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most Americans (57 percent) remain opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This is getting too close to popular acceptance for me. The opposition to gay marriage used to be much higher than that.

This means that acceptance of gay marriage is slowly rising in this country.
1 posted on 07/09/2009 7:44:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

To repeal DOMA would mean that the “full faith and credit clause” takes effect. A same sex marriage in one state will have to be honored in another state.


2 posted on 07/09/2009 7:52:00 PM PDT by ak267
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And all this happens while the Pervert Mafia in this state...both elected (Governor,legislature,etc) and “civilians”....fight like hell to keep the question of homosexual “marriage” off the ballot.They do this because poll after poll here show that pervert “marriage” would lose...and lose convincingly.


3 posted on 07/09/2009 7:53:26 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry folks,I’m from Ma. and I admit I come from a state of RETARDS!


5 posted on 07/09/2009 8:00:10 PM PDT by taxtruth
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Coakley... Coakley... why does that name sound familiar?


6 posted on 07/09/2009 8:07:07 PM PDT by rahbert ("...but Rush....but Rush...")
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If this reaches the USSC, marriage as we now know it is over.

There is no intellectual or legal basis to deny polygamy or gay marriage.

ONLY a constitutional amendment can stop this train...and I don't see that happening either.

The founders just didn't see this one coming.

7 posted on 07/09/2009 8:20:36 PM PDT by Mariner
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If the challenge is successful, and in light of States Rights, it probably will be, so be it.

Then the whole liberal Federal Gov’t which dictates ownership/rule of everything, will fall. If they can successfully argue that their law supersedes Fed Law, then we will eventually win as state after state declares their laws superior to the overarching Fed behemoth...

At least in my dreams...


8 posted on 07/09/2009 8:25:45 PM PDT by RedWing9 (No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah, yes! Massachusetts, the cradle of states’ rights.


9 posted on 07/09/2009 8:29:41 PM PDT by YHAOS
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This means that acceptance of gay marriage is slowly rising in this country.

Lots of things go into such a shift - first is the mainstream media who are constantly doing all they can to drum up support for homosexual marriage (I no longer use the term "gay", as there is nothing gay about homosexuality - just a giant lie). Second is the rampant and open support of homosexuality by the largest teacher's union in the country - the NEA, who have now officially thrown their hat in the ring in support of homosexual marriage. And finally, a lot of tainted polling that is used to supposedly prove that Americans are "coming around" to accepting homosexual marriage.

Mass. wants to pull the "state sovereignty" component of the Constitution - well, the idiots forget that the same concept should then protect any state that chooses NOT to to recognize the abhorrent practice of granting homosexual marriages.

I pray that if this case hits the SCOTUS, it does so before 0bama has the opportunity to restack the deck in his favor.

10 posted on 07/09/2009 8:31:50 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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If it gets to Supreme Court, it only depends on what Kennedy says...he will be the lone decider as he is on many cases.


11 posted on 07/09/2009 8:43:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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When people are starving and can’t find a job, thinks like gay marriage go down the list of imporant issues. I know that is horrible, but just a fact. (Basically my point is Obama has made the economy so horrible that the American people are only concentrating on that).


12 posted on 07/09/2009 8:45:28 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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"Congress's decision (in 1996) to enact a federal definition of marriage rejected the long-standing practice of deferring to each state’s definition of marriage and contravened the constitutional designation of exclusive authority to the states," states the lawsuit.

How? Did not Massachusetts legalize same-sex marriage? DOMA or no DOMA?

16 posted on 07/10/2009 11:50:34 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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