MY ASSENT TO THE DISSENT - EXCERPTS FROM THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE

“There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged, their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!”   

PATRICK HENRY – “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!”  March 1775

READ THESE DISSENTS TO THE U S SUPREME COURT RULING THAT MANDATES HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IN ALL 50 OF THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS

“One immediate question invited by the majority’s position is whether States may retain the definition of marriage as a union of two people.  …Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective “two” in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element in 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.

…As petitioners put it, “Times can blind.” …But to blind yourself to history is both prideful and unwise.  “the past is never dead.  It’s not even past.” W. Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun.

…Unfortunately people of faith can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority today.

…It’s one thing for the majority to conclude that the constitution protects a right to same-sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority’s “better informed understanding” as bigoted.

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA

…It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me.  Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.  ..This practice of Constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied as it is today by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.

…These Justices [the majority of the Court] know that limiting marriage to one man and one woman is contrary to reason; they know that an institution as old as government itself, and accepted by every nation in history until 15 years ago, cannot possibly be supported by anything but ignorance or bigotry.  And they are willing to say that any citizen who does not agree with that, who adheres to what was, until 15 years ago, the unanimous judgment of all generations and all societies stands against the Constitution.

JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS

…Numerous amici—(Friend of the Court Filings for the information of the Justices) …have cautioned the Court that its decision here will “have unavoidable and wide-ranging implications for religious liberty.”…It appears all but inevitable that the two will come into conflict, particularly as individuals and churches are confronted with demands to participate in and endorse civil marriages between same-sex couples.

…Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice…The majority’s decision [carries with it]…potentially ruinous consequences for religious liberty.

…Today’s decision …distorts the principles on which this Nation was founded.  Its decision will have inestimable consequences for our Constitution and our society.