Do They Even Teach The Constitution In School Anymore?!?

J.J. Jackson* | May 28, 2005

I guess they don’t! Mayor Jason West of New Paltz, N.Y. is set to be tried for violating the State’s laws on marriage and marrying homosexual couples without a license reports FOX News.

First, I will make it perfectly clear that I do not think the State should be involved in the process of marriage to begin with since the institution is religious. I say if two gay men want to get married and officially do the bone dance with Mr. Sphincter then let them join a church that allows it and be married in that church.

However what does get my goat is how homosexuals try to imply that they have a “Constitutional right” to be married. No, I am sorry to say, you do not. Again this goes back to my belief that the state should have no say in who is and who is not “married” legally.

You have Mayor West’s attorney who should be smarter than he appears spouting this tripe:

Mayor West stood up for the constitutional rights of people being treated unfairly and unconstitutionally,” said West’s attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz. “If he is wrong about that judgment, of course he will stand trial and we’ll pay whatever penalty and he’s prepared to do so.”

Ok Mr. Rosenkranz, a shiny new nickel to you if you can show me where in the Constitution you have a “right” to be married. I’ll even give you that nickel if you can show me where in ANY of the writings of the founding fathers who signed that document they mentioned “homosexual marriage” as a right that could be losely infered to exist under Amendment IX.

Mr. Rosenkranz, I hope that since you claim to understand the Constitution oh so well that you can explain how on Earth a “right” mentioned nowhere is a “right”!

Please also take note that Amendment X clearly says that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Now, since the power to determine who is and who is not able to marry is not in the Constitution as being delegated to the federal government what does that mean?

Mr. Rosenkranz?

Any other Marxists out there want to try?

Here’s a hint: It means that the States have the RIGHT to determine things such as marriage laws even if they shouldn’t establish them in the first place. And THAT is exactly what the State of New York did in this case.

It said “no” to homosexual marriage. So please Mr. Rosenkranz and all the rest of you lefties out there please stop it with the “marriage is a right” argument. It isn’t. And the States have the authority to determine these issues through their legislative bodies … again, even if they shouldn’t be.

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