Don't be mislead by Democrat (Liberals).
There is no Constitutional right or protection for gay marriage. Once again, activist LAW-GIVER Liberal judges are UNCONSTITUTIONALLY changing the meaning and intend of the Constitution to suit their own personal views and beliefs!
LAW-GIVER judges have UNCONSTITUTIONALLY usurped (illegally taken) the powers assigned to Congress and are "de facto" Amending the Constitution by their rulings and decisions -- contrary to the AMENDMENT PROCESS clearly STATED in the Constitution itself!
As long as the American people permit LAW-GIVER judges to change the meaning and intent of the Constitution, WE HAVE NO CONSTITUTION!
The American people must STOP these activist Liberal LAW-GIVER judges and RESTORE the CONSTITUTION!
A little history...
Sodomy [without which there would be no gay marriage] has, until recently, been viewed and treated as a major crime. When this nation was formed, sodomy carried harsh penalties, including extended jail terms, life in prison, and even the death penalty! (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 1786, Pennsylvania became the first of the 13 American states to drop the death penalty for sodomy. The new sentence was 10 years in prison and the forfeiture of all property. (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 1788, at the time the U.S. Constitution was ratified, sodomy was a major crime in all states, with punishment ranging from extended jail sentences up to and including the death penalty in at least nine of the states! (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 1791, at the time the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments, to the Constitution was ratified, sodomy was a major crime in all states, with punishment ranging from extended jail sentences up to and including the death penalty! Nine of the original thirteen states still provided the death penalty for sodomy. (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 1868, at the time the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws up to and including life in prison and the death penalty. Four states still specified the death penalty for sodomy and eleven states provided a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 1986 the Supreme Court heard the case of Bowers v. Hardwick. The Supreme Court upheld Georgia's sodomy laws. The Justices ruled that the practice of "homosexual sodomy" was not a "fundamental right." The majority opinion, written by Byron White, pointed out that "sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights." It went on to observe that "in 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all 50 States outlawed sodomy." (No right or protection for gay marriage!)
In 2003, only 13 years later, however, in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, the activist Liberal majority on the Supreme Court struck down the Texas sodomy law, reversing the 1986 decision in which the high court had correctly upheld the Georgia statute -- not finding a constitutional protection of sexual privacy.
In the 2003 case, the activist Liberal majority on the Supreme Courts reversed history, reversed our nation's laws, and illegally and unconstitutionally proclaimed that the framers of the 14th Amendment's "due process clause" intended it to protect "liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions." clearly contrary to the history of the laws of the United States, and ALL rulings prior to it! (Judicial Activism at its finest.)
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who had voted with the majority in Bowers, agreed with the final outcome of the case, but did not join the court in reversing the high court's 1986 decision in the similar Georgia case Bowers v. Hardwick. Justice O'Connor said that she would not overrule Bowers. Instead, she would invalidate the Texas law because it applied only to same-sex couples. For her, the Georgia law in Bowers was different because it applied both to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Thomas, dissented. He said that the Court was not justified in overruling the precedent of Bowers v. Hardwick. Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion argued that states should be able to make the moral judgment that homosexual conduct is wrong and embody that judgment in criminal statutes.
The 2003 ruling was an unconstitutional ruling by activist Liberal judges, and clearly contrary to the history of the laws of the United States, and ALL rulings prior to it. In effect, the judges AMENDED [de facto] the U.S. CONSTITUTION in a manner contrary to that prescribed and permitted by the U.S. CONSTITUTION itself! The high court should have upheld the Texas law and left the decision to the states where it belonged.
But, guess what, when we permit judges to make our laws and amend the Constitution, it permits future judges to do the same thing! Since Liberals choose to ignore and abort the Constitution, who knows how a court might rule on this matter some time in the future.
By permitting activist judges to use the concept of a "living" Constitution to amend the Constitution, we in effect, have NO Constitutional GUARANTEES, RIGHTS, and PROTECTIONS!
The Constitution means only what a group of judges declares that it means at the time of their latest ruling!
Judicial activism is destroying our Constitution and our nation!
A "living" Constitution is a DEAD Constitution!
AAR