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This is where I gag at that soupy logic and lack of
historical review that Burris conveniently forgets or does
not fit into his fabricated outrage about a municipal court
judge telling a same sex couple to find another judge to
marry them.
In Burris’s rant about the sacredness of the law and
how it must be obeyed despite one’s personal feelings, it
was that same mottled logic that produced the ill-famed U.S.
Supreme Court case known as the Dred Scott decision.
That decision issued by the racist Chief Jurist Taney
clearly and without equivocation stated that, “There are no
rights of a black man that a white man must respect.”
Did you hear that Keith Burris? No rights and this was
the law of the land and this was the law that Keith Burris,
if he was living at that time with his now-held views, would
mean that he would be a law breaker if he were to champion a
different result or application.
Morally, the Dred Scott decision was horrendous and
vile and odious but it was the law of the land and,
according to Burris, it should be obeyed by all of the
judges since, after all, it came from the U.S. Supreme Court
and, as we all know, they possess infinite wisdom in all
matters pertaining to governance and the human condition.
Dred Scott was the law of the land for a hundred
years and spawned the legal right of unlimited white
harassment and oppression of black people but it was the law
and, according to Burris, every judge should obey it and not
counter it. How dare any judge counter the Dred Scott
decision!
If Dred Scott meant keeping black people in perpetual
servitude, then so be it! The highest court in the land has
spoken and how dare anyone say otherwise or do otherwise
than to listen and obey.
That is the abysmal logic of Keith Burris. In his
column he makes no historical analysis of such decisions and
its awful impact on both black people and the scarring of
America’s psyche for hundreds of years.
No, all Keith Burris is concerned is that the law is
the law and you better follow it regardless of its impact.
That is how shallow the column was that Burris penned for
The Blade; and he wants to take some moral
high ground and rebuke Judge McConnell for making a moral
decision regarding his belief that there is no such thing as
marriage with same sex partners.
Now, if Burris were to check further into history of
this country, he would find that this country was ostensibly
founded on Christian principles and one of those principles
was following the Word of God regarding issues of morality.
Not my words. Read the history for yourself and you
will see that marriage was never designed or seen or
contemplated to be other than a man and a woman…no matter
how much Keith Burris would have it otherwise under the
guise of obeying the law of the land.
Burris also engages in some “rabbit hole” arguments
when he states that one of the same sex marriage partners
did not want to be the poster child of this issue. Duh! Ya
think so?
Being that marriage licenses are open to the public
and being that she and her partner are of the same sex, she
lost that right to be hidden or not to be discovered. What
is she so ashamed about? What she was doing in private is
now being condoned in the public and she is now reticent
about it? Give me a break! Yeah, your friends will soon
know what you did.
The other false rabbit run issued by Burris is that
somehow by Judge McConnell not acquiescing to performing a
same sex marriage that the whole system is in danger of
falling down. Not so. Judge Michelle Wagener has graciously
agreed to perform all weddings at the court in spite of
Judge McConnell seeking to be removed from the judicial
rotation that may have had his name reappear in the near
future so as he would not possibly be marrying a homosexual
couple.
That possible resolution is not good enough for Keith
Burris. He wants his pious piece of flesh and wants to wax
on about how the judge should have confronted this couple
with this news as opposed to sending his bailiff to tell
them.
News flash to Burris!: Guess what. Bailiffs many, many
times deliver news to the attorneys about what the judge may
have said about a case or a pre-trial issue or a court
ruling or a new court date. Routine…routine…routine.
But for issue hunting Keith Burris, it boiled his blood
that the judge did not grovel at their feet and profusely
apologize for his absence. Hey Keith! Get over it! They
were not harmed or damaged. They were not chaffing at the
bit for this particular judge to marry them. Any judge would
do.
And as for the judge’s comment that he would agree to
perform “traditional marriages”…guess what Keith, same sex
couples who marry are not traditional since the original
concept of marriage never had them included in its
definition.
Now, I know that such a statement is tough for Keith
Burris to swallow but he will get over it and realize that
simply because someone says white is now black and black is
now white, that does not make it right or logical or moral.
Finally, Keith Burris uses the old tried and true
chestnut of saying that in the past, courts ruled against
blacks marrying whites and visa versa and this same sex
marriage issue is of like kin.
Totally wrong. People cannot change their ethnic
background or racial history but those who raise claims to
be gay due to reasons of birth are without merit.
Not proven. Just urban legend and a voluntary
acceptance of a non-traditional lifestyle that hotly demands
equal acceptance. A marriage of a heterosexual couple and a
same sex couple are worlds apart in design and function and
purpose.
So, in closing, sorry Keith Burris, but your feigned
umbrage at Judge McConnell falls flat. It must have been a
slow news day for you to waste pen and ink on this attack.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
Tolliver@Juno.com
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