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SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN FEDERAL PROVISION DENYING BENEFITS TO LEGALLY MARRIED SAME-SEX COUPLES
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Posted on 06/26/2013 7:12:46 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty

Edited on 06/26/2013 7:25:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: snarkytart
I agree, but not because of this ruling, but because of the shocking comments made by Kennedy in the majority opinion for the DOMA case. He basically calls those against gay marriage the spawn of Satan - really.

Go read it when you have a chance, but not on a full stomach. Actually, just read Scalia's scathing dissent, Kennedy's words are included there, and you can at least take pleasure in Scalia's words of wisdom.

241 posted on 06/26/2013 8:50:37 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: NYRepublican72

See post 234.

He doesn’t need to even try it in the South. Illinois would be sufficient.

Hey, maybe I’m wrong about it. I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t someone, say, within a week, married in say, VT, and moving to Illinois to try to over turn the law.

Let’s see if I’m right here.


242 posted on 06/26/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: Ray76

With Obamacare, you’re already mandated to pay for sodomites health care bills. That’s the whole purpose of it. Anal fissures and all.


243 posted on 06/26/2013 8:51:50 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: Ray76
A lot of the problems go away once the commie systems are destroyed.

Exactly. Such things like defining marriage were never an issue until we started handing out benefits for being married....or minority....or disabled...
244 posted on 06/26/2013 8:53:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Don’t comply.


245 posted on 06/26/2013 8:54:56 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Agreed, the transformation of the USA that the resident occupier in chief spoke of has accelerated greatly. The USA is now officially, irrevocably doomed as a nation. There is now no turning back.


246 posted on 06/26/2013 8:56:35 AM PDT by ducttape45
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Why stop at marriage? Why can’t two people, regardless of marital status, “team up” to receive surviving spouse benefits upon the death of the other? Why does there have to be presumed sexual contact?

Really, the government should NOT be in the marriage business anyway - it’s a religious based phenomenon that exists between Man, Woman, and God.


247 posted on 06/26/2013 8:57:31 AM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: cripplecreek

I should have included getting the government out of schools.

Giving government power enables that power to be seized by the unscrupulous. That power can be wielded against society. That power has been given and has been wielded by the unscrupulous to bend society in ways it did not desire.


248 posted on 06/26/2013 9:04:44 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: navymom1

He also wrote Ash Wednesday.


249 posted on 06/26/2013 9:07:27 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I weep for my children.


250 posted on 06/26/2013 9:07:39 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: meyer

What’s your solution regarding spousal visas?


251 posted on 06/26/2013 9:15:45 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: cotton1706

Can someone tell me if this is the death knell for referendum iniatives?


252 posted on 06/26/2013 9:21:07 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: safeasthebanks
Hence, it goes back to the State Court decision, which struck down the amendment. Perfectly sound decision, and why Roberts AND SCALIA ruled as they did.

Uh no. It was a federal court. The homo judge Walker was a federal judge (now retired).
253 posted on 06/26/2013 9:25:29 AM PDT by fifedom
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To: snarkytart

I know homosexual “unions” are recognized. They are identical to marriages in the eyes of the law. But “unions” were never good enough for the sodomites. They wanted “marriage”. They wanted nothing in the world but the meaning of the word marriage to include them. That’s what they were shooting for. Now two buddies, as straight as arrow, who just don’t want to get married, or get married again, can “marry” their drinking buddy and cheat on federal taxes. That’s really all this new definition goes. It allows scammers and here they come. Kennedy is an idiot. Wonder if this was even discussed during the proceedings. The people that should be really pissed are the California voters,who said no to sodomite “marriage”, then a faggot judge comes along and rules it unconstitutional and the US Supreme Court lets him get by with it. They are the ones that that should be mad. The Supreme Court said we no longer live in a country by the people for the people. Now it’s a judge who calls the shots and determines what’s right and wrong. I would suspect that the liberal judges will try the same thing in all the states that have outlawed queer “marriage”.


254 posted on 06/26/2013 9:28:13 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: The Sons of Liberty

As I read Leviticus, the next appointed day for God is July 7/8 and it is the feast of weeks or Pentecost.... that would be an interesting day to watch for news.


255 posted on 06/26/2013 9:28:48 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: JCBreckenridge

Hmmm... I didn’t realize that present health care insurance only covered heterosexuals.


256 posted on 06/26/2013 9:29:43 AM PDT by ConstantSkeptic (Be careful about preconceptions)
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To: ConstantSkeptic

It’s an amazing system. It’s called:

“pay for your own damn healthcare”.


257 posted on 06/26/2013 9:30:24 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: fifedom

This is what happens when 1/2 of the population gets a leg up on taxes or any other benefits that our GOVERNMENT stupidly passes a law. Why sould a law benefit only 1/2 of the populkation? In order to have true freedom, we must accept everybody as they are, as long as they aren’t committing any crime. No extra benefit for any portion of the population, while the others are getting the shaft. Let’s rid ourselves of all these TAX laws with preferrance of some and not for all. Let’s leave it to everybody’s conscience.


258 posted on 06/26/2013 9:31:09 AM PDT by gingerbread
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To: BIV

NY sodomite “marriage” was not voted in by the people. It was strong-armed in by monkey-face Cuomo. He signed legislation making it law after the liberal NY legislature passed it. NY voters had nothing to do with it.


259 posted on 06/26/2013 9:33:36 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.” President George Washington

Remove the pillars and roof will eventually cave in.


260 posted on 06/26/2013 9:33:39 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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