The following comes from a June 16 The Catholic Thing article by Hadley Arkes:
Before my column appears again, and the cock crows three times, Justice Kennedy will have made up his mind as to whether he would be pleased to preserve for the American people the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
As Justice Kennedy has himself said, that arrangement has been with us for “millennia.” And yet it is Kennedy’s call, because there are four justices on the Supreme Court immanently ready to impose, as a requirement of the Constitution, virtually anything that the cultural Left is willing to advance in the name of “progress” and liberation. By simply adding his vote, Kennedy can bring about an outcome in which a bare majority of five persons can unsettle our laws and wreck an institution that has been bound up with “the laws” ever since there have been laws.
And the word has been that Justice Kennedy would prefer to accomplish his ends, in the cases on marriage, without creating another Roe v. Wade. With the decisions already taken, Kennedy and his liberal colleagues have put in motion many judges in the lower federal courts to carry through the work and install same-sex marriage even without the need for the High Court to do more.
But if Justice Kennedy stops short, how would he do it? He could hold to his earlier view in the Windsor case, where he radically and implausibly denied that the federal government had any authority to pronounce on the meaning of marriage. Marriage, he could try to say again, must depend on the laws of the States.
But at the same time he could strike down the remaining part of the Defense of Marriage Act, which also happens to be the part that I had marked as the key component of the Act when I helped design it: The States would not be obliged to respect same-sex marriages coming in from another State. Unless that point were in place, one State could indirectly nationalize same-sex marriage for the rest of the country.
Let us pray that stupidity will not reign amongst the members of the SCOTUS! That there will be at least 5 judges who will protect the definition of marriage between one natural man and one natural woman, because to do otherwise would be an embarrassment to mankind, upsetting tradition that goes back to the dawn of mankind, and I wouldn’t want to be in the immoral judges on their final judgment day. If the homosexuals want to make their promises to remain together until they visit the gates of hell for eternity that is up to them. Just don’t mock the sacrament and the institution and call it a marriage, call it by another word, like sodomy or something. By their actions the homosexuals only defy and snub God. They will deserve the…
Calling the legalization of the liaison of SS couples a marriage does NOT make it so. The basic elements of two sexes resulting in a complimentarity sexual relationship s noticably missing.
Calling it marriage does NOT make it that which God created, to which HE gave the HIS very first command: “Go forth and multiply.”
WHY ARE WE , who know better, playing into that gross error by doing so even if the “politicallly correct:” SCOTUS decision states it thus? Unh?
Who is afraid of “the big black wolf?”
So now it has become a marriage between one NATURAL man and one NATURAL women.
DNA tests before the wedding?
“DNA tests before the wedding?” = Spoken like a true pretender.
Jim McCrea visits this website to be reminded that you need to be clothed in the wedding garment of sanctifying grace if you want to go to heaven.
California Catholic Daily’s faithful posters will not do what the so called friends of the man in the story below did. Jim pretends that it is OK for a man to marry a man. Bruce Jenner pretends that he is a woman. God bless the man in the story below who would now tell Jim to stop living his particular lie that promotes homosexuality and same sex marriage.
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The man speaking in the video link below said everyone told him to also do whatever he wanted to do if it made him happy. Well he did and like Jim McCrea and YFC, he was still miserable. Jim and YFC reject Church teaching but post on CCD because they are miserably suffering a lie. We are our brother’s keeper and CCD posters will not help anyone pretend and live a lie like this man’s so called friends did.
Transvestite Realizes That He Made A Mistake, Thanks God For Deliverance
https://conservativevideos.com/transvestite-realizes-that-he-made-a-mistake-thanks-god-for-deliverance/
Well, it will be interesting.
Of course, the key is not really this decision, as most States now permit sodomite fornication-ages.
The real issue is what happens next when the Catholic Church is beset with massive litigation on everything from attacking its tax exempt status, to violations of the US Constitution under a number of arguments. This central threat to the institutional church was mentioned during oral argument, but received little comment, except for a few conservative talk show hosts. But, this area is where you will see Satan and his demon children virtually “come out”. Perhaps it is time to shut it all down, and go back to a secret church of true believers, who are all willing to die for the Faith.
More: Luckily, we all have the Southern Baptists and other Evangelicals writing letters and agreeing to public disobedience if and when the Supremes come out with their encyclical.
Look, Catholic Readers, the Supreme Court is corrupt in this day and age. And the leaders of the Catholic Church, not all, but many, are secretly gleeful of the likely positive message that will be delivered. The Church is full of mal-Catholic priests and bishops, and one proof of this is the silence in the face of the threat of the Supreme Court decision. But we do have one poor excuse for a bishop, Abp. Cupich saying Mass for dissents at the “New Faces, New Voices, New Ways of Being Church,” conference in October. Terribly sad.