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Monday, July 07, 2008
Gregg Jackson :: Townhall.com Columnist
Same Sex "Marriage": Illegal in All Fifty States
by Gregg Jackson
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Schwarzenegger’s tyrannical actions are straight out of the Romney playbook.

It is no surprise that the vast majority of the leading conservative “pro-family” organizations, lawyers, and radio-pundits have been silent about Schwarzenegger’s illegal actions since virtually every one of them from Focus on the Family to Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh totally suppressed the truth about Mitt Romney’s virtually identical illegal actions.

Romney, not the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, was originally solely responsible for the illegal issuance of marriage licenses to same sex couples in 2004. The claim that the "activist" Goodridge Court "legalized gay marriage" is a total lie. The court didn't even pretend its declaratory opinion on the one individual case before it, could in any way influence the current marriage statute:

"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief." 

In fact, the court admitted that under the marriage statute, Chapter 207 of the Massachusetts General Laws, homosexual marriage is illegal:

"We conclude, as did the judge, that M.G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."

In California, while the court has claimed that the designation of marriage as a “union between one man and one woman” must be stricken from the statute, it is crucial to reiterate that only the sovereign people of California have the constitutional authority to amend or revoke an initiative statute such as Prop 22.

Since courts lack the authority to enforce their own opinions and cannot make law, they can only be considered “activist” when the executive branch enforces their opinion as if it were the “new law.” While a bare majority of four members of the court, no doubt issued an illegal opinion and should be impeached for doing so, Governor Schwarzenegger alone authorized the issuance of the illegally altered marriage certificates. Executive tyranny, not “judicial activism,” is what occurred in California (and Massachusetts).

The bottom line is this: Same-sex “marriage” is not legal anywhere in the United States of America from Massachusetts to California. Now if only somebody would explain this basic legal concept to our superstar “conservative” leaders, lawyers, and radio-pundits who incessantly swear that it is.

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Gregg Jackson is a radio talk show host on WRKO in Boston and author of "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue By Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z."

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The Bottom Line:

1. "Gay Marriage" is not legal anywhere in the United States. RINOs Romney and Schwarzenegger violated their sworn oaths and illegally issued marriage certificates to same sex couples without accompanying binding enabling statutes usurping the unalienable and sacred right of the people to govern themselves. They have both engaged in the worst type of Executive Tyarrany.The marriage statutes limiting marriage to one man and one woman have NOT changed in Mass or CA. Period. End of story!

2. The so called "pro family" and "conservative" leaders, lawyers, pundits, and radio talkers, many of whom covered up for Romney, are silent about Schwarzenegger’s illegal actions as well. Through their deafening silence they aided and abetted Romney’s and Schwarzenegger’s illegal institution of sodomy marriage in America. Two “Republicans” are the bi-coastal Founding Fathers of Same Sex “marriage.”
3. Money Grubbing Mercenary Pseudo Celebrity "conservatives" such as Mat Staver/Liberty Counsel, Jay Sekulow/ACLJ, Tony Perkins/FRC, Don Wildmon/AFA, Glen Lavy and David French/ADF, Tom Minnery/Focus on the Family, James Bopp, Hugh Hewitt, Bill Bennett, Ann Coulter, Rush and David Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jed Babbin/Human Events, the "New Kids" at NRO, all actively covered up Romney and Schwarzenegger’s illegal actions parroting the liberal lie that the "courts legalized same sex marriage."
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