[TheRealThing]

- I ran your rot by a plane captain on the George H W Bush who avidly supported DJT. He said you sounded like a guy who hated Obama so much that you believe everything you read that makes him look bad. He directly contradicted you.

- The only sidestepping I'm doing is to avoid the mounds of crap in your posts. The SCOTUS did not seek to weigh in on gay marriage as an arbiter of morality. They applied a civil principle: equal protection under the law. Now, you may be too vested in your particular way of seeing to admit that, but that's the truth, whether you can see it or not.

- LOL, I can't believe you actually got one of those guys to answer you on facebook. I know darn well he didn't tell you one thing of substance. But you think I came up with that on my own huh? The fact that this past weekend marked the very first time since the days before WW2 the US did not have a carrier group at sea is all my imagination, nobody reported on the situation. Listen, I know how desperate you are to be right. I got that. But I'm just not going to compromise in order to help you out. And this plane captain of your acquaintance denied the carrier in question was docked I suppose? Because I got news for you and him, it was.

And FTR, I had my own title while in the service of my country and I guarantee I'm not taking any backwater to whoever you say you're talking to on (CVN77) In any case, you put me and you and him at the bar, and in about 2 minutes he'd be seeing things my way.



- Thomas Jefferson September 16, 1787---- "My own general idea was that the States should severally preserve their sovereignty in whatever concerns themselves alone, and that whatever may concern another State or any foreign nation should be made a part of the Federal sovereignty; that the exercise of the Federal sovereignty should be divided among three several bodies, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, as the State Sovereignties are; and that some peaceable means should be contrived for the Federal head to force compliance on the part of the States"

Now, I don't know whether you know this or not but the Constitution does not guarantee marriage as a right. Marriage is a matter regulated by the individual states ala the vision of Jefferson. The States then, having dealt with the emerging threat of homosexuality, held referendums on the issue of gay marriage and the left's attempts to redefine marriage. Time after time the issue of gay marriage went down in defeat. Like I said, every journey begins with the first step, and now after activist judges have done their work, and through the repeal of DADT forced the US military to accept the practice from a legal standpoint, the scourge of homosexuality was thusly foisted upon this nation.

I saw the fight happen. The left usurped the will of the people in using the SC to legislate the rest of us into submission. The people tried to protect themselves from being forced into submission, but duly run State referendums were abolished by the ruling. The Court of course, had to craft their decree on law no matter how thin a stretch it was. Roe v Wade is supposedly a matter of privacy. Homosexuality got pushed through using the equal protection clause. Only problem the dissent had was in the court's creation of a class based on sexual depravity.
Antonin Scalia June 26, 2015---
“The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me,” he offers. “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,” he opines. “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 even offered what may be the first legal citation of a hippie.

“‘The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality,’” he quoted from the majority opinion before adding, “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.”

Now if you will notice, what the SC did in legalizing gay marriage was in the opinions of both Jefferson and Scalia contrary to the Constitution. Not only did the ruling strip the States of sovereignty and deny the people's will, the Court's having usurped the power of State government was not as Jefferson wrote, "divided among three several bodies, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." They (SCOTUS) jumped up and did that on their own, and Scalia was right. The Court is trying to rule by 5/4 edict.

The fact that there are people like you out there, and I mean 'out there,' makes me more than grateful to consider that you only have one vote. Hence my immense satisfaction with the results of the last election. Here's to another in the mold of Scalia and at least two more to follow! And since it is now past midnight, there remains a scant 16 days until Golf One is returned to the people's service, and the rabid chipmunks are run out of the White House.