Fight On
I am going to support a Presidential candidate. I am not speaking of supporting him for office, or providing an endorsement for his candidacy. But I strongly, unswervingly, committedly, purposefully support his thoughts and the call to action. Amend the Constitution, change the members of the Supreme Court (or better yet, render them incapable of legislating from the bench – they are not the fourth branch of Government), force Congress to make new laws, or whatever else it takes. I believe our Nation is at stake. God has always moved against such vile and unGodly behavior.
Former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. and presidential candidate Rick Santorum can’t help but involve himself in the debate raging in Washington over same-gender marriage. According to the Seattle Times, Santorum responded to questions regarding Monday’s Associated Press report that Gov. Christine Gregoire had signed a law that allows same-gender couples to marry. The law is set to take effect June 7.
“I encouraged them to continue the fight,” Santorum said. “There are ebbs and flows in every battle and this is not the final word.”
Actually, it is the final word. The U.S. Supreme Court in Loving vs. Virginia decided this issue in 1967, rendering state-by-state laws regarding same-gender marriage as well as DoMA immaterial. This is fact, whether we choose to recognize the court’s authority or not.
Some would argue the decision in Loving vs. Virginia, which ended America’s prohibition of interracial marriage, doesn’t apply to same-gender marriage. But given the specific reasons cited by the court in its decision to allow interracial marriage, the decision on same-gender marriage was also rendered. It’s up to the executive branch to enforce that decision.
In Loving vs. Virginia, the court read Section 1 of the 14th Amendment and said in part, “Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival.” The court’s decision went on to speak of race, though the amendment does not — not as the result of its narrowing of opinion, on the matter but as a result of the fact the case brought before it related to an interracial marriage. In allowing one couple their marriage rights, it allowed interracial couples their marriage rights and established marriage as a “basic civil right.”
No one can read the court’s decision and conclude it would deny the same rights to same-gender couples. The court might as well have said: “Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not to marry, a person of the same gender resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”
Santorum is wrong. The fight is over. He and his kind don’t have to like it, but it’s time they accept it.
(Bob Barteley, Yahoo Contribution Network)
I am “his kind.” No Nation, no Court, no individual, can usurp the authority of Almighty God without suffering the consequences. The fight is not over! It will never be over until our Father places everyone and everything under the absolute authority of our Savior. Until then. . .fight on!
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