By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--February 27, 2011
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US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."Further, most Americans should draw the conclusion Barack is putting the entire USA at risk for openly defying and contradicting nature. Most pointedly, Obama has now exposed himself as a lawless rogue, in defiance of God, country and citizen, and therefore he must be immediately impeached.
After careful consideration, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination...that DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples...is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President's determination.The upshot of the announcement is that Obama has made a unilateral decision putting US law of marriage on a course to include homosexual relations.
SEC. 2. POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES. No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.The Bill then goes on to define "marriage":
SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE. In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
'It is a peculiar fact' stated Engels a few months after Marx died, 'that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes to the foreground'.' By the mid- to late-nineteenth century it was clear to advocates and opponents alike that many socialists shared a propensity to reject the institution of the family in favour of 'free love', if not in practice, at least as an ideal.Further, once the family unit has been broken down, and reformatted like so much beef into baloney, there will be no intact carrier of traditional views, outside the church. And once society chooses to accept gay marriage, the church then becomes corrupt, also spouting party doctrines from emasculated pulpits. Writes Leon Skousen, in The Naked Communist,
Strong family solidarity is part of our religious strength and part of our national strength, but it is despised by the materialist. Marx and Engels wrote in their Manifesto that they stood for the abolition of the family.' Immediately after the revolution, Lenin attempted to wipe out the family pattern of life...
The State of Nature has a Law of Nature to govern it which obliges everyone:... that being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions (Locke, 270-71).Natural Law is deemed "higher law," as described by Lord Edward Coke in Calvin's Case, being a law above human laws, allowing criticism based upon unimpeachable precepts. Coke was a colossus of the Common Law, one of the greatest jurists England ever produced. It was Coke's writings whom the great Blackstone's Commentaries were modeled upon, being the most influential legal work used by the Founders and Framers. Coke states in Calvin's Case,
For the laws: 1. That ligeance or obedience of the subject to the Sovereign is due by the law of nature: 2. That this law of nature is part of the laws of England: 3. That the law of nature was before any judicial or municipal law in the world:, 4. That the law of nature is immutable, and cannot be changedThe overall idea in Natural Law is a revealed order, or law exists, set over the universe, which can be deduced through diligent study and reflection. The greatest name in the history of Natural Law is Thomas Aquinas, but many writers have added to this rich set of ideas. The Founders of America were keen students of the Natural Law, seeing everywhere its signs and effects. In fact, the Constitution and Declaration were statements of its precepts, express in the typical language of the Enlightenment's Laws of Nature & Nature's God, which was just another formulation of the Natural Law. Coke continues on in this vein in Calvin's Case:
The law of nature is that which God at the time of creation of infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction; and this is lex æterna, the moral law, called also the law of nature. And by this law, written God in the heart of man, were the people of God a long time gone law was written by Moses, who was the first reporter or writer of The Apostle in the second chapter to the Romans... And this is within the moral law, honora patrem, which doubtless doth extend to him and be the words of the Great Divine...and Aristotle, nature's secretary...Concluding this theme, Coke writes:
This law indeed is the eternal law of the Creator, infused into the heart of the time of his creation, was two thousand years before any laws written judicial or municipal laws. And certain it is, that before judicial were made, Kings did decide causes according to natural equity...Before rejecting Lord Coke's theories as a historical legal anachronism, let's remember he wrote some of the most important decisions in Anglo-American legal history, he, along with John Selden, composed the Petition of Right which curbed kingly excesses, and greatly influenced the later British Bill of Rights, the precursor to the American Bill of Rights.
While Marx once alluded to a higher form of the family in communist society, he and Engels usually wrote about the destruction, dissolution, and abolition of the family. The relationships they envisaged for communist society would have little or no resemblance to the family as it existed in nineteenth-century Europe or indeed anywhere else. Thus it is certainly appropriate to define their position as the abolition of the family.The US is famed for its separation of powers, long-protecting the States from would-be emperors. Now Obama, in deciding to be a one-man Supreme Court has raised the specter of tyranny and put all Americans on notice he will use any power to further his wild, leftist dreams. Since most Americans self-identify as Christian, dismissing God's law as "bigoted" cannot sit well with the majority. Moreover, fears are growing God must punish his willfully disobedient followers for rank apostasy. Therefore, Obama must be impeached before total tyranny or anarchy dissolves America into murderous chaos, or historical irrelevancy.
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.