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Rep. Steve King: Let’s Avoid Gay Marriage By Getting Rid Of Civil Marriages

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on June 28, 2015 · Flag

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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was a vision of Supreme Court sour grapes as he blasted the “malignant tumor” that is ObamaCare, accused the court of redefining “all of human experience” with its same sex marriage ruling and suggested that states outlaw civil marriages in order to get around it. And in the meanwhile, he won’t abide by it, and urged others not to as well.

First, on the SCOTUS ruling in favor of ObamaCare, King sounded like he wants to keep on keeping on trying to get rid of it altogether.

KING: I’m for the full 100% repeal of ObamaCare. I’m for ripping it out by the roots. I believe that it is a malignant tumor that’s metastasizing and feeding on God-given American liberty.

But King reserved the worst of his petulance for gay marriage.

KING: I’m not gonna abide by an edict that comes down from five judges, two of whom have conducted same sex marriages in their private lives, in their spare time. They should have recused themselves. When you think of what the Supreme Court has done to try to reorder domestic life in America, I would say ‘Dred Scott.’ They made a mess out of slavery.  They ripped prayer out of the public schools in 1963. We abided by that decision and our moral structure in this country devolved. They promoted, also, abortion on demand in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade and nearly 60 million Americans have been aborted because of that.

King went on to talk about how the court had redefined “all of human experience, the thousands of years of marriage, marriage ordained by God and ratified by the civil governments.”

King also put forth his workaround, knowing that clergy will not be required to perform same sex marriages. “I say to the states, take a look at why we need civil marriage whatsoever,” King said. What tool is it for us, to order our society, if the Supreme Court says you shall do it our way?”

King urged Americans to join with him in trying to subvert the law of our land. “I think it’s time for the American people to reject the Supreme Court and say to them, as Andrew Jackson said, if that’s your order, then you enforce it,” King groused.

This from the guy who obsesses about immigrants not being law abiding.

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Peter King commented 2015-07-01 11:19:36 -0400 · Flag
This simple minded idiot does know that there are more and more people in the US who are not religious and who also want to get married? And they do not want to be forced to have a religious ceremony they do not believe in just because this moron and his moron buddies cannot accept that their side lost. And not only did they loose, they lost because they did not have a valid point to make as to why gays should be discriminated against. And last time I checked, there were priests who marry gays too, so doing away with civil marriage would not prevent gay marriage.
Joseph West commented 2015-06-29 14:45:39 -0400 · Flag
@ Steve: Mr King (like a lot of right-wingers) missed the point of what the Dred Scott case was about. The CONSERVATIVE view (ie, the majority court view in 1857) held that slaves were NOT people and were therefore not entitled to rights. King and other right-wingers can point to the Scott case all they want, but if they were living in 1857, they’d be rejoicing at the court’s decision.

It’s also worth pointing out that Republicans of the 1850s could be racist pigs even as they didn’t accept slavery. Even Lincoln supported the idea of taking the slaves and resettling them all in Africa and his grand Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free any slaves in the Union states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware (Delaware wouldn’t officially ratify the 13th Amendment until 1901 and Kentucky wouldn’t do so until 1976—even though the Amendment was the law of the land) nor did it free any slaves in territory under the direct control of the Union Army (Union commanders and military governors decided whether or not to free slaves in their jurisdictions). And during Sherman’s “glorious” march to the sea, he offered NO protection to any slaves he freed—there are accounts where ex-slaves following Sherman’s army drowned while crossing rivers because Sherman ordered his men to ignore them (the Blacks were damned either way—if they followed Sherman, they were ignored but if they attempted to return to their old plantation homes, they could run afoul of Confederate troops who might shoot them as escaped slaves).
Thx4 Fish commented 2015-06-29 14:27:11 -0400 · Flag
I know that the right wing was trying to ‘defend’ marriage by excluding gay unions. But now King would like to exclude even more people from marriage? Its a sort of “we must destroy marriage in order to save it,” kind of logic.
Joseph West commented 2015-06-29 14:17:32 -0400 · Flag
I’m sure Mr King will enjoy having to pay taxes separately from his wife since his idea of getting rid of civil marriages effectively means the tax collectors (Feds AND state-level) can’t let “religiously married” couples pay joint taxes. That’s a DIRECT violation of the First Amendment’s “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” clause. By only allowing marriage to be a religious matter, that’s effectively “respect an establishment of religion.”

I guess that Teabagger-led reading of the Constitution stunt a few years back was all for show rather than serving any legitimate purpose (just as the majority of people knew it to be).
Ray Michaels commented 2015-06-29 06:13:14 -0400 · Flag
Too bad the gays are not COPRORATIONS then Republicans would be delighted with ruling!
Steve St John commented 2015-06-28 22:36:48 -0400 · Flag
King: “They (the Supreme Court) made a mess out of slavery.” So slavery was fine until the Court made a decision?
doors17 commented 2015-06-28 22:35:37 -0400 · Flag
This would really F up the Wedding Cake & tuxedo rental industries…and jewelers.

I just love a poor loser. I am so enjoying this temper tantrum by the right. Just stick a pacifier in King’s mouth and send him to bed.
Levi Ruffin commented 2015-06-28 21:23:24 -0400 · Flag
hey, nose meet face, with a huge helping of bite … in a minute,
truman commented 2015-06-28 19:10:06 -0400 · Flag
If mAnn Coulter and Ms. Lindsey Graham hooked up, would that be a same-sex marriage? Even in Texas? And if so, which sex are they?

Marriage is over-rated. Just ask mom-to-be Bristol Palin.
Marijana Kuchinich commented 2015-06-28 17:37:29 -0400 · Flag
Wow. in just one big swipe make half of American population single again and millions of children born out of wedlock.
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Good luck with that!








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