In reply to Daniel Gorman.

If the Supreme Court establishes a Constitutional right to gay marriage then it IS an invented right. Just as Christians are not free to use the Bible to make it say whatever we want; Americans are not free to make the Constitution say things it does not say. There is nothing in the Constitution with respect to marriage. Therefore, the Constitution has no say in the issue at all. For the Supreme Court to say otherwise would be an example of judicial overreach. Kind of like the Pharisees.

Everything we need to know about the Constitution is encompassed in the first ten amendments. The first nine discuss SPECIFIC things which the federal govt. is allowed to do or not allowed to do. The tenth amendment states that anything else not mentioned in the above nine are to be left to the states to decide for themselves.

Should the federal govt feel the need to define a certain issue (and i would argue that gay marriage should be one of these because fifty states with fifty different marriage laws is ridiculous) then the federal government has the right to request that this authority be given to it. This request is the amendment process. Congress writes out the request, the President affixes his signature, and then the states decide whether or not to cede their authority to the federal authority. This is the ratification process. Should two thirds of the states decide to give up this authority, then the amendment is ratified and the federal govt can now define and enforce the issue, based on the word for word understanding of the amendment.

Over the course of the history of our country this has happened seventeen other times. This is not complicated. This is rather easy to understand. I'm not a lawyer, in fact I'm a factory worker who paid attention in school and happens to crack open a book once in a while. This is how our country is supposed to work. The problem is that we don't follow our own laws, nor do we enforce them. The Supreme Court invented the right to privacy, they invented the right to have an abortion. They screwed around with the commerce clause to force me to buy health insurance. They do this by taking an amendment dealing with other issues and abrogating it to something else to define it under their own authority. They are Pharisees.

But they aren't the only ones doing it. Congress has unconstitutionally ceded its authority to the Executive branch, which is what has created all of the stupid alphabet soup organizations. The Executive branch now takes us to war without a formal declaration of war from Congress, which is why we now fight "police actions". The rights of the states have been mashed into the dirt by the Federal authority.

Your argument seems to be based on the idea that Christians should respect the authority in power. I agree. My argument is that the Federal govt is NOT our authority, nor is it our sovereign. The Constitution is our authority and sovereign. Our response to a federal body that won't obey the authority of our Constitution is to remove that federal body and replace it with one that will, by force if necessary. Don't believe me, look it up. Its all over the Federalist Papers. Also, it should be noted that Christians are to obey their sovereign, whomever he may be, so long as that sovereign doesn't command us to disobey God; which is what the Supreme Court might be commanding very shortly.

My view is pretty simple. If gays want the right to marry, fine. Have at it. Put it in the Constitution first, and understand that YOUR right to marry does NOT take precedent over MY right to define it as sinful and wrong. While there is no right to gay marriage in the Constitution, there is the right of association; which means if we don't like it, the Govt. has no right to force us to comply with it.