service because of their Christian beliefs, as cited in the examples
above, was met with outrage, street protests and boycotts by the liberal Left,
and was rapidly amended.
Obergefell v. Hodges
(2015): Two years after ruling that
the states have exclusive right to regulate marriage and after 31 states had
either amended their constitutions or passed legislation banning homosexual
marriage in accordance with that ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed
itself, ruling that those state bans violated the U.S. Constitution and that
marriage was so important that only the Federal government should manage
it. SCOTUS redefined marriage to include
homosexuals, ruled that states must recognize homosexual marriages performed in
other jurisdictions and effectively legalized homosexual marriage throughout
the United States and its territories.
And this:
Kelo v. City of New
London (2005): The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that the government can seize private property under the
doctrine of eminent domain and transfer that property to another private owner
for economic reasons, grossly expanding government power and undermining
individual property rights. It is
worthwhile to note that the property seized by the City of New London,
Connecticut, for a waterfront project anchored by the Pfizer corporation, is
now an empty lot:
The developer failed to obtain the necessary financing and
dropped the project, Pfizer walked away when its tax breaks expired and closed
its New London facility at the cost of 1000 jobs, after Hurricane Irene in
2011, the 91-acre property was used as a dump for storm debris and the City of
New London, after all the litigation, clearing the property, relocating
existing homes and compensation paid, lost $78 million. Instead of creating
3169 jobs and generating $1.2 million annually in tax revenue, the property in
question generates nothing.
Between 2008-2013, Priest-King lied at least 37 times about
Obamacare, e.g. "If you like your health care plan, you can
keep it.”
Since its passage in 2010, Priest-King has arbitrarily
changed, delayed or suspended parts of Obamacare 51 times although he has no
legal or Constitutional authority to do so.
National Federation of
Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012): The
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual citizens can be forced to buy health
insurance at their own expense because, in SCOTUS’ interpretation, the word
“penalty” in the text of the legislation really means “tax” and Congress has
the power to levy taxes, despite testimony and Congressional records indicating
that Congress deliberately chose the word “penalty” to mask the overall cost of
Obamacare and to minimize political resistance to the law. The ruling not only saved Obamacare but
established a new precedent, that the government can not only regulate commerce
but compel private citizens to engage in it.
King v. Burwell
(2015): The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that under Obamacare, the Federal government may establish and operate health
care exchanges in states choosing to participate in the program, and provide
subsidies to people within those exchanges, although the text of the
legislation reads exactly, “an Exchange established by the State.” This ruling saved Obamacare again and set yet
another precedent, that laws as written
do not mean what they say, but may mean whatever the Supreme Court decides they
mean.
So where do these two trends leave us? In the first, we see
the relentless, jackbooted march of homosexuality across our country, rainbow
banners waving, going from mere toleration to protection to radical advocacy to
full legalization in less than twenty years.
The full power of government at all levels is wielded against ordinary
citizens to force them to accept contemporary liberal orthodoxy, bludgeoning
them with lawsuits, prosecution and a few threats of physical violence thrown
in for good measure, bulldozing over every barrier in their path. State laws and constitutions and DOMA itself
are overturned, the Attorney General and the President of the United States
both abdicate their responsibility, the Supreme Court repeatedly intervenes to further
a degenerate lifestyle, the right of the people to govern themselves is
annulled, inconsistency and hypocrisy are liberally – no pun intended –
employed to achieve the goal of full integration of homosexuality, crushing
everything except an individual’s conscience, and they are battering at
that. “You stubborn, stiffnecked
Christians better get on board if you know what’s good for you. You either give homosexuality your
unqualified support and celebrate it and approve of it or you’ll lose your job,
your business, your home and even your freedom, the First Amendment be
damned.” In the second trend, we see the
inversion of the basic principle of the United States itself, that the
government is the creation and the servant of the people. The government can condemn and seize your
property now not only for a government purpose but because the government
thinks that someone else can make money with it, regardless if that other
someone actually does. Priest-king lies
repeatedly to ensure the passage and survival of Obamacare and then
capriciously alters that odious law whenever it is politically advantageous to
do so, with absolutely zero legal or Constitutional authority. Not to be outdone, SCOTUS just as
capriciously reinterprets the law not once but twice to save it from itself, because God forbid that people be
allowed to make their own choices or that words actually mean what they say –
Obamacare would collapse if they didn’t intervene! And if we superimpose these two trends atop
each other, we see the growth and menace of Superstate, a Leviathan beyond what
Thomas Hobbes imagined: Congress, the
President and the Supreme Court working in concert with each other, merging
with each other, supporting and protecting each other, forcing political and
economic and social change on the country through any means necessary, seizing
property, jailing its opponents, trampling on individual rights, lying,
breaking laws, creating laws and reinterpreting laws such that the people have
no protection under the law, and if
the law provides no security, where are the people to turn? To Leviathan, of course. Submit to Leviathan, serve Leviathan
unquestioningly and Leviathan will allow you to exist, under whatever
conditions Leviathan deems fit. Your
rights mean nothing, laws mean nothing. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, as the Borg would
say. This sort of bondage, of course, is the exact condition the Constitution
was designed to prevent through its system of divided government and strict
limits on government authority, and was indeed prevented for some 186 years
until the Supreme Court discovered a heretofore invisible right to privacy in
the Ninth Amendment and then a right to abort human fetuses cloaked within that
right to privacy, implementing the will of a hyper-vocal feminist minority with
the assent of a liberal Congress and a liberal President. Alexander Hamilton warned us about such a
convergence of power in Federalist #51:
“But the great security against a gradual
concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving
to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and
personal motives to resist encroachments of the others… Ambition must be made
to counteract ambition.” And again, particularly applicable to the present
homosexual juggernaut: “It is of great
importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression
of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of
the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of
citizens.” The whole point of
divided government is to prevent the urge to concentrate power and destroy
liberty, but the assumption of the Founding Fathers that government officials
would faithfully discharge their duties in accordance with the Constitution has
been superseded by Leftist ideology, for which concentrating power at the expense
of liberty is the highest virtue.
Nonetheless, it is not too late. Further damage to our Republic does not have
to be sustained. We can stem the tide,
as it were, by doing three things:
1)
Keep your guns clean and ready
2)
Vote Republican in 2016
And most importantly:
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