To: Sub-Driver
I disagree with Rush slightly, he seems to be saying that even if the Supreme Court rules their is no constitutional right to gay marriage, that the states will end up legalizing it anyway. I just don't see States, like my home state of West Virginia, where the polls show the opposition to gay marriage has actually increase from 68% in 2009 to 72% now, legalizing it anytime soon (soon being in my lifetime). Also many states have Constitutional Amendments, which take a super majority to repeal, so legalizing gay marriage wouldn't be as simple as passing a law.
2 posted on
03/28/2013 7:49:52 AM PDT by
apillar
To: apillar
DOMA only needs 40 stated to be overridden per its own language.
3 posted on
03/28/2013 7:51:39 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: apillar
How long before I can marry my wife’s sister and her daughter? Hey forget about North Korea, when obammma comes back from his vacation, he’ll apologize to N.K. and bow down to Dunghungloe or whatever his name is and then off to the vinyard for a well deserved break
5 posted on
03/28/2013 7:55:12 AM PDT by
shadeaud
(We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
To: apillar
Which states need super majorities to repeal their amendments? We are talking about the popular vote amendments or the the ones passed by the legislature or doesn’t that matter?
Freegards
9 posted on
03/28/2013 8:03:17 AM PDT by
Ransomed
To: apillar
I’m thinking Louisiana won’t follow the Sodom course as well.
10 posted on
03/28/2013 8:03:42 AM PDT by
Bitsy
To: apillar
The Old Confederacy (Bible Belt) will NEVER legalize queer
marriage.
29 posted on
03/28/2013 8:26:26 AM PDT by
NKP_Vet
To: apillar
I disagree with Rush too. I don’t see those numbers changing.
To: apillar
[[I just don’t see States, like my home state of West Virginia, where the polls show the opposition to gay marriage has actually increase from 68% in 2009 to 72% now, legalizing it anytime soon (soon being in my lifetime).]]
I know californication is a different state, but look at what happened there- the majority voted to ban gay marriage, but hte courts stepped in and overturned their vote-
63 posted on
03/28/2013 9:36:32 AM PDT by
CottShop
(Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
To: apillar
If the Supreme Court leaves it to the states the gay lobby will be able to bring another challenge based on equal protection. Gay couple in one state can file taxes as married but in another state they have to file as single.
92 posted on
03/28/2013 10:50:46 AM PDT by
big'ol_freeper
("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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