The following comes from a Feb. 9 posting on MyWay.com.
The Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained Monday in a stinging dissent to the court’s refusal to block the start of same-sex marriages in Alabama.
Bitterly objecting to Monday’s action, Thomas provided a rare insider’s perspective on the widely held view that the court’s embrace of gay marriage is a done deal.
Thomas filed a dissenting opinion after his colleagues rejected Alabama’s plea to put a hold on same-sex marriages in the state until the Supreme Court resolves the issue nationwide in a few months.
He criticized his fellow justices for looking “the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws,” rather than following the customary course of leaving those laws in place until the court answers an important constitutional question.
“This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution of that question,” Thomas wrote in an opinion that was joined by Justice Antonin Scalia. “This is not the proper way” for the court to carry out its role under the Constitution, he wrote, “and, it is indecorous for this court to pretend that it is.”
The opinion was remarkable less for the legal result it suggested than for its open criticism of fellow justices.
After all, many legal commentators have predicted not only the case’s outcome this spring (in favor of same-sex marriage), but the vote (5-4) and the author of the majority opinion (Justice Anthony Kennedy).
The number of states in which gay and lesbian couples can marry has nearly doubled since October, from 19 to 37, largely as a result of terse Supreme Court orders that allowed lower court rulings to become final and rejected state efforts to keep marriage bans in place pending appeals.
“If you read the tea leaves the Supreme Court is leaving, the bans on same-sex marriage can’t be permitted. They’re unconstitutional,” said University of California-Berkeley law professor Jesse Choper.
Alabama became the 37th state in which same-sex couples can marry, following U.S. District Judge Callie Granade’s ruling in January that struck down as unconstitutional the state’s statutory and constitutional bans.
Granade had put her order on hold until Monday to let the state prepare for the change, and State Attorney General Luther Strange had asked for the delay to be extended for at least a few months.
Monday morning, probate judges in Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, some of whom had been lined up for hours.
“It’s about time,” said Shante Wolfe, 21, as she left the courthouse in Montgomery with wife Tori Sisson. They had camped out in a blue and white tent to be the first in the county given a license.
The Supreme Court often freezes lawsuits in place when they raise the same issue the court already has agreed to decide. And when federal courts declare state laws unconstitutional, “our ordinary practice,” Thomas wrote, is to prevent those rulings from taking effect while they are being appealed.
But since October, the justices have repeatedly turned away state requests to keep same-sex marriages from taking place until appeals are resolved.
Alabama’s plea was the first since the court stepped into the issue last month to take up a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
The court has been silent about the reasons for its actions in the gay marriage cases. It similarly offered no explanation for orders in a series of challenges to state voter ID and registration laws in the fall, or for a decision to allow an execution in Oklahoma to proceed eight days before deciding to hear a challenge to the controversial sedative the state uses in lethal injection executions.
“Part of what gives us all a sense of finality and a sense of acceptance about decisions is knowing that the court has thought about it,” said University of Chicago law professor Will Baude, a former law clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts. Baude uses the term “shadow docket” to refer to unexplained orders. “For the public at large, that can over time harm the court’s legitimacy.”
Thomas has previously made known his support for keeping the same-sex marriage prohibitions in place until the court issues its decision. Although he did not note it in October, he later said he had voted at that time to take up gay marriage when the court rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve same-sex marriage bans.
Thomas and Scalia also have been in dissent from the three major pro-gay rights decisions at the Supreme Court since 1996, all written by Kennedy. When the court struck down part of the anti-gay marriage federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito also dissented.
Michael Dorf, a former Kennedy law clerk who teaches at Cornell University, said the absence of Roberts and Alito from Thomas’ dissent Monday suggests those justices could be part of a broader majority in favor of same-sex marriage this year, with Roberts the more likely candidate.
Other than that, Dorf said, the justices’ order allowing same-sex marriage to begin in Alabama, “is further evidence that the court intends to reverse the 6th circuit and find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.”
There is little doubt that the Supreme Court. lead as it is by renegade Catholics in union with Democratic Party Liberals, will affirm homosexuals the right to marry in any state. The trend of the High Court is to put a political happy face on issues dealing with “religion”; and, of course, Chief Justice Roberts is notoriously concerned about how “the public” views the Court.
True Catholics see the Supreme Court, minus Justices Scalia and Thomas, as nothing more or less than an intellectual enforcer of the Democratic Party, and its worn-out notions of liberalism. Ironically, Justice Kennedy — a CINO of first order — will plant the kiss on Jesus’ cheek on the way to receiving holy communion from Cardinal Wuerl “The Girl”, the ardently simpering, mincing, whiny voice of Catholicism in Washington, DC. That is, it is widely assumed as likely that Kennedy, who authored recent opinions dealing with homosexual rights, will be assigned the task of writing the final opinion. Of course, “Dread Pirate Roberts” may wish to rob Judas-Kennedy of this honor, so that the Chief Justice can assume the glory.
Of course, Robers intellectual luster has loss its polish since his simply bizarre reasoning in the Obama Care opinion, but that is a different story. So, why is this important? It is important to show the true corruption of ideas at work in the Supreme Court. No justice of Liberal bent would write anything not scripted by the Democratic Party.
“We shall either nobly save or meanly lose this last best hope on earth.”
A. Lincoln 1862
The Turkey Baster Creationist ‘justice’ system in POTUS Barry ‘On the Down Low’ Soetoro’s Abomination has just about finished its Fundamental Transformation – and as Barry & his Mentors Saul Alinsky and the very reverend ‘g.d.a.’ Wright had hoped and intended…
The Nation will be Divided and Dissolved in a manner even Lincoln could not have foreseen – but Perhaps Stalin dreamed of during His Purges.
The Catholic Church will be Next in the target sights of their Gaystapo – and as with the Pogroms of their Homo-Nazi predecessors began with Dachau…
– New Tolerance Training Camps will doubtless be needed to encourage the politically incorrect to Pander – or Remove them as an impediment to ‘progress’.
Mr. McDermott may well be right (“The Catholic Church will be Next in the target sights of the Gaystapo …”). If homosexual “marriage” becomes a “right,” there is really no other major battle for the godless perverts to engage in; polygamy and euthanasia will be minor skirmishes compared to the issue of homosexual “marriage.” They can then turn their efforts to attempting to destroy the Catholic Church, the last major upholder of moral values.
Houda Thunk It?
How Could POTUS Barry Soetoro Ever Lie to the “Stupid American Voters” – it must be a ms.stake in media translation, or just another in a long list of ‘necessary fibs’:
SEE
Obama Advisor Admits Obama Lied About Gay Marriage
Former-Senior Advisor to President Obama David Axelrod admits in a new book that Obama lied about his opposition to gay marriage in order to become president.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2015/02/10/obama-advisor-admits-obama-lied-about-gay-marriage-n1955359
The laugh of the day: “There is little doubt that the Supreme Court. lead as it is by renegade Catholics in union with Democratic Party Liberals, …”
The Supreme Court is signaling that the United States of America will legally become a Sodom and Gomorrah in addition to legally killing unborn babies. God’s anger is already evident in the weather. Watch out for chaos!
You mean global warming is already evident in the weather.
I agree with Joel! Our country has truly lost her original Judeo-Christian foundations! America is lost, just like the Children of Israel, in the Bible! America must return to God, or she will suffer terribly, due to consequences of very serious sin! No human “High Court” can state the false “legality” of baby murders, abortion, nor the false “legality,” of deviant sex acts, of people who are abnormally ill– and call that “marriage!” (“Legal” adoption of helpless, innocent children, in these corrupt, immoral gay unions, is even worse!) YOU CANNOT FOOL GOD!!
As if married opposite couples don’t engage in “deviant” sex acts! LOL! No one is claiming they’re not married.
How do you know peter, since you are a deviant homosexual ? – (per pervious posts of yours.)
Please . . .
No we don’t our minds are not concerned what goes between our legs…we have more mature things to do like raise a family.
married people have sex?
Why a “laugh”, “Jim McCrea”? The record is reasonably clear. On one hand you have a small, very small, group of thinkers, Scalia and Thomas, who try to faithfully adhere to the Constitution, as well as recognizing the Judeo-Christian roots of much of the legal system.
Then you have Justice Kennedy, someone who would feel at home in the most liberal Catholic group. His opinions, given in homosexual “rights” cases, are tortured and border on the nonsensical. We can refer to him as the “Brian Williams Catholic School” of jurisprudence; much worse than your run of the mill CINO.
Then, there are Justice Alito and “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Clearly intelligent men, and clearly moving away from their Catholic underpinnings, at least to the extent that their Faith serves as a “reminder” of the foundational aspects of Natural Law on the Constitution. Roberts is lost in trying to make each important opinion a cornerstone of his legacy as the CJ of the Roberts Court. Alito is increasingly moving toward that dreaded “center” which is really about 65% toward the Left.
Then you have Justice Sotomayor, who, although “raised Catholic” has nary a Catholic bone in her body. We should call her the representative of the “Nancy Pelosi School” of Catholic jurisprudence.
With a small exception, this is a court of constitutional cowards. How many dissents will there be in the Homosexual Marriage case? Two, three (assuming this to be Alito)?
Very good post, St. Christopher! We need a Church that is VERY SERIOUS about Christ’s teachings on Faith and Morals! MORTAL SIN is a very serious, and dangerous thing! Eventual loss of one’s soul, to Satan, is horrible beyond words! That is exactly the direction “bad” Catholics are headed in, and too many of them are in top leadership positions, in our country!! All Catholics who are immoral, who also promote immoral beliefs shamelessly— and refuse to repent– need a letter of EXCOMMUNICATION from their bishop, right now!! A letter of excommunication will clearly tell the WHOLE WORLD– just where a “bad” Catholic stands, with God and the Church!! NO QUESTION!! That way, a lot of immorality will lessen– and the world will have much more respect for God, and His Church!! When a “bad” Catholic, who is excommunicated, gets up to speak– people will be less interested in listening to them! Poorly-educated Catholics will also learn a great lesson! Our American Supreme Court is SHAMEFUL!!
I’m guessing the SCOTUS vote on the issue of same-sex marriage will be 9-0! There are times when the court leads the nation, and times when it follows the nation. With 37 states already allowing same-sex marriage, I doubt that the court will overturn that many laws. On the other hand, they have done it with a flair – Marbury v Madison, Gibbons, Dred Scott, Plessy v Ferguson, Griswold, Roe v Wade, Bakke, Doma, Riley v California, and Bush v Gore (perhaps the worse decision they ever made?). You never know how they will come down on an issue. The same-sex marriage cases they will review all, as I understand it, relate to civil right protection. Those are hard to overturn by any court.
Bob One, do you really think that homosexualJustice Elena Kagan will vote against homosexual marriage when she has married same sex couples herself ?
What are you smoking?
Think he means 9-0 in favor.
Somehow doubt it… At least Scalia and Thomas will dissent.
There’s been lots of talk about how the Supreme Court will rule, and whether any of them would want to be a remembered as a dissenting justice in Brown v. Board of Education.
Bob One, 37 states allow same-sex “marriage” because Federal judges have overthrown the will of the people in almost all of those states.
“tThe absence of Roberts and Alito from Thomas’ dissent Monday suggests those justices could be part of a broader majority in favor of same-sex marriage this year.”
I would say this is over.
You are likely correct, “Dave N”. However, it is also likely that, at least, Scalia and Thomas will dissent.
The question becomes what happens to Justice Alito. It seems that “Dread Pirate Roberts” moves to the majority side (and he will likely do all he can to have a unanimous decision).
This is beyond sad, but quite understandable regarding how it came about.
The Catholic Church, of course, is in the wings, as the HomoFascist assault will be without let-up after it wins on the Homosexual Marriage issue. They are sure to raise, among other things, the tax exempt status of the Church, and will likely do so along the lines of the Bob Jones decision of the Supreme Court: Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983) (recognizing, in a 8-1 decision, Rehnquist dissenting, that the IRS could revoke the University’s tax exempt status in furtherance of a compelling objective — eradicating racial discrimination).
There are other important, and crippling, strategies that will likely also be attempted (but are not further discussed here to avoid “feeding the beast”). However, whatever is attempted, this will be a time for courage for the Church: economic, political, and spiritual. Sadly, under its present leadership, the Church will be only too happy to embrace homosexual sex as a legitimate activity of Mankind. At this point, the true test of the Faith’s believers will be manifest (if not earlier, through the outcome October’s Synod).
The Family Research Council is a great source for fact checkers – which is just one reason it is on the ‘splc’ Hit List – used by Homosex Activist Gunman F. Corkins to target them and shoot a security guard – little of which if any was ‘reported’ by the lamesteam media:
SEE
Obama Suffers from Truth Decay (FRC)
It’s a good thing President Obama doesn’t work for NBC — or else he might have been suspended for lying too! Like the NBC’s Brian Williams, voters would have a difficult time narrowing down all the untruths to one.
This President has told so many whoppers that Burger King should name a sandwich after him! David Axelrod, a former political advisor, spilled the beans about one of the President’s most unconvincing fibs in his new book, Believer.
Although it was no secret to anyone who followed Obama’s early career, the candidate-and-later-President was fully on board with same-sex “marriage” from Day 1…
Now, Axelrod is forcing the President out of the closet on his motivations, saying that he deliberately compromised just to advance his career.
In particular, the former top advisor said, the African-American community’s overwhelming support for natural marriage drove the decision to hide his true colors.
“Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position…”
“Family Research Council is a great source for fact checkers ” LOL! Right . . .
LOL Indeed – such insightful rebuttal seems the norm for the Trolls on this board… But then we should all just Scroll by the Troll.
On the other hand, there is Solid Evidence for the Good, such as:
“New Research on Same-Sex Households Reveals Kids Do Best With Mom and Dad
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14417/
Published research employing the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), the ECLS (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), the US Census (ACS), the Canadian Census, and now the NHIS all reveal a comparable basic narrative, namely, that children who grow up with a married mother and father fare best…”
As commented on by . . . Regerous?
But most people already know that and agree: Children do better when their parents are married; ergo, same-sex marriage is a social good. And that’s exactly what the supreme court will recognize. I love it when new research supporting the benefits of marriage comes out just in time for court rulings.
“peter”: no homosexual should ever adopt a child. The law permitting this is perverse, and is based only on the fear of political and social rejection.
Interesting, that in another recent article on CCD, Fr. Sullins notes the high emotional burden experienced by children of homosexual sexualists. Society should be ashamed that it put at risk its own little ones in this way.
Wait, wait — haven’t over 54 million pre-born babies been murdered by their own mothers? . . And, doesn’t society permit this? . . . And, doesn’t Congress actually like this practice, as it gives over $500 million to Planned Parenthood so that a good profit can be made by this murder?
So, “peter” you comment is simply inane, as no child does better when it is living in the horror house of two mommies or two daddies. Nothing like interrupting old Dad and Dad swapping spit (and other things) on the family chesterfield, is there? The sole benefit to court decisions for homosexuals is to permit them to engage in perversion out in the open; no social good can ever result from the coupling of sodomites.
The Governor of Oregon has Resigned amidst media Scandal – Contrary to former Frisco Mayor Gravid Nuisance, who went on to become ‘Gov.Lt’ and now is a Candidate for Gov – Despite his deplorable Abuse of Subordinates & Adulterous Betrayal of his own campaign manager.
Why the Difference in Treatment – The Gaystapo is in charge, and their Agenda overrides any ‘Scandal’ that doesn’t enforce their Pander or Perish Agenda / Alliance.
COMPARE the Response to Candidate Adultery – As Most CA Media Never Once Reported This:
AIDE QUITS AS NEWSOM’S AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE IS REVEALED / Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is ‘in shock’
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/AIDE-QUITS-AS-NEWSOM-S-AFFAIR-WITH-HIS-WIFE-IS-2652745.php
VS.
Whither the B in LGBTQ?
https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/69766?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=b81c0f23f1-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-b81c0f23f1-291122069
The Complicit Media is in a twitter about the ascendance of Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown to the Governorship because she is alleged to be the first “openly bisexual” Governor in history.
She is married. Somehow the implications of this escape the Emperor-Has-No-Clothes crowd.
Trolls Abound with Dys-Information.
The Studies Clearly Show a HETEROSEXUAL Mother & Father (BTW all procreation is Heterosexual xx & xy, regardless of how joined) in an Intact Household are the BEST.
Step Parents and others may have to fill in where this Ideal fails for one reason or another – but that is Not to endorse the Sick Misandry (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) of the Gaystapo Alliance / Agenda as in any way being ‘equivalent’.
Parents (as opposed to Caregivers, who fill in) are necessarily of the Opposite Sex – anything else is a Lie.
This is what happens when Diocese Bishops do NOT do their own jobs of correcting/teaching Catholic judges and politicians, and discipline as necessary using Canon 915.
By not Denying Holy Communion to Those Obstinately Persevering
in Manifest Grave Sin – they become remote participants in the sin, and full participants in the scandal.
Sally, do you really think that Supreme Court justices don’t know the Catholic position?
These are people who have proved themselves to be brilliant researchers. If they didn’t know as a child, they certainly have found out as an adult and a professional. Sources like the CCC and Vatican encyclicals are hardly difficult reading for one versed in legal research.
Legalization of Contraception – 1965;
Legalization of Pornography – 1969;
Abortion – murder of innocent human beings for the convenience of others in 1973;
Same sex marriage in 2015;
Euthanasia in 2016;
Polygamy in 2017;
Beastiality in 2018.
After all,its freedom right ? ? ? ? ?
And they want ALL taxpayers to help pay for most of these,
along with their Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
This is what happens when you vote for immortal politicians like OBAMA, CLINTON, etc.
They appoint judges and other decision makers of like mind.
Looking forward to 2018 are you?
peter, not looking forward to 2018 – if Americans continue to elect DEMOCRATIC Pro-DEATH politicians, who in turn appoint Pro-DEATH judges and high ranking bureaucrats.
Since 1973 over 54 MILLION innocent human beings have been tortured and murdered (aborted)
within the USA alone for the convenience of others.
Dum, dum, da-dum, dum, dum, da-dum, dum, dum da-da, da-dum, dum, da-dum!
What a morally deprived an sick world we live in. Like Our Lady said, before the end of sinful mans times on earth,’ even the elect will be deceived!’
BTW – sometimes the Automatic ‘spell-check’ here operates more like a spoolchucker….Ahem.
“Town Hall” is http://www.Townhall.com Website – not the ‘downhill’ place that the system put in my post, even after I corrected the misprint.
Hence – Humans make errors, but computers are capable of repeating ‘false logic’ ad-infinitum, which is kind of like a really long time, only longer.
NEWS ALERT – Alabama’s Chief Justice Moore Cleans CNN Host’s Clock in Same-Sex Marriage Debate
https://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?
In what CNN billed as an epic “debate,” Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore, gave CNN’s host of “New Day” Chris Cuomo a lesson in the law.
Obviously acting as a stalking horse for the same-sex marriage crowd, Cuomo attempted to embarrass Justice Moore with his questions, but, to his apparent chagrin Justice Moore continued to calmly correct him on the facts and the law.
Realizing he was losing the “debate,” Cuomo kept on changing the questions, and Justice Moore continued to school Cuomo in Constitutional law.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, said,
“As the law currently stands, Justice Moore is right. And I applaud him for his courageous and dignified stand for both the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Alabama.”
To get a full understanding of Justice Moore’s legal reasoning, read the legal memorandum he sent to Alabama Probate Judges, dated February 3, 2015.
A (hopefully) corrected link to the story at TMLC – Thomas Moore Legal Center
https://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=adf1a83154acea60d091b413c&id=10846a0efa&e=5574f0c917
NEWS ALERT – Alabama’s Chief Justice Moore Cleans CNN Host’s Clock in Same-Sex Marriage Debate
In what CNN billed as an epic “debate,” Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore, gave CNN’s host of “New Day” Chris Cuomo a lesson in the law.
Obviously acting as a stalking horse for the same-sex marriage crowd, Cuomo attempted to embarrass Justice Moore with his questions, but, to his apparent chagrin Justice Moore continued to calmly correct him on the facts and the law.
Realizing he was losing the “debate,” Cuomo kept on changing the questions, and Justice Moore continued to school Cuomo in Constitutional law.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, said,
“As the law currently stands, Justice Moore is right. And I applaud him for his courageous and dignified stand for both the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Alabama.”
To get a full understanding of Justice Moore’s legal reasoning, read the legal memorandum he sent to Alabama Probate Judges, dated February 3, 2015.
Not in the Shadows Anymore – the Gaystapo is In Your Face and Your Wallet & will Take Your Home & Business unless…
You Pander or Perish – just like their ‘good ole days’ of Their prior Homo-Nazi “Fundamental Transformation” of society.
SEE
Bakers Who Denied Service to Gay Couple Found to Violate Law
https://dailysignal.com/2015/02/09/bakers-declined-service-sex-couple-found-violate-anti-discrimination-law/?
The owners of an Oregon bakery who declined to make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding celebration were found guilty last week of violating the state’s anti-discrimination law.
The bakery owners, Aaron and Melissa Klein of Sweet Cakes By Melissa, contend they were adhering to their Christian beliefs that marriage is between a man and a woman.
On Monday, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries announced the couple will have to pay up to $150,000 for violating the Oregon Equality Act of 2007.
Aaron said the fine would bankrupt the couple and their five children.