Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:28:33 PM
‘The test for whether a right is a fundamental right is whether it is rooted in the history and tradition of the American people, and essential to an Anglo-American scheme of ordered liberty.’ –Ken Blackwell
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2010/08/05/marriage_and_the_constitution
The test regarding whether a right is a fundamental right should be rooted in the Law of Nature and Nature’s God as was the consensus of the American Founders. They called these rights unalienable, meaning they are based on man’s duty under the Law of God.
God’s moral Law bears witness to man in his conscience. Men agree with the righteousness of the Law when they condemn other men as transgressors. But when they do this they condemn themselves and are without excuse before God in that they commit the same sins.
What you call a fundamental right are the rights protected in the covenant we call the constitution. The state cannot award these rights, nor can they prohibit them. They belong to men as image bearers of their Creator.
The lawless federal judiciary has violated the Natural Law in the grosses manner possible in advocating what is unnatural in the demeaning of the covenant of marriage.
And those who agree with this lawless court have forsaken the American covenant. But ‘covenant breakers’ are who they are. [Romans 1:31 KJV]