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My Comment:
The philosophy of letting the
states decide important issues regarding civil liberties is a much bigger story
than gays wanting to get married. Gay tax paying American citizens, wanting the
same liberties granted all Americans, does not come as a surprise. African
Americans and women once demanded equal protection under the law and eventually
achieved their goal.
The big story on this issue is the
resurgence of an opinion that individual states should have the authority to
define which civil liberties are granted or denied its citizens, based on a
state-by-state interpretation of civil rights. Under the philosophy of
"States Rights" African Americans and women would probably enjoy
different civil liberties according to the state they lived in.
Under the thinking of Cruz and
McConnell, if states can individually decide whether tax paying American
citizens can vote or not, many states would deny that privilege to women and
blacks. Under a "States Rights" political organization, there would
not be a United States of America.
Under a "States Rights"
dominated government, each state would have the power to define the meaning of
all existing civil liberties, taken for granted by Americans. Each state,
determining which civil liberties are granted or denied to its people, would
create by default, 50 different countries, all acting differently from one
another. In other words, we would have a Confederate States of American on the
North American continent.
A "States Rights"
mentality is inherently dangerous to the existence of our nation. Regarding
civil liberties, Cruz and McConnell are dead wrong on letting individual states
determine whether people can marry whom they please, or allow a state to
interfere based on a religious opinion.
Allowing each state to spiral off
into its own set of laws regarding civil liberties, would in reality nullify
the "Supremacy Clause", the "Due Process Clause" and the
"Equal Protection Clause" of our Constitution. In other words, Cruz
and McConnell are advocating dissolving the United States of America. They are
not friends of America.
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