Posted on 10/06/2014 10:22:33 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
The Supreme Court was asked to consider petitions for certiorari in seven separate cases challenging state laws barring legal recognition of same-sex marriage. On Monday morning, SCOTUSBlog reported, the Supreme Court denied all seven petitions.
Most commentators have assumed the Supreme Court would take one or more of these cases and (perhaps) conclusively determine whether the federal Constitution bars states from refusing to recognize same-sex marriages under state law. Yet all seven cases below had come out the same way. In all seven, lower courts struck down the challenged state laws, so there was no circuit split.
Given the lack of a split, I do not think it is at all surprising that the court denied these petitions. (Indeed, coincidentally, I was planning on writing a post raising doubts about when and whether the court would take on a same-sex marriage case.) There are several more cases pending in lower courts, including some in which there are reasons to suspect the states will prevail. If so, the court will have a split to resolve, making a grant a sure thing. If not, and same-sex marriage advocates run the table, the court can avoid resolving the issue.
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They don't have to do something that would be so politically controversial
— all they have to do is deny standing to anybody bringing the issue up and allow the inferior federal courts to continue to decree that states cannot define marriage.
Marriage is a States Rights issue. SCOTUS made the correct ruling with that in mind.
I think they already have shoved it down our throats. SCOTUS’s previous ruling is what these courts are using to overturn state law and state constitutions. If the lower court judges follow the SCOTUS precedents, they have little choice but to overturn state laws.
did anyone expect SCOTUS to do something?
Now is the time for states to start ignoring edicts from federal judges and beuaracracy.
With that in mind, why are FEDERAL judges imposing it?
>>I fear that this is only a reprieve before the U.S. Supreme Court shoves same-sex marriage down Americans’ throats.<<
I fear you are correct. Next up: polygamy, polyandry, pedophilia and maybe bestiality.
Because every single “argument” for gay “marriage” applies to these equally.
SCOTUS did not make a ruling on this. But even though this issue is indeed a state rights issue, it WAS NECESSARY for SCOTUS to hear this BECAUSE FEDERAL COURTS BROUGHT IT.
Yes but homosexual unions are being forced on states because they supposedly are compelled by federal law and the Supreme Court’s prior decision on DOMA.
SCOTUS declined to intervene where federal courts made a federal issue of it. The result of the decision to deny cert is that several states were denied the right/power to make state law forbidding recognition of homosexual marriage, because state law would run afoul of the (federal) constitutional right to homosexual marriage.
“Now is the time for states to start ignoring edicts from federal judges and beuaracracy.”
Perhaps, but it isn’t happening. Of the 5 states immediately impacted by this ruling, all 5 have indicated they will immediately comply.
Disgusting lowlife scumbags.
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