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Zombie Justices Reign Supreme - they just made homosexual marriage up?

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High court's new liberal interpretation of the Constitution may mean the end of law-making as we know it If five U.S. Supreme Court justices can concoct a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage, what else might they impose? Just about anything on the Left’s agenda. Until barely a decade ago, the laws of every state had always defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. That was true when the Constitution was first established, and it was true when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. The intelligent citizen will reasonably wonder how five Supreme Court justices could have ruled two weeks ago that these state laws violate the 14th Amendment and that there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The short answer: Those five justices were just making it up. Oh, to be sure, Justice Anthony Kennedy ’s majority opinion tries to dress things up in the sort of legal-sounding jargon designed to mystify non-lawyers. But Kennedy and the four liberals

Alabama chief justice calls on all 50 governors to enshrine true marriage in the US Constitution

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MONTGOMERY, AL , February 7, 2014 – In 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office after refusing to remove the 10 Commandments from the front of the state's highest court. Now, after winning back his old job, he is back in the spotlight after sending a letter to all 50 governors urging them to enshrine marriage in the U.S. Constitution . “The time to act is upon us if we mean to preserve the basic foundations of marriage and family upon which our Country rests,”  writes  Moore. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore He has also  called  for an Article V Convention , a mechanism in the US Constitution that allows the states to pass constitutional amendments. Thirty-four states would have to agree to the convention and then three-quarters of states, 38 states, would have to ratify amendments proposed by those at the convention. An Article V Convention has not been held since America ’s founding. Currently, 17 states – 34 percent of the 50 states – and the