Oh noes! The conservatives are having their right to trample other people's rights trampled.
Oh, the humanity.
PUNDIT RIGHT > Olson: Is Same-Sex Marriage Really a Conservative Value?
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2010/08/09 15:41:17
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Conservative attorney (and former Bush Solicitor General) Ted Olson showed Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace why he was successful in arguing for a federal ruling that toppled California Prop 8 same-sex ban. Wallace threw every talking point at Olson, but Olson never wavered in his assertion that a strict conservative interpretation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights requires that same-sex marriages be allowed. Some highlights:
OLSON: We do not put the Bill of Rights to a vote … We ask judges to make sure that when we vote for something, we’re not depriving minorities of their Constitutional rights ... It’s not judicial activism when judges do what the Constitution requires them to do and they follow the precedent of previous decisions of the Supreme Court.
... If seven million Californians were to decide that we should have separate but equal schools or that we would send some of our citizens to separate drinking fountains or have them be in the back of the bus - that would be unconstitutional.
... Well, would you like your right to free speech? Would you like Fox’s right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states approved it, let’s wait till the other 45 states do? These are fundament constitutional rights. The Bill of Rights guarantees Fox News and you, Chris Wallace, the right to speak.
… Marriage is a conservative value.
At the end, even Wallace had to admit defeat: “Mr. Olson, we want to thank you so much for joining us today. We’ll keep following your lawsuit. And I gotta say, after your appearance today, I don’t understand how you ever lost a case in the Supreme Court, sir.”
Are Same-Sex Marriages Really a Conservative Value?
OLSON: We do not put the Bill of Rights to a vote … We ask judges to make sure that when we vote for something, we’re not depriving minorities of their Constitutional rights ... It’s not judicial activism when judges do what the Constitution requires them to do and they follow the precedent of previous decisions of the Supreme Court.
... If seven million Californians were to decide that we should have separate but equal schools or that we would send some of our citizens to separate drinking fountains or have them be in the back of the bus - that would be unconstitutional.
... Well, would you like your right to free speech? Would you like Fox’s right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states approved it, let’s wait till the other 45 states do? These are fundament constitutional rights. The Bill of Rights guarantees Fox News and you, Chris Wallace, the right to speak.
… Marriage is a conservative value.
At the end, even Wallace had to admit defeat: “Mr. Olson, we want to thank you so much for joining us today. We’ll keep following your lawsuit. And I gotta say, after your appearance today, I don’t understand how you ever lost a case in the Supreme Court, sir.”
Are Same-Sex Marriages Really a Conservative Value?
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jesusf*ckingchrist™ 2010/08/09 19:10:23
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I'm tired of this topic.
lets talk guns
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As long as gay marriage isn't legalized, that will be seen as untrue in the eyes of many.
Google this: "Lee Atwater Nigger, Nigger". Lee Atwater, again, is the guy who advised Reagan, got Bush Sr. elected and mentored Karl Rove.
" your either with us (them) or against us (them)"....
- peace!
The point is, you can't treat minorities like second-class citizens. It was done with blacks (albeit they suffered through more violence). Now, homosexuals are facing a similar uphill battle for their rights. Keep fighting! I may live long enough to witness the dawning of a new era...an era in which EVERYONE is guaranteed rights.
What has happened with same-sex marriage, as it began in many state's and threatens to spread across the country, we've seen in its wake the loss of religious freedoms and the ability to speak out based upon one's moral convictions.
"So-called 'same-sex' marriage is counterfeit marriage. Marriage is, and has always been, between a man and a woman. We know that it's in the best interest of children to be raised with a mother and a father. To use children as guinea pigs in radical San Francisco-style social experimentation is deplorable."
Good luck in your close-minded immoral view of the world.
It's nice that you found a picture of yourself.
Oh, the humanity.