Topic: Our last, best hope to restore the Republic: Governor Rick Perry

[oldcoastie6468]

February 28, 2014
Our last, best hope to restore the Republic: Governor Rick Perry
 
By Bryan Fischer

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Gov. Rick Perry of Texas may be our last, best hope of reclaiming America and returning it to its constitutional foundations.

Gov. Perry can do this by ignoring or better yet flatly defying federal Judge Orlando L. Garcia's blatantly unconstitutional, immoral and illegal ruling overturning the Texas marriage amendment.

Texas passed its marriage amendment in 2005 with 76% of the vote. This was after the amendment passed the Texas house by a 101-29 margin and the senate 21-8. Thus it is a piece of legislation with overwhelming support, including two-thirds of the state legislature and 3/4 of the electorate. The amendment garnered nearly universal support, passing in 253 of Texas' 254 counties.

And yet Judge Garcia, in a burst of judicial hubris and and arrogance, disenfranchised them all. While he has issued a stay pending review by the judges of the Fifth Circuit, they may well affirm Judge Garcia, so the time to act is now, before they get the chance.

The Constitution begins "We the People," not "We the Black-Robed Tyrants." It's time for Gov Perry to remind federal judges of the very first words of the document they took an oath before God to uphold.

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Gov. Perry can uphold both the constitution of the state of Texas and the Constitution of the United States by declaring that no matter what a federal judge or court decides, marriage in Texas will continue to be a man-woman institution. He can issue a directive that no marriage licenses will be issued by country clerks to same-sex couples in the state of Texas, period.

Let's be very clear: were Gov. Perry to do this, he would not be violating the Constitution, he would be upholding it. It would not be the governor but the judge who is violating the Constitution and his oath of office.

The governor would be doing his part to make this nation once again a nation of laws and not men. And other like-minded governors might just be inclined to follow his example.

Surely Big Gay would react with a frenzy of outrage and a flurry of litigation, but what could homosexual activists do if Gov. Perry, backed by the state legislature, simply refused to bow to unconstitutional diktats issued by the judiciary?

If the president were to threaten the use of force to compel submission, it would simply prove to one and all that we are no longer a self-governing people and no longer have even the semblance of a constitutional republic.

Governor Perry, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. What will you do?

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/140228

[Weisshaupt]

Sigh.

What will he do. What will he do...

Oh Wait, I know.



We made need the above to be made into a smiley..

[Libertas]

 

Good stuff Weisshaupt!  A classic!

[ToddF]

It's going to be up to someone to start this ball rolling.  Texas is as good as anyone.  Way say you, Perry?  Do you want back into the first tier, again?  Now's your chance.   Appeasing animals gets you nowhere.

[warpmine]

Just because this is a guy doesn't mean he has them, testicles that is. Sure hope he has them

[MacWell™]

I believe this administration has pushed Americans way past the tipping point. I see and hear so many people who're past the point of no return and are ready for whatever move the admin makes. If this dummy in the White House believes he will get away with declaring Martial Law against American citizens, he is in for the surprise of his life. There are many times more of us than there are of them, and most of them cannot and will not fight off a cold, let alone angry American citizens. I must believe this. I cannot see a time when our Military would back this kind of illegal order.
Imho, the 2014 elections will be the key.

[AmericanPatriot]

Perry is not a friend of Liberty.
Ask the parents of the little girls he forced those vaccinations on.

Texas is also not the bastion of Liberty that legend promotes.
It is turning blue fast.
Yes, it's a big state and there's still a lot of real Texans