MARGE SIMPSON Speaks Out on the Supreme Court Decision Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court in a 5-4 Decision legalized Same-Sex Marriage in all 50 American states, the soon to be legendary Obergefell v. Hodges Case. According to the Dissenting Justices that decision changed American society and American Law, for the worse; in fact it was common wisdom among the Dissenters that the SSM Decision rivaled Dredd Scott as the worse Supreme Court Decision Ever, the Notorious WDE.

This Blogger believes that legalizing Same-Sex Marriage is BAD GOVERNANCE by the Elite over the People;  this Blogger believes that the Supreme Court, in legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in all 50 states, is the most maladroit example  of Elitist Governance since the Shah told the Ayatollahs of Iran to Modernize or else. The Shah fell victim to the "or else"; he was overthrown and banished.

No governing Elite, in their right minds, ever officially imposes the Elite’s Elitist social values between the People  and their 2,000 year old religion. On June 26, 2015, the Liberal Governing Elite of America did just that; they  imposed their interpretation of Marriage between the people and their God. More dangerous, the Elite imposed their social views of Marriage between their Warrior Class and their God. No Good can come from that.

Only bad can come from that imposition.

What is perhaps terminally bad about this decision is that it puts every decision, every tradition, every precedence, every safeguard, every law, every regulation and every guarantee into play; for if Traditional Marriage can be changed, everything can be changed. 

The Gestalt Imperative will rear its ugly head: if Traditional Marriage is altered then everything is open to alteration. EVERYTHING. What the Liberals did in striking down the safety of Traditional Marriage was go Robespierre on Madison's Republic, blithely turning July into Thermidor or Fervidor. If Traditional Marriage is incapable of being guaranteed, there are no constitutional guarantees for anything else. In their mad desire for change, Liberals have undammed the river of change, making everything available to change....if the most sacred is not sacred then nothing is sacred, if the most traditional is not safe, then nothing is safe, as Liberals will learn. The Gestalt Imperative.

MARGE SIMPSON articulated it best in THE SIMPSON’S  episode HOMER THE HERETIC, when HOMER gave her a choice between him and her God.

“MARGE: Don't make me choose between  my man and my God, because you just can't win.”

By this Decision of the Court , the Liberal Elite has forced the phalanxes of American Believers to choose between the Republic and their God. MARGE SIMPSON knows what will happen.

If only the NOTORIOUS RBG was as wise in the ways of the world as MARGE SIMPSON, perhaps Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) would  have altered her vote and voted with the Dissenting Justices: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alioto.

Recent polls of public opinion informs all concerned  that the majority of Americans support  Same-Sex Marriage. But what does that mean?

To this Blogger, the issue in Same-Sex Marriage is not about the justice of it, or the dignity of Gays, but the survival of the Republic. Does the Republic have a better chance surviving the 21^st Century with or without Same-Sex marriage as it may go to war with Christian Russia, Communist China, the Sunni Caliphate and/or Shiite Iran?

This Blogger thinks the Republic has a better chance of surviving the 21^st Century without Same-Sex Marriage.

Why?

Because the Warrior Class of the Republic is devoutly Evangelical Christian, and the imposition of Same-Sex Marriage means that from now on they must sacrifice, and perhaps die for a Godless Republic. Make no mistake about this Reader, legalizing Same-Sex Marriage has made America into a Godless Republic for the warriors who defend the very air the Liberal Elite breathe.

The following quotes are  from the Liberal Media, from Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes, discussing the Iraqi  Army after it broke before the attack of the religious driven Sunnis of the Caliphate(aka ISIS).

“MATTHEWS:  …..On the Iraqi side, I`ve got to wonder what are they fighting for, what is the motive, the patriotic drive for someone to give up their life or even risk it in such a battle if they don`t really have a country behind it? ….. If you`re an Iraqi military commander -- say you`re halfway up the ranks, you`re a major or whatever -- and you say to your troops, Hold
the line. Don`t give up. They`re coming at us, but don`t -- don`t give --
what is your incentive? What do you say to these guys, remember the Alamo? Remember the Maine?

MATTHEWS: I`m dead serious. Wouldn`t most people say, I`m getting the
hell out of here? They gave me the uniform, they gave a monthly salary,
but I`m not going to die for this thing…..MAY 26, 2015”

CHRIS  HAYES: ….. it strikes me the issue here is deeper than
training, right? ….. there`is a deeper question here about whether these individuals want to possibly die for whatever it is they are fighting, particularly if they have no faith in the state for which they are dying or the state will be able to hold those gains once they make those sacrifices…..MAY 26,2015”

Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes have described the plight of the devout American Christian combat soldier, post legalization of Same-Sex Marriage, take the money and run, but don’t die for the newly instituted Godless Republic of America.

On April 29, 2015, this Blogger published  this Blog:Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Empower American Christians to Abjure Patriotism....

http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2015/04/legalizing-same-sex-marriage-will.html

The following is excerpted from that Blog:

 “The issue being argued for American Liberals is Love or Equal Protection under the 14^th Amendment, or Justice or Millennial Modernity.

That viewpoint is academic, adolescent, TV sitcom, and so Millennial. The real issue in front of the court is not the legalization of Same-Sex Marriage but the nitty gritty issue: How will the American Christian Warrior Class, which historically and currently defends this Republic, react to Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage?

…." Evangelicals account for 40% of America's Military;......Jews account for only one service member in three hundred." ( UPDATE 6-27-15/ BLOGGERS NOTE- three out of the five votes for Same-Sex Marriage came from Jews on the Court, a fact brought to the attention of this Blogger by a number of Christian combat soldiers and veterans, some bona fide heroes, who pointedly noted that fact in their comments to this Blogger on the Same-Sex Marriage Decision).

American Christians have always borne the heaviest burden in defending the Republic; since the end of the Draft, since the beginning of the volunteer Military, that burden has exponentially increased. Orwell’s rough men willing to do violence so that Americans can sleep peacefully at night is overwhelming American Christian.

…..The Republic is defenseless without Christians willing to fight, kill and die for it.In the cosmology of American Christians Same-Sex Marriage is Godless. Therefore, it is not wise for an American Christian, who wants to go to Heaven, to fight, kill and/or DIE in the service of a Godless Republic….

….Liberals don’t die for the Republic; they merely social engineer it.

The Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage will break the mystic chords of patriotism for American Christians; it will empower them to abjure Patriotism. 

They will still pay their taxes, go to Same-Sex Weddings, play by the rules, but they will not make a Blood Sacrifice for the Republic. The Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage will transform the American Christian Warrior class from Knights Templar, or Cromwellian Roundheads into Quakers. The Legalization of Same- Sex Marriage will turn American Christian Warriors into Jehovah Witnesses, decent citizens who will not fight to save their nation.

Some American Christians will join the Service or stay in the Service but that will be for the money or pensions.  The Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage will turn the American Combat Units into the French Army of 1940, an army going through the motions, with soldiers firing into the air before their mass surrender.

….No American Christian Combat soldier wants to go into combat outside of the fellowship of Christ; no American Christian combat soldier wants to kill another man without knowing he did it for a God fearing Republic; no American Christian combat soldier wants to die and meet his  Creator outside of the fellowship of Christ.

…This Same-Sex case  was not about Love, nor Dreams, nor Fair Play but the longevity of the Republic.

What all the lawyers from Harvard and Yale, who sit on the Supreme Court, don’t understand is that they have no power from the Constitution; all their power comes from the Blood Sacrifices of American Christians willing to die for The Republic…..THE MAXEY CHRONICLES, 4/29/2015.”

The five Justices who voted for Same-Sex marriage, voted for #LOVEWINS. That hashtag was President Obama’s signature hashtag in announcing his support for the Same-Sex Marriage  decision on TWITTER. That attitude is a vacation from history; as America’s enemies gather, that vacation from history will be a fatal flaw.

Dissenting Justice SCALIA-

The following is excerpted from Justice Scalia’s dissent: “"I join THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s opinion in full. I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy,

….The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me,

….It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best."

"But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law,

…Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its 'reasoned judgment,' thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect."

….(SCALIA QUOTES KENNEDY’S MAJORITY OPINION -"'The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality)"

SCALIA- "Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."

"The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,…If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."

"And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation,"

"But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today’s judicial Putsch."

Dissenting Justice ALITO-

The following is excerpted from Justice Alito’s dissent:

"For millennia, marriage was inextricably linked to the one thing that only an opposite-sex couple can do: procreate,....If this traditional understanding of the purpose of marriage does not ring true to all ears today, that is probably because the tie between marriage and procreation has frayed. Today, for instance, more than 40% of all children in this country are born to unmarried women. This development undoubtedly is both a cause and a result of changes in our society’s understanding of marriage."

.... the majority opinion  will be exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools..."

Dissenting Chief Justice ROBERTS-

The following is from Chief Justice Roberts’ dissent:

“[T]his Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise “neither force nor will but merely judgment.

Nowhere is the majority’s extravagant conception of judicial supremacy more evident than in its description—and dismissal—of the public debate regarding same-sex marriage. Yes, the majority concedes, on one side are thousands of years of human history in every society known to have populated the planet. But on the other side, there has been “extensive litigation,” “many thoughtful District Court decisions,” “countless studies, papers, books, and other popular and scholarly writings,” and “more than 100” amicus briefs in these cases alone. 

What would be the point of allowing the democratic process to go on? It is high time for the Court to decide the meaning of marriage, based on five lawyers’ “better informed understanding” of “a liberty that remains urgent in our own era.” The answer is surely there in one of those amicus briefs or studies.

The truth is that today’s decision rests on nothing more than the majority’s own conviction that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry because they want to, and that “it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right.”

Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational.

The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.

The Constitution itself says nothing about marriage, and the Framers thereby entrusted the States with “[t]he whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife.”

Stripped of its shiny rhetorical gloss, the majority’s argument is that the Due Process Clause gives same-sex couples a fundamental right to marry because it will be good for them and for society. If I were a legislator, I would certainly consider that view as a matter of social policy. But as a judge, I find the majority’s position indefensible as a matter of constitutional law.

Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective “two” in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not. Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world. If the majority is willing to take the big leap, it is hard to see how it can say no to the shorter one. It is striking how much of the majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim of a fundamental right to plural marriage.

When asked about a plural marital union at oral argument, petitioners asserted that a State “doesn’t have such an institution.” But that is exactly the point: the States at issue here do not have an institution of same-sex marriage, either.

Those who founded our country would not recognize the majority’s conception of the judicial role. They after all risked their lives and fortunes for the precious right to govern themselves. They would never have imagined yielding that right on a question of social policy to unaccountable and unelected judges. And they certainly would not have been satisfied by a system empowering judges to override policy judgments so long as they do so after “a quite extensive discussion.”

In cosmological terms, the combat soldiers of the Republic now believe , because of the legalization of Same-Sex Marriage,  that their lives are no longer protected by a gracious Divinity. The Divine will no longer interfere in the affairs of the American Republic to save it from defeat, as God did during the Revolutionary War (the “Divine Fog”), the War of 1812(the rain storm which saved the White House), the Civil War (Little Round Top), World War II (Midway, D-Day), and the Race for the Atomic Bomb).

Our enemies know that there is no better time to strike a Godless Republic than when it has a demoralized Military, a clueless civic society and  an adolescent  smug Elite.

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