MARRIAGE VS. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE VS. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com - Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015

Thomas More Ctr. Files U.S. Supreme Court Brief Defending Marriage Between 1 Man & 1 Woman

Excerpts: The traditional definition of marriage represents the will of the overwhelming majority of voters in those states: 59% in Michigan; 74% in Kentucky; 62% in Ohio; and 80% in Tennessee.

The Sixth Circuit Court's decision gave the correct deference to state voters and the law they enacted that defines marriage as exclusively the union of 1 Man and 1 Woman. The Sixth Circuit Court ruled that all four marriage amendments before it, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee passed constitutional review.

This latest TMLC brief is the pinnacle filing in its efforts to stem the judge-led onslaught to redefine marriage by ignoring well-established precedent and the will of the overwhelming majority of voters.

Excerpts from TMLC's brief:

"Comparing the dilemmas of same-sex couples to the centuries of discrimination faced by Black Americans is a deceptive distortion of our country's culture and history. The disgraces in our nation's history pertaining to the civil rights of Black Americans are unmatched. No other class of individuals, including individuals who are same-sex attracted, have ever been enslaved, or lawfully viewed not as human, but as property."

"As our tradition recognizes, same truths are self-evident. Among them are that men and women are different. In fact, it is clear from our very existence that men are made for women, and women for men. None of us would be there but for that truth. The Sixth Circuit properly recognized that "[I]t is not society's laws or for that matter any one religion's law, but nature's laws (that men and women complement each other biologically), that created the policy imperative."

"There is no surer way to destroy an institution like marriage than to destroy its meaning. If 'marriage' means whatever a political activist, a cherry-picked plaintiff, or a politically unaccountable appointed judge wants it to mean, it means nothing. If it has no fixed meaning, it is merely a vessel for an unelected judge's will. It is a subterfuge for judicial legislation. And as Montesquie observed: "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"Finally, we protest Petitioners' (homosexual marriage proponents) attempt to equate this case to Loving under the banner of 'marriage equality.' Petitioner's essentially claim that their proposed redefinition improves marriage by adding a necessary element of 'equality' to it. This is certainly a clever ploy, for who can oppose equality? But that is all it is, a ploy. It is not a valid point."

"Marriage already has all the equality it can contain without destruction of its meaning, purpose, and proper boundaries. Any legally competent man can marry any legally competent woman, regardless of his or the woman's race, religion, national origin, or even sexual preference, and vice versa. The problem Petitioners claim this Court must resolve is one that does not exist. True marriage equality already exists."

"What Petitioners actually seek is not equality but instead a self-indulgent for of inclusiveness that demands acceptance, and indeed support, of a wide variety of sexual conduct. And once Petitioners' inclusiveness camel gets its nose in the marriage tent, marriage will not be a better tent; it will trampled and destroyed."  

GEORGE H. KUBECK, THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: 24 FRANK LLOD WRIGHT DR. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48106

LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM IS A FALSE AMERICAN PHILOSOPY. AS RELEVANT TODAY AS WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINNCOLN'S 1863 FAST DAY PROCLAMATION DECLARED: (FEDERER, AMERICA'S, 383-84)

"WE HAVE GROWN IN NUMBERS, WEALTH AND POWER AS NO OTHER NATION HAS EVER GROWN. BUT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD ... AND WE HAVE VAINLY IMAGINED, IN THE DECEITFULNESS OF OUR HEARTS, THAT ALL THESE BLESSINGS WERE PRODUCED BY SOME SUPERIOR WISDOM AND VIRTUE OF OUR OWN. INTOXICATED WITH UNBROKEN SUCCESS, WE HAVE HAVE BECOME TOO SELF-SUFFICIENT, TO PROUD TO PRAY TO THE GOD THAT MADE US! IT BEHOOVES US, THEN, TO HUMBLE OURSLELVES ... TO CONFESS OUR NATIONAL SINS, AND PRAY FOR CLEMENCY AND FORGIVENESS."