By Steve Tanner
Bonners Ferry
Your rebuttal is based upon a false premise and draws a false conclusion. You wrongly associate race with the ‘plight’ of the LBGT+ agenda. Jefferson’s quote pointed to the source of “inalienable rights coming from our Creator.” The recognition of the Creator affirms two additional self-evident truths, that there is right and truth and we are accountable to Him for our conduct.
Civil rights are not based upon “sexual preference,” “what you feel like” or “who you think you are,” but upon being created. You may not believe in the history of Sodom+ but it was consumed for their misconduct, ending their efforts to rape the angels; a barren landscape evidences their remains. No nation or society has been built on the foundation of the LBGT+, yet history demonstrates many have ended with like agendas.
To claim an inalienable right for men to “identify” as a girl and access athletic events, setting new “records” is nothing to be proud of and wrong. For this “gendered” person to access the girl’s locker and bath rooms is wrong and those supporting such actions are at war with life and community.
This LBGTQ+ agenda is a digression from acceptance of sodomy, to same sex “marriage,” to “transgenderism,” to 100+ genders and what kind of an animal do they feel like. The “+” will continue the destruction of our families, community, nation and heritage as they proudly in-your-face push us into the bottomless dark abyss.
No inalienable right exists for such wrong actions.
In a five to four vote, 2015 SCOTUS in error ruled same sex marriage is a fundamental right, i.e. an inalienable right guaranteed by the Constitution. All four dissenting justices wrote options critical in the extreme to the majority’s opinion.
Justice Thomas, a black man who experienced prejudice, does not concur with your likening the LGB+ agenda with civil rights. “The Court’s decision today [same sex marriage] is at odds not only with the Constitution, but with the principles upon which our Nation was built … This distortion of our Constitution not only ignores the text, it inverts the relationship between the individual and the state in our Republic. I cannot agree with it.”
Justice Scalia wrote. “… But what really astounds is the hubris [pride] reflected in today’s judicial Putsch [violent attempt to overthrow a government]. The five Justices …concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003. They have discovered in the Fourteenth Amendment a “fundamental right” overlooked by every person alive at the time of ratification, and almost everyone else in the time since…. [marriage defined as a man and woman] These Justices… know that an institution as old as government itself, and accepted by every nation in history until 15 years ago, cannot possibly be supported by anything other than ignorance or bigotry. And they are willing to say that any citizen who does not agree with that, who adheres to what was, until 15 years ago, the unanimous judgment of all generations and all societies, stands against the Constitution.”
“…The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning… to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”
To support the + agenda is to support proudly the violent overthrow of the family and just government. Sanity is reasonable and sensible behavior; supporting LBGT+ pride is the opposite.