Last month, the U.S. Senate barely passed an amendment to protect our Second Amendment rights from an anti-gun-rights United Nations treaty.
Before taking office, every Senator took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
Every Senator who voted AGAINST this amendment is a hypocrite and a traitor.
Hypocrite: A person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs.
Traitor: A person who betrays a trust or is false to an obligation or duty.
If you don’t like something that’s in the Constitution, we have a legal means for amending it. But so long as it says we have a right to bear arms, then Senators who take an oath to protect that right have no business voting to give it away.
Even if you hate guns, you should be concerned that 46 U.S. Senators were so ready and willing to give away one of our constitutional rights, because one right is as easy to snatch as another.
Surely there are some rights you DO care about. If they take guns away, what will be next? Freedom of the press? Freedom to peaceably assemble? Freedom of speech? Freedom to worship or not, as you choose? Freedom to own property? Freedom to travel where we want?
After Jim Carrey tweeted some rudeness to gun rights advocates (the usual, “you don’t care about the children!” b.s.), Adam Baldwin tweeted this back:
Adam Baldwin @adamsbaldwin – #AnswerTheQuestionJim: @JimCarrey, what is your interpretation of Federalist #46 & SCOTUS’ D.C. v. Heller & McDonald v. Chicago decisions?
Being too iggerant to recognize any of the above, I googled. In case any of y’all are equally clueless (my brother can ignore this blog), here’s the short version.
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
The Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and within federal enclaves. The decision did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment extends beyond federal enclaves to the states.
McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
The Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, regardless of what any local governments may decide.
Federalist No. 46
“The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared”, an essay by James Madison (writing as Publius) published in 1788. It examines the relative strength of the state and federal governments under the proposed United States Constitution. Among other things, he wrote that a national military force need not be feared when a very much larger number of private citizens are armed and ready to fight for their liberty.
Tweet – Obama Care will cost $2.6 Trillion but will reduce the number of uninsured from 36 to 30 million. That’s $433,333 per policy.
The Constitution
Tweet – I’d like to think that the judge who spoiled @MikeBloomberg’s fun did so on principle. But more likely, he was acting out of Sprite.
Tolerance
Tweet – People flipping out that the Pope supports traditional families…you are actually upset that the Pope is, in fact, Catholic. Tweet – Libs: “The Pope is letting his Catholicism get in the way of progress! How dare he?! PROG RAGE!” Tweet – Dear MSM: We Catholics cannot change the dogma we have received from Christ and the Apostles to suit your personal sin preferences.
Getting the planks out of their own eyes
Tweet – Has Obama congratulated the new Pope yet with a picture of himself? Tweet – Someone made a joke about the Pope? Let’s burn down an embassy! <- Things that never happen.
Consistent moral values
Biden: Garden Variety Slap [:33]
Tweet – “Garden variety” slapping?!? That is a thing? If that doesn’t make abuse of women sound benign, I don’t know what does. Tweet – It wasn’t a slap-slap, just a #gardenvariety slap. Tweet – You’d think Biden’s casual familiarity with “garden variety” domestic abuse would concern people. Tweet – If Dick Cheney had ever uttered the phrase “garden variety slap across the face,” it would still be on the front page of the New York Times today.
Democrat Ed Rendell: “Good Thing About Newtown is That it Was So Horrific”
Note that MSNBC host Alex Wagner says here that there should be “sensible gun laws.”
What does she mean by “sensible”?
Here are her own words from November of 2011 when she appeared on Real Time.
BILL MAHER: “What would you change in the Constitution?”
ALEX WAGNER: “The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.”
Keep in mind that these are the same people who found the “right” to murder unborn Americans tucked somewhere between the lines of the Constitution and insist with spittle flying that Pro-Lifers are EEEEEEEEEEEVIL, because this alleged “right” is “in the Constitution!”
Keep in mind that these are the same people who think Al Gore should’ve been President, even though the Supreme Court said Bush won, and who have no problem with Gore getting filthy rich pushing his version of “science” that says fossil fuels are EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL, then selling his t.v. station for a potload of the same oil- and blood-soaked dollars that supposedly made Bush the devil incarnate.
During an interview on gun control, arrogant anti-gun Brit Piers Morgan sneered at our Constitution, calling it “Your Little Book”, then said anyone who believes in the rationale behind the Second Amendment is “absurd.”
Tweeters replied:
#YourLittleBook was the byproduct of kicking #YourLittleButts in 1776.
#YourLittleBook is the constitution of America something that you don’t understand.
#YourLittleBook gives you the right to have your own talk show. Go back to Britain.
#YourLittleBook was written aftr last time an arrogant Englishman tried taking r guns &liberty
I suspect Piers is no fan of that other “little book” either, the Declaration of Independence.
A revolution was fought so #YourLittleBook could exist. People gave everything for it. Shame on you for ridiculing it, @piersmorgan.
It was #YourLittleBook that kept you from being deported. You should appreciate it more.
#YourLittleBook is the reason why so many have fought and died for this country. A little more #respect for the #Constitution!
If the US Constitution is a #yourlittlebook, the Magna Carta is TP
I think @piersmorgan should go back to “his little island.”
Apparently we can add history books to the list of #YourLittleBook that @piersmorgan hasn’t read if he thinks govts. never turn tyrannical.
@piersmorgan has forgotten that #YourLittleMagnaCarta was the beginning of allowing U to mouth off abt anything
Funny that #libtards like @PiersMorgan hate the #2ndAmendment, yet embrace #freespeech when confronted. #YourLittleBook
I’d like to smack @piersmorgan upside the head with #YourLittleBook. Wait, would that make it an assault book?
The #littlemind of @piersmorgan cannot grasp the ideas in #YourLittleBook
@piersmorgan is an insufferable narcissist cad and bore. No wonder Obama likes him. They both hate #OurLittleBook
I’m still trying to find in #YourLittleBook the Constitution where the president has the authority to issue an executive order.
#YourLittleBook kept his grandparents from speaking German. How quickly he’s forgotten.
Piers Morgan’s little book is red has a picture of a guy who killed millions of unarmed civilians
The Communist Manifesto = Mao’s Little Book
#YourLittleBook is the foundation of this government. You don’t get to pick the parts you like and pretend the other parts don’t exist.
That little book protects your right to be an ass on television.
Someone should go on a UK show and talk about “your little Queen”
#YourLIttleBook is why the United States had the Power to save Europe…..twice.
@piersmorgan What is so difficult for u to understand when it comes to the difference between a “need” and a “right”?
#YourLittleBook, Piers Morgan, inspired my parents to escape from Soviet communism in Lithuania to freedom here in America 27 years ago.
My father fought on Iwo Jima for #YourLittleBook.
#YourLittleBook is something I’m willing to die for…
#YourLittleBook formed the foundation of the freeest, most humane, & wealthiest society on planet Earth.
Thousands have died for #YourLittleBook.
It’s a book I love.
And it is the heart and soul of this great nation.
#YourLittleBook Is the highest law in the land.
#YourLittleBook is the greatest document that is not divinely inspired.
#YourLittleBook abolished slavery.
#YourLittleBook gave women the right to vote.
#YourLittleBook is what inspires countries across the world 2 be free w/in their own borders.
#YourLittleBook is not what we were, but who we ARE and who we will always be.
#YourLittleBook Enabled this country to create the greatest expansion of human rights, freedom and prosperity in all of human history.
#YourLittleBook is the last line of defense between the U.S. being a free & prosperous nation & falling under the hand of tyranny again.
#YourLittleBook … is the reason this immigrant loves the United States and wouldn’t live anywhere else but here.
#YourLittleBook is the blue print that helped build 1 of the most successful countries in the west that was finally able 2 be free.
#YourLittleBook is what keeps us from being oppressed by smug, self-righteous little fascists like @piersmorgan”
Many of my relatives died in the holocaust because they DIDN’T have weapons. #YourLittleBook
I used to be a little sympathetic to Piers until #yourlittlebook .
The #YourLittleBook mentality sums up the problem with liberals.
#YourLittleBook is the backbone of the country you live in, Piers, try to remember that.
The 1st Amendment is what allows you to spew your crap about the 2d.
#YourLittleBook In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury #tcot
#YourLittleBook Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States
#YourLittleBook protects your right to be unfettered by illegal searches. The TSA should read it.
#YourLittleBook The right of the people to be secure … against unreasonable searches and seizures
Piers Morgan looked at @benshapiro’s copy of the US Constitution like it was a Two Girls, One Cup video.
Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to defy the federal government to remain true to their religious beliefs, at enormous risk and financial cost.
Hobby Lobby is wholly owned and controlled by the Green family, who are evangelical Christians. The Greens are committed to running their business in accordance with their Christian faith, believing that God wants them to conduct their professional business in accordance with the family’s understanding of the Bible. Hobby Lobby’s mission statement includes, “Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company … consistent with Biblical principles.”
The HHS Mandate goes into effect for Hobby Lobby on Jan. 1, 2013. The Greens correctly understand that some of the drugs the HHS Mandate requires them to cover at no cost in their healthcare plans cause abortions.
Today Hobby Lobby announced that they will not comply with this mandate to become complicit in abortion, which the Greens believe ends an innocent human life. Given Hobby Lobby’s size (it has 572 stores employing more than 13,000 people), by violating the HHS Mandate, it will be subject to over $1.3 million in fines per day. That means over $40 million in fines in January alone. If their case takes another ten months to get before the Supreme Court—which would be the earliest it could get there under the normal order of business—the company would incur almost a half-billion dollars in fines. And then of course the Supreme Court would have to write an opinion in what would likely be a split decision with dissenters, which could easily take four or six months and include hundreds of millions of dollars in additional penalties.
This is civil disobedience, consistent with America’s highest traditions when moral issues are at stake. The Greens are a law-abiding family. They have no desire to defy their own government. But as the Founders launched the American Revolution because they believed the British government was violating their rights, the Greens believe that President Barack Obama and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are commanding the Greens to sin against God, and that no government has the lawful authority to do so.
The Christian tradition of defying government commands to do something wrong goes back to the very birth of Christianity. When the apostles were ordered not to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with anyone, the Book of Acts records: “Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.’”
Eleven of the twelve apostles—including Peter—would lose their lives for the sake of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ; only the apostle John died of old age. They were determined to obey God’s will at all costs.
This issue of civil disobedience is never to be undertaken lightly. The Bible teaches Christians to submit to all legitimate governmental authority (e.g., Romans 13:1), and so a person can only disobey the government when there is no other way to obey God.
But here in America, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, and in its First Amendment it protects against a government establishment of an official religion and separately protects the free exercise of religion. On top of that, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) to specifically add an additional layer of protection against government actions that violate a person’s religious beliefs.
The HHS Mandate is a gross violation of the religious beliefs of the Green family. The issue before the courts here is whether the Greens religious-liberty rights include running their secular, for-profit business consistent with their religious beliefs. In other words, is religious liberty just what you do in church on a Sunday morning, or does it include what you do during the week at your job?
The Greens are now putting their fortunes on the line to do what they believe is right. The courts should side with them, affirming a broad scope of religious liberty under the Constitution and RFRA. And the Supreme Court should resolve this matter with dispatch in their favor.
Millions of Christians across the country feel exactly the same way as the Greens. The Obama administration has issued a statist command that is a declaration of war on people of faith who object to abortion, and civil disobedience could break out all over the country unless the courts set this matter right—and quickly.
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