Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Is Another Roe v. Wade
by Cathy Ruse 26 Jun 2015
Roe v. Wade created social upheaval of historic proportions.
The five justices who just ruled in favor of
same-sex marriage show the Supreme Court has learned nothing in the intervening 42 years.
Who was impacted by Roe? The abortionist whose trade
was now legal. The pregnant woman in crisis, who was abandoned and pushed
toward the clinic door. Most of all the child whose life was now deemed
unworthy of legal protection, who could not dissent or fight back. And our
culture has been wounded by the millions of private acts that caused the loss
of tens of millions of children – our heritage, our hope, and our future.
But what the Court has done this time is overtly public and
requires public participation in a significant way. So much of life involves
marriage. Everyone, whether married or not, “participates” in the social
institution of marriage.
With Roe, you could continue vehemently to disagree
with the legalized killing of unborn children – in a very public way. You could
teach your children about the dignity and worth of every human life and form
societies to do the same. You could protest outside abortion clinics and
statehouses. You could pass state laws to help women know the truth about what
they were about to do and to make ruthless abortionists more accountable.
But after today’s ruling, if you don’t approve of same-sex
marriage and you are a legislator, your voice has been silenced. If you don’t
accept it and you’re a court clerk, you must perform the ceremony or resign
your position. If you don’t like it and you’re a public schoolteacher, must you
promote it or be fired?
These can be thought of as the secondary effects of today’s
ruling, and it is impossible to predict their full reach – particularly because
so much depends on who occupies the positions of governmental power that could
bring them to bear on the rest of us.
If your sincere beliefs prevent you from bending the knee,
what recourse will you have to publicly speak out in defense of yourself, your
family, your beliefs? Will your public protests come to be viewed as hate
speech?
If you are a Christian baker, florist, banquet hall owner,
printer – can you decline to participate in a same-sex wedding? If you are a
Christian psychologist, is your license yanked if you help a client suffering
because of unwanted same-sex attraction?
If you are a religious school, may you decline to house
same-sex couples in your married student housing and keep your tax exempt
status?
If you are a church which declines to perform same-sex
marriages, will your property taxes remain exempt? Will the contributions on
which you depend diminish because they are no longer deemed charitable
contributions?
If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the Supreme
Court has just given President Obama the power to destroy churches and
institutions that do not support his “evolved” position on marriage.
All the ways in which the government provides benefits to
citizens and institutions are now potentially subject to forced participation
in the Court’s same-sex marriage edict. Every tax exemption, every license,
everything “granted” by the government can be made conditional on embracing
same-sex marriage. After all, it can be said that a professional or institution
with beliefs that run contrary to this new constitutional right is un-American,
a bad public actor, acting against the public interest.
The secondary effects of the Court’s ruling depend on who
holds the power. Particularly, who sits in the White House. The president
appoints the heads of agencies; these men and women will either respect or
attack Americans who want to live and work according to their beliefs in
marriage.
At the same time, a new president might appoint justices who
could return this profound social issue to the hands of the people, where it
belongs.
Until then, conservatives will not accept this ruling any
more than we have accepted Roe. The future of our country, of
marriage, and of our children demands no less.
Roe v. Wade
Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (November
12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon,
Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is
best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade.
Note: Harry A. Blackmun
wrote the majority decision for Roe vs.
Wade, a justice for the U.S. Supreme
Court, a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, appointed by Richard
Nixon, and Harold H. Koh was his
clerk.
Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide (PAST
RESEARCH)
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Justices Stephen Breyer,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and
Sonia Sotomayor formed the majority with Kennedy on Friday, the same lineup as
two years ago.
Anthony M. Kennedy
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Stephen G. Breyer
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Elena
Kagan is a justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society.
Sonia Sotomayor
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and was a member of the Belizean Grove.
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Richard
M. Nixon was an honorary member of the Bohemian Club, and appointed Harry Blackmun to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Henry A. Kissinger is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, Demos, Human Rights First, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a member of the Democracy Alliance, a contributor for the American Bridge 21st Century, and William D. Zabel was his
divorce lawyer.
John Stocks is the chairman for the Democracy Alliance, and an executive
director for the National Education
Association.
American Bridge 21st Century was a contributor for the National Education Association.
Demos was a funder for the National Education Association.
John I. Wilson was an executive director at the National Education Association, and is
a director at the Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Education Network.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michelle
Obama was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and a lawyer at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
James
D. Zirin is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a director at the Human
Rights First.
Mark
A. Angelson was a partner at the Sidley
Austin LLP, and a director at the Human
Rights First.
William
D. Zabel is the chair for the Human
Rights First, was a trustee at the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and was George
Soros’s divorce lawyer.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights First, Media
Matters, the Brookings Institution
(think tank),
George Soros’s
divorce lawyer was William D. Zabel, was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a contributor for MoveOn.org, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Ilyse
Hogue was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org, is a senior adviser for Media Matters, and the president for NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Harold
H. Koh was a director at the Human
Rights First, a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration,
Harry A. Blackmun’s clerk, and is
Howard K. Koh’s brother.
Howard
K. Koh is Harold H. Koh’s brother,
and the assistant secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
Sylvia
Mathews Burwell is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
King v. Burwell
Full case name
Kathleen Sebelius
was the secretary at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration, and Dora Hughes was her counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Dora Hughes was Kathleen Sebelius’s counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and is a senior policy adviser for Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Third
Way, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Susan
McCue is a trustee at the Third Way,
was Harry Reid’s chief of staff, and
a founding president & CEO for the ONE
Campaign.
Daniel
S. Loeb was a trustee at the Third
Way, and supported same-sex marriage
in New York.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr, and was a director at the Joyce Foundation.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Media Matters, and
the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Ilyse
Hogue is a senior adviser for Media
Matters, and the president for NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Harold
H. Koh was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the Human Rights First, the legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, Harry
A. Blackmun’s clerk, and is Howard
K. Koh’s brother.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), the president
emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Club (Gainesville, VA), was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
president of the Economic Club of
Washington, and a regent for the Smithsonian
Institution.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), the chancellor for the Smithsonian Institution, and the chief
justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
Walter
E. Massey was a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and an advocate for the ONE
Campaign. International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Susan
McCue was a founding president & CEO for the ONE Campaign, Harry Reid’s
chief of staff, and is a trustee at the Third
Way.
Daniel
S. Loeb was a trustee at the Third
Way, and supported same-sex marriage
in New York.
William
M. Daley is a trustee at the Third
Way, a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Ronald A. Klain
is a trustee at the Third Way, and
the coordinator of government Ebola efforts
for the Barack Obama administration,
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Health and Human Services
Secretary
On April 11, 2014, Obama
nominated Burwell to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, succeeding Kathleen
Sebelius, who announced her
resignation the day before. Her tenure as HHS secretary coincided with the
second open-enrollment period for healthcare insurance, in October 2014. This
expanded Medicaid and opened the Health Insurance Marketplace. Burwell was
confirmed as Department of HHS secretary on June 5, 2014.[19]
She was sworn into office on June 9, 2014.[20]
On October 9, 2014 the Secretary faced reporters with questions about the
federal government response to the Ebola virus disease
and the upcoming Annual enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act which begins on November 15. The HealthCare.gov
website had completed various testing actions with regard to load, end-to-end,
Alpha, and other aspects. The Secretary noted the website had reduced the
application process complexity by reducing the number of screens from over
seventy to just over a dozen website pages.
Sylvia
Mathews Burwell is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
King v. Burwell
Full case name
Howard K. Koh is the
assistant secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration, and Harold H. Koh’s brother.
Harold H. Koh is Howard K. Koh’s brother, was a
director at the Human Rights First, a
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the legal adviser at the
U.S. Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and Harry A. Blackmun’s clerk.
Harry A. Blackmun’s
clerk was Harold H. Koh, a justice
for the U.S. Supreme Court, a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, appointed
by Richard Nixon, and wrote the majority
decision for Roe vs. Wade.
Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide (PAST
RESEARCH)
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Justices Stephen Breyer,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and
Sonia Sotomayor formed the majority with Kennedy on Friday, the same lineup as
two years ago.
Anthony M. Kennedy
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Stephen G. Breyer
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society.
Elena
Kagan is a justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society.
Sonia Sotomayor
is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and was a member of the Belizean Grove.
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Richard M. Nixon
was an honorary member of the Bohemian Club, and appointed Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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