Posted on 06/26/2015 10:07:12 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Justice Anthony Kennedy, as expected, was the deciding vote and wrote the majority opinion. No state now has the right to define what marriage is.
Just coming in, but we know it’s a 5-4 ruling, and it’s not limited in scope. Gay marriage is now the law in all 50 states - not because state legislators or voters approved it; in fact, many did just the opposite - but because the Supreme Court has invented a new right every bit as blatantly as it did in Roe v. Wade.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, as expected, was the deciding vote and wrote the majority opinion. No state now has the right to define what marriage is.
Here is a passage from the dissent, written by Chief Justice Roberts:
Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.
They are forcing the states to issue licenses and I suppose Justices of the Peace (civil employees) to perform marriages. This does not (yet) mean that ministers have to perform any ceremony.
The dissolution of homosexual relationships has been epic for a long time.
Majority rule is no longer the “Law of the Land”.
However; when it comes to keeping and bearing arms, which is clearly enumerated in the constitution as an actual right that we all have as Americans, the states - we are told - are able to make their own laws limiting that right.
We have gone over the precipice.
BI is next. Then multiple. Then chimpanzees.
No, I’m not kidding.
Yep! That’s exactly my point.
Well, better have something g to hope for, I guess...
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