Alabama's Stand Against SodoMarriage Crumbles

by JASmius



"Sweet home, Alabama"?

The crumbling took longer than I expected it would, actually:

Alabama's stand against gay marriage crumbled Friday as judges in most counties sided with federal courts rather than their own chief justice, a Republican who once called homosexuality an inherent evil.

Many counties in the Bible Belt state reversed course and began issuing the licenses to same-sex couples after the latest strongly worded order from U.S. District Judge Callie [Hand] Granade. She said Thursday that a judge could no longer deny marriage licenses to gays and lesbians, reiterating her ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

And that's all it took - a "strongly worded order" from a U.S. District Judge without the legal, constitutional authority anywhere in Article III to either issue or enforce said order.  Because the cultural imperative of federal supremacy has become so ingrained and indoctrinated in the country's law schools over the decades that it swamps the lonely stands taken by the occasional courageous jurist who knows what the Founding Document actually says and the limitations on what it actually empowers any branch of the federal government to "order".

"These numbers represent a seismic shift in favor of equality and justice. Resistance to happy, loving and committed same-sex couples getting married is quickly crumbling throughout the state," said Fred Sainz, a top spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, which has been lobbying to expand gay rights nationwide.

I dunno, Fred; I think the 81% of Alabama voters who told you Lavender Lobbyists to go sit on a jackhammer about your vicious assault on the institution of marriage spoke pretty seismically themselves nine years ago.  What entitles you and a U.S. District Judge to tyrannically override them?  The law of the jungle?  From where did Callie Granade (very appropriate surname, that) derive her "consent of the governed"?  Or does she outnumber the Alabamans who voted to keep marriage just the way God ordained it 1 to 697,591?

It is, once again, very simple.  If the backers of sodomarriage want their way legally and constitutionally, they must first get passed, whether via Congress or an Article V Convention, and ratified by at least thirty-eight States, a constitutional amendment federalizing the power to rule on marriage policy.  Otherwise no POTUS, no senator, no congressperson, and no U.S. District Judge, Appellate Judge, or Supreme Court Justice anywhere in this country has the authority to butt[BLEEP] four-fifths of a State's voters into deep-throating a policy they "explicitly" rejected.

But then, the backers of sodomarriage do NOT want their way legally and constitutionally, and they can unlawfully "have their way" with us, as in Alabama, on the grounds of sheer, popular sovereignty-nullifying federal power, the integral core of which is the American legal system's ignorantly obsequious acquiescence to it.

Which is why 'bama Chief Justice Roy Moore keeps finding himself on "the losing side".

Well, you know the old saying: "Lonely are the brave".

Exit question: Does anybody else find it strange that homosexual extremists are always trying to leech moral legitimacy from the mid-twentieth century civil rights movement, but that same mid-twentieth century civil rights movement long since ceased to be morally good enough or sufficient for the twenty-first century Black Klan?