[From article]
Apparently there is nothing wrong in Judge Burgess’s mind in “refusing the rights and responsibilities afforded” to the people of Alaska to decide issues such as these for themselves. We have to wonder if Burgess and the other revisionist federal judges redefining marriage have ever read the 10th Amendment. The Constitution does not say anything about marriage (and the 14th Amendment doesn’t say anything about it either). Ergo, this is a State issue. No federal judge has the right to declare it unconstitutional.
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Essentially what Burgess fails to understand, however, is that our rights and dignity are not “given” to couples by the state. Our dignity follows from our human nature, from who we are as persons. Our fundamental rights are unalienable and can neither be given nor taken away from anyone without due process of law. Marriage follows not from the laws of men but is an institution rooted in our human nature that predates nation-states and their constitutions.
http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/judges_are_changing_the_meaning_of_marriage.html
October 16, 2014
Judges Are Changing the Meaning of Marriage
By Jonathan Abbamonte
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