Posted on 06/25/2013 9:54:04 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
DOMA should have been struck down, it is a stupid law anyway. No laws should be passed concerning marriage; not in a free society anyway.
Alright, well what about me? I’m gay but I like vaccuum cleaners sexually and I want to marry a llama. What about me? Where’s MY equal protection?
Interesting clue here, possibly pertaining to Prop 8: “Amy Howe:
It relies in part on federalism principles.”
Sounds to me like they’re removing the restrictions placed on states....
Agreed, it was a bad law.
Correct, I think most expected DOMA to be unconstitutional. This give me hope that the justices with leave marriages to the states.
It’s in the vacuum cleaner’s warranty. As for the llama, watch the teeth.
I've searched the Constitution diligently, and nowhere do I find judicial power to "repeal" or veto laws.
There you have it. Sodomy is a-ok...in fact, should (and must) be celebrated, so says the Almighty Federal Government.
Marriage doesn’t belong to states either.. How about we not regulate what free adult people do with each other?
Yeah, but Equal Protection will become a grand mess.
So what are you going to say when two brothers want to get married? Or a father and his adult son? Are you in favor of that being legal too?
For crying out loud.
DOMA is struck down.
Kennedy wrote the decision.
The Voting Rights Act was largely “repealed” via judicial action this week. I didn’t see anyone on this site complaining.
I’m encouraged re: Prop 8 by this...
“Amy Howe:
Bottom of 25-26: The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others.”
The court said if “deemed legal by a State”.
“So what are you going to say when two brothers want to get married? Or a father and his adult son? Are you in favor of that being legal too?”
Who cares what I am in favor of? Personally I am not in favor of it, but who am I to tell other adults what they define marriage as? I believe in freedom. Now if they try to force me to accept that as marriage, then they are then just as wrong.
In which case the radical left wins.
Marriage is what marriage is. Our laws can either conform to that reality, or we can legislate, and adjudicate, and execute, our own destruction.
What restrictions?
Or we can leave marriage to people and not laws..
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