As for the title,
"Was that sarcasm? ... Nailed it."
I’ll preface this by just stating that I’m posting this
here, because the people who read it either actually care about my opinion or
are just clicking the link because I make their blood boil with my intellectual
superiority. But seriously, I’m just
trying to avoid the endless drama on Facebook.
I’ve known it ever since last year’s epic failure on their
part, but the Supreme Court is lost. It’s
become just another legislative branch of the federal government that is filled
with crusty politicians, placed there by biased presidents. Granted, I had higher faith in Chief Justice
John Roberts initially, because even though I didn’t always agree with his
policies, I was much more in line with George W. Bush’s political ideology, and
figured his choice of Roberts was well grounded. Well, whoever did the background check or
whatever on Roberts clearly didn’t see that he has spineless tendencies. First, he ruled with the liberal justices to essentially
enact ObamaCare – one of the most far reaching, clearly unconstitutional pieces
of legislation to have been signed into law.
Now, he’s become just as spineless in deciding the Proposition 8 case,
essentially saying the court can’t rule on morality.
Justice Anthony Kennedy has always been the hair-trigger of
the court, seemingly lacking conviction and doing whatever he wants on a given
case. He joined the liberal justices in deeming
the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
I don’t pretend to know the ins-and-outs, if you will of the law, but
what I gather by the justice department’s unwillingness to enforce the law is
that it’s a pro-traditional marriage law.
In other words, it doesn’t fit the agenda of this administration. Oh, and even Bill Clinton – the man who
signed it into law – praised the court’s decision to overturn the law. Roberts dissented on this one, but it seems
too little too late.
Really, why I’m irritated, is that the Supreme Court, and
really, the courts in general, has just become a bench full of
legislators. Presidents Obama and
Clinton stacked the court with affirmative action installments who would execute
his leftist agenda when given the opportunity.
Presidents Bush (both 41 and 43) and Reagan put justices there that he
deemed constitutionalists. Now, they’ve
just become political hacks. Thomas and
Alito remain the most level headed, with Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan
the left’s activists on the bench. Legislation from the bench is not what the
founders had in mind. It was a system of
checks and balances, but clearly that’s not the Court’s mantra these days. As with ObamaCare, they don’t look to the
Constitution anymore, but seemingly to the public’s (read: the media’s)
perception of them.
None of this is surprising.
The whole notion of gay marriage becoming accepted is somewhat moot. The media will continue to show that polls
show the majority of Americans favor gay marriage or that acceptance of gays is
on the rise. Quite frankly, these polls
are malarkey. I know of very, very few
people who actually hate gay people,
but those individuals are so close-minded that they pretty much hate
everyone. However, those of us who
oppose gay marriage are labeled as “haters”, “bigots”, “homophobes”, “breeders”,
etc. So glad that these kinds of
disagreements always end in childish name calling. Look, I believe what the Bible says, that man
and woman are meant for each other. That
doesn’t mean that if you disagree with me that you’re a bad person, but it
doesn’t make me anti-gay. I honestly couldn’t
care less who you love, and I don’t necessarily think that there should be laws
that stand in the way of legal benefits of the life you share together. However, the definition of marriage, as I see
it, is sacred. It’s a union that, if
done correctly, is truly blessed by God.
Which is to say, it’s a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly, and if
done, should last for life. The divorce
rate is astronomical, and it’s not right.
But just because heterosexuals have fallen away from what God intended
for marriage, doesn’t mean that homosexuals should be given the right to redefine
the word to suit them.
And honestly, like immigration, the left doesn’t care about
gay rights. It’s just a means to an
end. The way I see it is that somewhere
between 3-7% - depending on what poll you’re reading (MSNBC probably thinks it’s
more like 37%) – of the population is actually gay. The strategy of the left is two-fold. 1) Paint the right as anti-gay and malign
them in the media, and 2) win over the potential gay voter by promising the
moon, but delivering a lump of coal. Oh,
sure, they may make legislative or judicial victories from time to time, but
nothing real ever changes. They claim
that gay marriage is akin to the civil rights movement of the 60s. It’s not.
1) Gay marriage isn’t a right.
And 2) the civil rights movement in the 60s was vehemently opposed by Democrats/leftists. The moral of that story is, when the left is
for something, it’s not for the good of the country.
I could go on and on and on about how lame the Court’s
ruling was today. I could go on and on
and on about how I disagree with the notion of gay marriage. I could go on and on and on about how I don’t
think you’re evil if you’re gay. But the
fact of the matter is, those who agree with me will either say they agree or
kowtow to social pressure and say that they aren’t the ones to judge (or some
menial excuse like that, instead of standing on pricinple); and those who
disagree with me will (continue to) label me as a ““hater”, “bigot”, “homophobe”,
“breeder”, etc. Which is how I know I’m
winning the argument. When one side
starts calling the other names, it means the recipient of said name-calling is
winning. Too bad there aren’t five Justices
being called names by the “tolerant” left, but not surprising.
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