[Marxism] US president proclaims June "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"

[Shane Mage]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Adam Richmond wrote:

> It [DOMA]is "unconstituional" only when SCOTUS says so.  Until that  
> day, or until federal law changes, it is the law of the land.


Not so.  Unconstitutionality is not for the SCOTUS to decide.   
Statutes not "pursuant to the constitution" are never the law of the  
land.  They do not become unconstitutional when the SCOTUS says so-- 
they are unconstitutional *ab origio*, invalid from the start.   
Federal judges, like every citizen, have the obligation to *recognize*  
that unconstitutional statutes are invalid. If statutes were legally  
valid until "declared" unconstitutional, governmental and judicial  
actions enforcing them could never be overturned as unconstitutional  
because those actions would have been legally valid when the cases  
that resulted in their invalidation were initiated.



Shane Mage

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> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
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