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'JUDICIAL DESPOTISM' IGNITES CONSERVATIVE RESPONSE

A battle cry for what Christians should do next

It’s a ruling that’s been called “judicial despotism.” The June 2015 decision by the Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages continues to send shock waves reverberating across the land.

Critics point out the decision supplied no compelling reasoning to show why it is unjustified for the laws of the states to sustain marriage as it has been understood for millennia as the union of husband and wife.

Dissenting Justice Clarence Thomas said the opinion “exalts judges at the expense of the People from whom they derive their authority” as it perverts the meaning of liberty into an entitlement to government action.

Dissenting Justice Samuel Alito called attention to the well-established doctrine that the “liberty” guaranteed by the due process clause protects only those rights “that are deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” and that it is “beyond dispute that the right to same-sex marriage is not among those rights.” He further points to the opinion’s tendency to reduce the purpose of marriage to “the happiness of persons who choose to marry.” He warns it will be used to “vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy” and is yet another example of the “Court’s abuse of its authority.”

Immediately following the decision, the White House decked itself with rainbow colors – an act that clearly was not impromptu, which calls into question how far in advance the Obama administration knew the outcome of the ruling.

Maggie Gallagher of American Principles in Action notes many people reject the idea that “in our Republic the Supreme Court gets to decide what the Constitution means and the rest of us just have to submit and accept.”

A statement issued by APA notes, “We have great respect for judges. We have even greater respect for law. When judges behave lawlessly, it is the law that must be honored, not lawless judges.

“The Supreme Court is supreme in the federal judicial system. But the justices are not supreme over the other branches of government. And they are certainly not supreme over the Constitution.

In Obergefell v. Hodges, five justices, without the slightest warrant in the text, logic, structure, or historical understanding of the Constitution presumed to declare unconstitutional the marriage laws of states that maintain the historic and sound understanding of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife.

“Obergefell is not ‘the law of the land.’ It has no more claim to that status than Dred Scott v. Sandford had when President Abraham Lincoln condemned that pro-slavery decision as an offense against the very Constitution that the Supreme Court justices responsible for that atrocious ruling purported to be upholding.”

It was predicted that those holding traditional views of marriage as a the covenantal partnership of one man and one woman would become vilified, legally targeted, and denied constitutional rights in order to pressure them to conform to the new orthodoxy.  This has been seen over and over again, such as restaurant owners who are threatened, harassed and run out of town – not for refusing service, but merely for expressing an opinion.

Many Christian conservatives are wondering what to do next.

“Some suggest we retreat from politics, because (and they are right about this) politics is not enough,” notes Gallagher. “The true Benedict Option [becoming a hermit] in the contemporary world is not available – there is nowhere to go that aggressive equality progressivism may not follow. For cultural reasons alone, politics is too important to abandon. Then there is the practical question of who will prevent the more aggressive equality progressives from redefining Christian views as the equivalent of racism and using powerful legal and cultural levers to repress Christian ideas from the public square and our own children.”

Gallagher notes the problem is Christian conservatives are too-little invested in politics. They generate partisan hostility without building the army of activists, donors and especially networks to carry the message and protect Christians, as well as making it “expensive” to hurt them.

At the moment, conservative Christians are vulnerable to the vindictive harassment that comes in the wake of such landmark overreach of power.

One option is to sign the call to action put out by the Campaign for American Principles (CAP), urging presidential candidates to reject judicial edicts that undermine the sovereignty of the people, the Rule of Law and the supremacy of the Constitution.

“We will resist them by every peaceful and honorable means,” notes Prof. Robert George of CAP. “We will not be bullied into acquiescence or silence.”

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My comments:This SCOTUS Ruling is Satanic, and Against God, who made humans male and female and Marriage between a man and a woman. It is all Preparation for the Revealing of the son of Satan, the Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist, who the Whole World will worship and receive his "mark." Christians have an obligation to fight this Ruling, primarily by electing people who will Honor God and His Word, understanding that Obama and the Democrats are godless, Socialist, Secular Humanists, Emissaries of Satan, doing his bidding.