Posted on 04/07/2015 8:28:42 PM PDT by massmike
Even if a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring makes same-sex marriage the law, it would leave pockets of the country where it isn't likely to be recognized any time soon: the reservations of a handful of sovereign Native American tribes, including the nation's two largest.
Since 2011, as the number of states recognizing such unions spiked to 37, at least six smaller tribes have revisited and let stand laws that define marriage as being between a man and a woman, according to an Associated Press review of tribal records. In all, tribes with a total membership approaching 1 million won't recognize marriages between two men or two women.
Several explicitly declare that same-sex marriages are prohibited. And some have even toughened their stance.
The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Navajo Nation, with about 300,000 members each, maintain decade-old laws that don't recognize same-sex marriage. Neither tribe has shown much sign of shifting.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
The TEA Party needs to become a tribe. Im a native American...
Heap big trouble for squaw Warren.
I agree, let’s start our own tribe.
Yes, like the government wouldn’t break a treaty and run over their rights.
Wow, how bigot, homophobic, nazi of them..../s
“I agree, let’s start our own tribe.”
My family has been in the country for almost half a millennium, am I qualified to be native yet?
In the process of wealth redistribution and disregard for national law, Native American tribe nations were never safe from comrade dictator obama.
At least the Indians are still sane.
Maybe we all need to declare ourselves Indians like Fauxcahontas.
Well, that is a start.
I watched a report on Londonistan, and it seems all the British Johny Jihads were former liberal artists who were into Booze, drugs and sex and felt betrayed by their own society. Some of them are suspected to even be homophobic “former” homosexuals.
That would explain a lot as to why muslims at Al Jazeera would support a queering of America.
But but but...
the homofascist revisionist historians have claimed that native american peoples were one of the examples where same sex marriage existed.
part Seminole here, and ready for the Tea Party tribe.
One of my ancestors came over, fought the American Revolution and later on in the winter of 1796/97, gave shelter to an Indian who needed to say for the winter. My great, great, great, great, grandmother was saved from a rattler bite by an Indian squaw who sucked the poison out. Does this count? B-)
Bookmark.
Until very recently, this was the official position of the entire human race. even those of us who keep on top of things seem to have lost track of just how crazy our culture has become.
Fauxcahontas and her party are deeply saddened.
Thank you for referencing that article massmike. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
Citizens probably wouldn’t be concerned about pro-gay activist justices looking for an excuse to legalize gay marriage outside the framework of the Constitution if state lawmakers hadn’t ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of state lawmakers in Congress by doing so. This is because if 17A hadn’t been ratified then there would probably be all different faces on the Supreme Court at this time, state sovereignty-respecting justices who would simply clarify that the Constitution’s silence about marriage means that it is a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue, not the business of the corrupt federal government.
Another way to look at the constitutionality of state laws prohibiting gay marriage is this. Regardless of pro-gay, PC interpretations of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protections Clause by the corrupt courts, pro-gay activist judges and justices don’t want low-information citizens to know that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay issues like gay marriage. So activist judges and justices don’t have any constitutionally enumerated gay right to throw at the states via the 14th Amendment where legal majority voters have prohibited gay marriage.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
When liberal darlings collide...
Two Brave not make-um good pow-wow in single tee-pee.
But make-um tee-pee well appointed with keen fashion sense.
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