SCOTUS defined two institutions it has no jurisdiction over: marriage and health care. Marriage is not an institution of government, it’s an institution of religion. With the court’s opinion on Obamacare being what it is, the State and the Federation are one in the same and “Obamacare” is now “SCOTUScare”. This could result in activist States arguing that State Supreme Courts, therefore, have just as much jurisdiction as the Federation’s Supreme Court—not true, but it could go there.
Marriage should not even be a State issue, but a personal, religious issue performed per County and recognized globally. Giving any higher government a say in core family definition paves the say for large companies to commandeer people’s private lives through government. All those people in support of same-sex marriage could lose it all in a future election because they gave up the power of personal choice in order to get what they want more quickly. · · · →
continue reading