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"10 Supreme Court justices?"
"Brown vs Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia were mistakes?"
Tom DeLay Urges Americans To Defy The 'Ten' Justices Of The Supreme Court
Submitted by Mikayla Bean on Monday, 6/15/2015 5:30 pm
This past Saturday, Phyllis Schlafly hosted former House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Eagle Forum Live to discuss the alleged threat of gay marriage. Schlafly segued into the topic of gay marriage by describing an open letter to the Supreme Court, signed by conservative pastors and politicians, pledging to defy any Court decision which strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage. DeLay lamented that people dont understand the constitution. We havent taught our children now for three or four generations what the Constitution is, and the separation of powers, and what our Founding Fathers had in mind as this brilliant understanding of how you can limit government and limit the tyranny put on us through people or oligarchies. Because of this supposed constitutional ignorance, DeLay claimed, right now, the American people dont understand that the Supreme Court, when it makes a ruling, its just an opinion if no one enforces that ruling. The Supreme Court doesnt have a police force; the Supreme Court doesnt have an army; the Supreme Court doesnt have people that can enforce their ruling. Therefore, if conservatives stand up to them and invoke the Constitution, then we dont have to accept a ruling on marriage that redefines marriage. And thats basically what this ad is all about. Were sending a message to the Supreme Court that, number one, its illegal that they have this case before them; its not in their jurisdiction. Proving his Constitutional prowess, DeLay argued that its not in their authority to write law by ten unelected, unaccountable people, lawyers, and if this is a red line that were drawing. If they rule against marriage, we will all defy them. Further along in the show, a caller, responding to the overreach of the Supreme Court, noted that civil rights laws, such as Brown v. Board of Education and Virginia v. Loving [sic], were put on us by courts legislating from the bench and presidential executive orders. And back then even one-third of the black people did not want integration. And Governor George Wallace warned about the tyranny now happening under the Obama administration. Responding to this lecture, Schlafly observed, Well, lots of mistakes have been made along those lines.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I'm actually amazed he hasn't jumped into the clown car yet!
JustAnotherGen
(31,932 posts)She has caused more hatred and viciousness towards so many groups - she needs to shut up.
Yeah - Phylilis a mistake. Go fuck yourself.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)The problem is... There are too damned many people who believe this shit.
This is the core of the GOP, fellow DUers. This is what we are fighting. And these troglodytes control most of the state houses and both the US House and the US Senate.
Meanwhile, here at DU, some are fighting about Bernie versus Hillary. If you are, you chose poorly. You are missing the real, and far more dangerous target, the fucking GOP.
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