So if Washington State someday bans straight marriage and allows only gay marriage, that will be constitutional?
“So if Washington State someday bans straight marriage and allows only gay marriage, that will be constitutional?”
Seems to me that’s a possibility, seeing as how ‘gay marriage’ wasn’t even an issue 30 years ago. It was always a danger with the state involved, at least in the modern era. The state determines the definition it uses to recognize the institution by whatever judges, pols, or the majority think it is at any one time. That’s it, that’s all it will ever be.
Of course there are many religions that don’t think anyone is more or less married because they have little pieces of paper from the state that says they are.
Freegards
Leftists and many Libertarians fail to acknowledge that the Constitution is not the Supreme law of the land but rather it comes under God's law. Our inalienable rights are not granted by the Constitution but rather some of the many are recognized as rights that government is chartered to protect. The Constitution LIMITS government NOT the people.
Homosexual marriage is no more Constitutional than murder is AND heterosexual marriage can no more be banned than murder can be legalized.
Yes, duh.
Yes, duh. That is, so long as a “legitimate state interest” can be found in special gay couple status, which shouldn’t be hard because it’s a really low bar.
This is where I am coming from. I was born in 1956. I like to think I knew a better age in this country -and I did. And I absolutely DO Care.
After Bambi's election, I saw what all that caring did for me, for this country. nothing. The government will do as it will, no matter how I feel. No matter how At least 50% of us feel.
If I fight at all anymore, and that is yet do be decided, I'm going to choose the big one, the big battle. Whatever that turns out to be.
If this government, in all its friggin hubris, wants homos to marry - so be it! I know what I believe, I know what is right, I know that the government has no business messing with the Holy Sacrament of marriage. But they ARE going to do it. Let them and their supporters burn forever with that choice.
I have washed my hands of all the social fighting. Which does not mean, by any interpretation, that I have washed my hands of the fight.
This fight belongs to the CHURCH. When pastors and priests start fighting it, I'll be happy to join in. Until then, and I mean the majority of Churches, unafraid of losing their precious tax breaks, until then, me and my house will follow The Lord and the rest can go you know where.