Rather than read articles about the Supreme Court ruling, I read the entire 76 page decision myself. I slogged through all 76 pages of the complete decision—majority and dissent, in order to get a firsthand, undistorted sense of what each side was arguing. Let me summarize what I found—the majority supporting gay marriage, and the dissent opposing it. As you read, see if you can discern the worldview clash taking place among the justices and the two conflicting visions on the court.
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The Confederate Constitution: What Your Elementary School Didn’t Teach You
At the start of 1861, several Southern states seceded to form their own union under the Constitution of the Confederate States. The Southern Constitution was just a modified version of the original U.S. Constitution, but the edits were significant. Slavery certainly was a factor in the Civil War. But it was partly the economic pressures on the South that made slavery an issue.
Read more ›Can Learning the Truth Unlearn the Lie?
It is time to think the unthinkable and to embrace the abhorrent conclusion that the Constitution has failed. The very reason for a written Constitution was and is to limit the government created by that document to the powers expressly delegated not to open the door for interpretation and precedent to expand infinitely until all limits are gone. If that wasn’t the intent, why have a Constitution at all?
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