Posted by
W. Austerman on Monday, February 23, 2009 2:10:00 AM
Yesterday I was forced to make do with final winners of the Academy Awards, since it replaced ABC’s Desperate Housewives, CBS’s The Unit was a rerun, and NASCAR Racing replaced FOX’s American Dad. Usually I don’t watch the Oscars because I think it’s rigged. I mean dose a piece of white-trash like rap artist Eminem really deserve such a high honor for the trash he calls music??? My opinion for the Oscars were once again confirmed with the Oscar for Best Actor going to
Mr. Sean Penn for his role of glorifying gay marriage as a homosexual. Excuse me while I take a moment to vomit … anyway in his acceptance speech he glorified gay marriage and made it a point to say shame on people like me who are against a "civil right" as he put it. Well Mr. Penn, allow me to show you where you are wrong. A civil right is basically what you will find in the first 10 Amendments, that’s why it called the Bill of Rights, and although there have been some additions made with the changing times you will not find “marriage” or the union of a couple mentioned once in any amendment of the Constitution. So where is gay marriage or the actual ceremony of marriage a civil right??? The Liberals would have you believe that it is protected by the 14th Amendment and that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates that, so let’s look at that.
The 14th Amendment:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or the property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ”
By this, a gay person can be gay, alive, and own property. Being married is not listed there. The DOMA of 1996 is a federal law that defines marriage as traditional and goes to allow states to deny another state’s homosexual marriage. Sounds like a violation of the 14th Amendment and the 10th Amendment too. However Article 4 of the Constitution gives the States the “Credit” of “public … Records” such as records of marriage and by that same article allows Congress to “prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records, and Proceedings shall be proved and the Effect thereof.” So in closing, although Marriage itself is not protected by the Constitution by name, the DOMA is Constitutional, as is states passing laws and amending their state constitutions to ban this disgusting, un-American, and unholy union because people don‘t want it. Hence California passing a law against it and voting in favor of a state constitutional ban.