GOP Gives Itself the Right to Ignore Supreme Court Decision

RNC member Dave Agema

1.  Dave Agema, a member of the Republican National Committee and chairman of it's Political Action Committee believes he has found a way to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling if it decides in favor of same-sex marriage in the next few weeks.  He has gotten Todd Courser (R) to introduce a bill in the Michigan House that would prohibit the state from recognizing any marriage not performed by a member of the clergy.  Judges, mayors and other state officials would be prohibited from uniting two loving people in marriage, no matter if they are gay, straight--or atheist.

what eye thynk:  The Republican Party may cry all they want about Sharia law infiltrating our court system; but they don't see anything wrong with forcing a "Christian" theocracy on the citizens of Michigan if it serves their bigoted purpose.

Mr. Agena's idea is that the state of Michigan would be in compliance with the Court's ruling (after all, they are not actually prohibiting gay couples from marrying); but still prohibit same-sex marriage by making it a requirement that the union be blessed by a pastor, priest or rabbi.

Of course, this is still not a foolproof restriction since there are Protestant churches that welcome gay members and who support the marriage rights of gay couples.  That should wipe some of the smugness off Mr. Agena's visage; though I'm sure he's working on a way around that too.  A requirement that two separate churches sign off on the license perhaps?

Caught in Mr. Agena's hate-filled net is the atheist couple who obviously would not want a church wedding or the blessing of the clergy.  With the elimination of civil marriage in the state, it is apparent that Mr. Agena believes Michigan's non-religious deserve no rights at all when it comes to wanting to marry the person they love.

Where in their obedience to the Bible do they find the basis for this type of hate? 

Jeb (shhh, don't call me Bush)

2.  Jeb Bush, trying to find his way in the crowded Republican presidential hopeful field decided to air his conservative bona fides by telling the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference that the Supreme Court's imminent decision on same-sex marriage should not be seen as an end to the divisive issue.  Last Friday, in an obvious attempt to suck-up to the religious right, he told the conservative gathering that the debate should continue "irrespective of what the courts say."

In this opinion he joins Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, in fact, the entire Republican  horde.

In our three-part system of government, the Supreme Court is granted the final word on our laws...except in Republican-land where constitutionality is either painted red or it's wrong. And to a Republican, if it's wrong, they can simply ignore it. (I call this the GOP-is-King system.  It's a four-part arrangement where everyone is subordinate to them.)

This is just another example of how conservatives in this country refuse to accept any opinion but their own.  If you doubt that, you need only look at the 1960 conservative fight against integration, or today's fights against abortion and same-sex marriage rights--or the way that for six and a half years they have held the country hostage as they refused to accept that the people twice chose Barack Obama over their candidates and have continued to govern as though the Office of President of the U.S. was theirs--ignoring, belittling, condemning any idea that has emerged from our Democratic president.

How nice of Mr. Bush et al to let us know they intend to keep up the GOP's good work.