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Did Justice Kennedy make up legal argument to promotoe homosexual marriage?

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English: Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Everything has changed and nothing has changed. The Supreme Court’s decision today is a central assault upon marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman and in a 5-4 decision the nation’s highest court has now imposed its mandate redefining marriage on all 50 states. As Chief Justice Roberts said in his dissent, “The majority’s decision is an act of will, not a legal judgment.” The majority’s argument, expressed by Justice Kennedy , is that the right of same-sex couples to marry is based in individual autonomy as related to sexuality, in marriage as a fundamental right , in marriage as a privileged context for raising children, and in upholding marriage as central to civilization. But at every one of these points, the majority had to reinvent marriage in order to make its case. The Court has not merely ordered that same-sex couples be allowed to marry — it

Is worldwide Gay marriage the pre-text to the coming premillennialist?

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English: The Supreme Court of the United States. Washington, D.C. Français : La Cour suprême des États-Unis. Washington D.C., États-Unis. ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Høyesterett i USA. Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What the Supreme Court of the United States did last week was simply play catch-up with the many other countries that were ahead of it in the headlong pursuit of institutionalized ungodliness. South Africa ’s constitution, for one sad example, protects not only same-sex marriage but also polygamy and late-term abortion. Many other “enlightened” nations have come full circle. Having previously embraced Christian morality , and enjoyed centuries of resultant civil, educational, and legal progress, they have now begun to pine for the leeks and onions of their Egyptian slave masters who at least didn’t tell them who they could marry. Denmark, the Netherlands , and other post-reformation societies have shrugged off the fuddy-duddy conservatisms of their puritanical for