Tag: Obergefell

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Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller
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Did the Obergefell decision open the floodgates for judicial activism? From Howard Slugh at National Review Online:  In Obergfell, Justice Kennedy did far more than merely discover a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. He wrote that judges have an ongoing “duty” to identify and protect new “fundamental rights.” He maintained that judges should institute new […]
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A Separation of Church and Scouts

MJBubba
MJBubba
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pro deo et patria

An old-style “God & Country” scouting pin.

My congregation will not renew the Charter for the Cub Scout Pack that we have hosted for many years. This is a decision that took us over two years to reach. It makes me sad and angry to see this relationship come to an end. G-d does not like broken relationships. It was sin that caused the broken relationship between G-d and Adam, and our relationships with Him are broken by sin. In His mercy, He gave up His own Son to die so that a way was made possible to restore the broken relationship. And, though our hope rests in the restoration we look forward to, we still must live in a world that is corrupted by sin. We live in a tangle of broken relationships.

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Will Another Alito Ever Be Confirmed?

Fredösphere
Fredösphere
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Bush-Alito-051031After the Supreme Court’s latest term, a line has been drawn in the sand so clearly that even a RINO can see it without glasses.

The Obergefell decision is fairly fragile. Justice Kennedy might resign during the next president’s term, and a Republican president might appoint his replacement. But if the current balance of the court is in danger of being pushed rightward*, the Democrats will do anything to stop it. They will use the filibuster and leave the seat unoccupied, for years if necessary.

In this scenario, our best hope is that the GOP holds firm and refuses to accept another moderate like Kennedy. As long as Republicans has a majority in the Senate, they should use all available countermeasures against the filibuster, blocking bills and even holding payment of federal employees as ransom.

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Gil Reich
Gil Reich
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There are few writers I enjoy reading as much, and from whom I learn as much, as Mollie Hemingway. Her Tweet that Obergefell is the next Roe expressed a thought many on the right hold. Here’s why I think it’s wrong.  Unlike abortion, SSM is mostly about the related issues Abortion is mostly about abortion. Dead […]
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Is Polygamy Next?

Son of Spengler
Son of Spengler
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shutterstock_124665844-2John Roberts seems to think so. From his dissent in Obergefell:

Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective “two” in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not. Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world. If the majority is willing to take the big leap, it is hard to see how it can say no to the shorter one.

He continues:

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