tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post5762767585527071962..comments2024-03-28T14:43:35.296-05:00Comments on Ministry and Music - Seeking the Old Paths: 2 Supreme Court decisions released todayR. L. Vaughnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992710377193518029noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post-79097910436838893682013-06-26T19:42:48.854-05:002013-06-26T19:42:48.854-05:00What some others are writing/saying:
How Should S...What some others are writing/saying:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.russellmoore.com/2013/06/26/how-should-same-sex-marriage-change-the-churchs-witness/" rel="nofollow">How Should Same-Sex Marriage Change the Church’s Witness?</a><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-doma-140330141.html" rel="nofollow">Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages</a><br /><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/scalia-high-handed-kennedy-has-declared-us-enemies-of-the-human-race-20130626" rel="nofollow">'High-Handed' Kennedy Has Declared Us 'Enemies of the Human Race'</a><br /><a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2013/06/26/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-the-supreme-court-rules-on-same-sex-marriage/" rel="nofollow">“Waiting for the Other Shoe” — The Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage</a><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/26/rand-paul-the-supreme-courts-doma-ruling-was-appropriate/" rel="nofollow">The Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling was appropriate, or Regrettable overreach</a><br /><a href="http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/06/former-congressman-bob-barr-comments-on-doma-ruling-by-supreme-court/" rel="nofollow">Former Congressman Bob Barr comments on DOMA Ruling by Supreme Court</a><br /><a href="http://www.dennyburk.com/enemies-of-the-human-race/" rel="nofollow">Enemies of the Human Race</a>R. L. Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10992710377193518029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post-63992903585764416642013-06-26T19:28:48.146-05:002013-06-26T19:28:48.146-05:00Justice quotes:
"We might have covered ourse...Justice quotes:<br /><br />"We might have covered ourselves with honor today, by promising all sides of this debate that it was theirs to settle and that we would respect their resolution. We might have let the People decide....But the Court has cheated both sides, robbing the winners of an honest victory, and the losers of the peace that comes from a fair defeat. We owed both of them better." -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting from SCOTUS majority opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act <br /><br />"I turn first to the question of standing. In my view, United States clearly is not a proper petitioner in this case. The United States does not ask us to overturn the judgment of the court below or to alter that judgment in any way. Quite to the contrary, the United States argues emphatically in favor of the correctness of that judgment. We have never before reviewed a decision at the sole behest of a party that took such a position, and to do so <br />would be to render an advisory opinion, in violation of Article III’s dictates." -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting from SCOTUS majority opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act<br /><br />Alito also pointed out the remarkable irony that the United States, who did not ask to overturn or alter the ruling of the lower court, had legal standing in the DOMA case but that the intervenors regarding Prop 8, who represent the party that lost in their lower court, did not.R. L. Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10992710377193518029noreply@blogger.com