Conservatives Vow To Defy Court
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Conservatives say they’ll keep fighting against gay marriage and will defy the court.
According to Talking Points Memo, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee openly defied the court ruling, which he deemed, “unconstitutional.”
Huckabee also said:
The Supreme Court has spoken with a very divided voice on something only the Supreme Being can do-redefine marriage. I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch. We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.
RawStory.com reports that Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas told Sean Hannity’s radio show:
On marriage, I’ve introduced a constitutional amendment that would protect the authority of state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. We should pass that amendment. I’ve also introduced legislation stripping the federal courts of jurisdiction over legal assaults on marriage.
However, the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution grants federal authority over the states.Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, shared a posting by his wife Kayla on Facebook by The Foundation for Moral Law that states:
Not only does the U.S. Supreme Court have no legal authority to redefine marriage, but also at least 2 members of the Court’s majority opinion were under a legal duty to recuse and refrain from voting. Their failure to recuse calls into question the validity of this decision.
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