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To: hapnHal

The SCOTUS decision to which you refer - Obergefell vs. Hodges was about a gay man and his “husband” who were “married” in Maryland, but moved to Ohio. Obergefell wanted Ohio to recognize on his “husband’s” death certificate that they were, in the eyes of the STATE, legally married

SCOTUS claimed that Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.

In sum, it said if one State does it, then all must allow it. Its obscene from several points of view - SCOTUS inventing a new “right” from nothing, Government grabbing control of marriage and handing it to same-sex couples - something always controlled by civil society, not government. The perversion of the entire concept of marriage, and its a trampling of States’ rights as well.

SCOTUS didn’t rule on churches or clergy, as you indicated. One can assume that’s coming next, but it wasn’t part of recent court cases.


14 posted on 08/16/2015 8:41:05 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Kevin D. Williamson has a great article in NR recently, all about NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT. As in, NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT forcing ministers and priests to officiate at gay weddings.

Of course, nobody was talking about gay marriage five years ago, only “civil unions.”

The other half of the two-step is HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU compare homosexuality to pedophilia? NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT LOWERING THE AGE OF CONSENT TO TWELVE! HOW DARE YOU compare gay marriage to polygamy? NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT legalizing polygamy!


17 posted on 08/16/2015 8:56:25 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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