‘Today, The United States Supreme Court Has Lost Its Legitimacy’ Says Liberty Counsel
“Supreme Court Crosses the Line and Delegitimizes Its Authority By Striking Down DOMA,” is the headline today from the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, a religious legal action firm closely associated with Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Liberty Counsel, responding to today’s Supreme Court rulings, says that the Court “has lost its legitimacy as an arbiter of the Constitution and the rule of law,” and adds:
Today is the death of the Court’s legacy, because the decision in the Federal Defense of Marriage Act case defies logic and is a pure invention of a handful of Justices.
The comments, attributed to Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, are not shocking at all for the religious extremist.
Staver is the co-author and head of one of over two hundred Christian anti-gay organizations that have signed a letter threatening, essentially, anarchy, if the Supreme Court even opened the door to same-sex marriage, as The New Civil Rights Movement reported last week. The letter includes inflammatory rhetoric and threatens they will ignore any positive ruling from the nation’s highest court, because God’s law, they claim, trumps man’s law.
Staver today adds:
Marriage predates government and civil authorities. No civil authority, including the Supreme Court, has the authority to redefine marriage. Marriage was not created by religion or government and is ontologically a union of one man and one woman. For any Court or civil authority to think it has the authority to redefine marriage is the height of hubris. Deconstructing marriage will hurt children and society. While today’s decision on DOMA did not redefine marriage, it has provided the foundation on which to do so. Today’s decision is the equivalent of the 1972 contraception decision involving unmarried couples and the so-called right to privacy on which the 1973 abortion decision in Roe v. Wade was constructed. Today, the Supreme Court has damaged its image, lost legitimacy, and set in motion considerable harm to society and to the State of the Union.
Liberty Counsel today also tweeted:
Obama is pushing an LGBT affirmative action campaign
— Liberty Counsel (@libertycounsel) June 26, 2013
and
#Homosexual marriage is not a new, but a regression to the pagan-Roman culture into which Christianity was born. http://t.co/ZNVU5mOJrb
— Liberty Counsel (@libertycounsel) June 26, 2013
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