Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello America. It's me, Eric Erickson here. I hope you're having a great day. The phone number is 877-97-9-7-3-7-4-25, should you wish to be a part of this

here program. Glad to have you with me. My goodness gracious, we got a lot to talk about here.

First and foremost, I want to talk to you, well, it shouldn't be a sensitive issue, but apparently for some people,

it's a sensitive issue. We need to talk about what's going on with the Senate's marriage legislation.

The United States Senate is considering legislation that would make gay marriage

the law of the land. The legislation originates because of the Clarence Thomas concurrence in the Dobbs decision that there's no such thing as substantive due process

and the Supreme Court needs to review substantive due process. Now, substantive due process is a court-drawn

doctrine that reads particular rights into sections of the Constitution, particularly the 14th Amendment,

that are not necessarily there, nor did the authors of the 14th Amendment intend.

And among those are the, well, abortion right, interracial marriage.

O'Bergelfeld was a substantive due process decision, that's gay marriage.

Now, Thomas is not suggesting that we get rid of, for example, interracial marriage.

He himself is in an interracial marriage.

He just says, you gotta find this at other areas of the Constitution,

not the substantive due process clause. Well, it caused a great freak out from people who aren't

very nuanced and want their hair lit on fire over everything. And the result is now the Congress

ratifying both interracial and gay marriage is the law of the land.

The Senate currently has the legislation, and there is a problem with the legislation.

And I think objectively so there's a problem with the legislation,

and that is that it does not allow

Religious institutions levels of protection that religious institutions should have

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