Posted on 12/20/2013 2:45:50 PM PST by LonelyCon
A county clerk's office in Utah is issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, just hours after a federal judge struck down Utah's ban on gay marriages.
Salt Lake County Deputy Clerk Dahnelle Burton-Lee says the district attorney authorized her office to begin issuing the marriage licenses Friday.
She couldn't immediately say how many licenses have been issued so far.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled that a law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples' rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
Shelby said the state failed to show that allowing same-sex marriages would affect opposite-sex marriages in any way.
The Utah attorney general's office says it plans to issue a statement on the ruling later.
The decision marks an ongoing nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage.
Ain't it amazing that those guys who passed the 14th amendment 150 years ago and all those states that ratified it were so friendly to homo marriage? < /s >
Do these courts even look at original intent anymore, or do they just make it up as they go? (Sorry, rhetorical question.)
That depends on if a state official man's up and defends it. Remember, the Prop 8 case was simply remanded for lack of standing, not on its merits. It actually still exists in California. Only, the Leftist Governor and AG refused to defend it.
No it was the “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”. Still doing the same thing, 2,000 years later. Come on in son, the water’s fine.
Merry Christmas every one
I lived in Saudi Arabia five years and worked with 30 Saudis. I asked ALL of them, over the years, about polygamy. THEY all had one wife and they ALL said: "One wife is enough." :o)
They said that ONLY the wealthiest of men could afford more than one wife. They were all adamant about that and all said the same thing--one wife is enough.
Side note: off the topic.
I remember hearing a group of our workers (almost all uneducated older guys) talking about something quite adamantly. They kept repeating the word: SAYAREET. I asked about it later.
My boss told me that the men were all having trouble with their 18-year-old sons. Their sons didn't want to work or go to school; they just wanted to drive around all day in their CARS--sayareet. :o)
I laughed and told him that OUR 18-year-olds were pretty much the same.
Highest corrupt collusion we've ever seen.
Next you’ll be hearing about gay polygamist marriages.
It’s the media.
And it won’t stop until radio, TV and newspaper offices around the country are sacked by an outraged populace.
Yes, the children who become wards of these same gender unions suffer. I am watching it happen to several sibling groups in our school right now. My kids have classes with them, so I see up close the emotional damage. I ache for those young people and the horrible situation that is being forced on them to satisfy the nurturing instinct (or worse) of the guardians that God and nature would have denied parenthood to.
It is odious, and the problem is not that the kids may be molested. In fact, that is what the gay activists claim their critics are saying in order to discredit them. The real problem is that kids have an ingrained psychological need for both a mom and a dad, and a same-gender pair can NEVER provide for that need.
The Catholic Church never had such a ban. There were black Christians before their were European ones.
The Catholic Church never had such a ban. There were black Christians before their were European ones.
I know.
Merry Christmas
Thank you, John Roberts. Your recent homosexual decisions paved the way for this. Liberal and RINO judges are having a field day.
Wow. Two states this week, New Mexico and Utah, legalize gay marriage. We are on a roll now.
Waiting for the lightening strike.
Thanks.
Freegards
Even the Mormons couldn’t stem the flow of the sodomite urge to marry and reproduce...
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Eh ???
what Mormon tried that ???
Willard, the leader of the Mormon political party introduced same-sex marriage into MASS when he was gov there...
Willard is the father of same-sex marriage...
Harry Reid the man of the year for the Mormons has pushed same-sex marriage for years..
Can’t the state just refuse to recognize the right of a single federal judge (or any federal entity for that matter) to tell a sovereign state that they have to violate their own Constitution (and a perverted - literally - reading of the Federal one)?
Before I go let me be the first to say that the number of Catholics that voted for Romney dwarf any protestant denomination in the country. Without Catholics voting for Romney he would lost by a lot more than he did. What should concern you is 96% of black PROTESTANTS that voted for your boy. They all go to church and claim to be Christian. Same thing goes for hypocritical Jews, who voted for the nothing by 75%. So try getting your protestant friends to vote for republicans or Hillary Clinton will be the next president.
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