Posted by
TheChair on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:26:10 AM
I've posted on this before, but one cannot say it often enough. No matter what else you think about Barak Obama, you must realize that casting a vote for Obama is casting a vote for same sex marriage on a national level. I realize he has said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, but that simply is not enough.
Obama has also expressly come out in opposition to Proposition 8. There is no way to explain this away other than supporting same-sex marriage. Proposition 8 consists only of 14 simple words:
"Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
Barak Obama opposes this. There isn't any more simple way to accomplish preservation of marriage, so he can't claim he's for marriage while opposing Proposition 8 because of it's wording. There's nothing else to work with, here. There really is no other way to word it, it's so spare and fundamental. Even if there were, Obama hasn't proposed anything better to prove his pro-marriage bona fides. This man is Captain Lip Service.
I said voting for Obama is voting for same sex marriage on a national level. That's the truth. Obama has said he favors appointing Supreme Court justices like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, two of the reliable social liberals on the Supreme Court. These Justices routinely vote to uphold extreme, hedonistic "rights." They also tend to side away from protecting religious freedoms.
Because the issue of same-sex marriage is on three states' November
ballots (California, Arizona and Florida), it is likely to figure prominently
in the presidential election. While neither major candidate supports a federal pro-marriage constitutional amendment, McCain's federalist-for-now-plus-Alito-like-Justices position is at least coherent and is likely to
help preserve marriage in reality. Obama opposes all practical steps to preserve marriage.
Obama
would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. He opposes
California's Prop. 8 and similar constitutional amendments in other
states.
He has blasted Supreme Court Justices most likely to uphold traditional marriage. And
he is
committed to appointing Supreme Court justices likely to declare
a right to same-sex marriage exists in the Constitution.
I have been a student of American politics all my adult life. I read all major Supreme Court opinions and have as good a sense as any Court watcher where it will go on major social issues. Even now, traditional marriage is not safe in front of the current Supreme Court. One more liberal justice and we'll have same-sex marriage across America via court fiat.
One last thing. Many scholars argue that our worst President ever was James Buchanan, worse even than Carter and Harding. He's the guy who let the southern states secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected but before Lincoln could be inaugurated. Buchanan would give a technical stump speech in those days on how the Constitution didn't permit secession and how he opposed secession, but also how he was not empowered by the Constitution to do anything about it. (Lincoln proved him wrong not only on the battlefield, but by Constitutional argument.) Obama's position on traditional marriage is as pro-marriage as Buchanan's position was pro-Union... "Just words." He says he's for it, but he's ALWAYS against any practical means of making it happen. A vote for Obama truly risks the dilution and demise of the most important institution in all humanity, man-woman marriage.