Posted on 12/20/2013 4:51:55 PM PST by Innovative
Just hours earlier, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53-page ruling saying Utah's 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.
"In the absence of such evidence, the State's unsupported fears and speculations are insufficient to justify the State's refusal to dignify the family relationships of its gay and lesbian citizens," Shelby wrote.
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Thanks to social media, constant gay-gay tv, anti-school bullying programs, and diversity training, people are brainwashed to bend over to the homo-agenda.
Gotta hand to the homos. They are willing to work 24-7, 365 days, to achieve their agenda. While, dream of another Reagan to win 49 states.
I have always wondered why “gays” were so interested in being able to have these pretend marriages. It surely can’t be because they observe how well marriage works for normal people!
They say that they want the supposed monetary advantages. Actually, married couples pay more in income taxes than if they were single: this is the so-called “marriage penalty.”
Then there is social security, The problem is that social security, formerly designed as a retirement insurance plan, has been changed into a partial welfare scheme. The gays want to suck out benefits from Social Security, more than they would get as individuals.
But mainly, they want approval. They (and we) should ask why? Why do they demand our approval? I can’t demand approval from society for things I want to do. What is so special about gays’ (fake) marriage that it so desperately craves approval?
Think about it.
It is going to be very hard for any judge not to strike down these laws with the precedents the Supreme Court established in June. It was only by the thinnest pretense that those decisions didn’t nationalize gay marriage, and they left lower court judges few options — which we saw in New Jersey and now in Utah. My guess is the Supremes wanted to give a few more liberal states the chance to adopt gay marriage by legislative action or ballot question so as to make the judicial effort appear less of a revolution and more of a suppression of some holdouts.
The people need to take these decisions out of the hands of imperial courts
Ignore the judge.
let’s see him enforce his ruling.
Polygamy is next and Utah may lead the pack since that was a barrier to their statehood.
Thank you. I’ve been saying it for years - they’re willing to do what it takes to win the argument, by whatever means work in each case. They fight tooth and claw in legislatures, courts and on the campaign trail to get what they want.
We, on the other hand, sit in our little closed loop, pretend that the entire country is somehow secretly on our side and invent “un-skewed” polls to make us feel better about losing.
No wonder we’re in the situation we’re in now.
Once more the will of the people is thwarted by the whim of a partisan judge
if gay marriage becomes legal in all 5o states, the next fight would be the battle for religious liberty. we will be made to care. forced labor of wedding cakes is just the beginning.
I disagree— this Judge has violated the Constitution.Marriage is defined by the States. DOMA has NOT been overturned. The Judges in every State are still bound by solemn Oath to support the Constitution and Laws. when any judge makes an opinion contrary to the Constitution that opinion is VOID and no-one bound to obey it.Marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman in the Holy estate of matrimony. “Marriage” was defined in the Law of Moses in the Book of Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 and chapter 2 verse 24 Hundreds of years later that Rabbi from Nazareth was approached by the Pharisees as He taught at the Temple and asked about divorce. As a man cannot be divorced unless there is a marriage.Jesus of Nazareth reminded these Torah Lawyers what was written and specifically cited what we know as Genesis 1:27,and 2:24 as the Law governing such. (Mark 10:2-12;and Matthew 19:3-12) After Jesus was tried by the High Priest and sent before Pilot and hung on that Roman Cross with common criminals,buried in a borrowed tomb-raised by God the third day. After a Jew, trained a Pharisee converted to follow Jesus Christ as he was on the road to persecute the Christians Taught by Peter and the other apostles— to become the Apostle Paul Paul in his letters
affirmed Christ— and Moses—and upheld the Law of Moses concerning “marriage.” Under American Law a man named James Wilson eyewitness to many of our fundamental laws,likewise defined “marriage” as a reflection of the Biblical model.— Lectures on American Law. College of Philadelphia. The US supreme Court in early decisions.most clearly in Murphy v.Ramsey and others,1885 spoke of “marriage” as consisting of and springing from that union for life of a man and a woman in the Holy estate of Matrimony.” In 2005 the American College of Pediatricians sent Congress a letter in Defense of Marriage.Saying recognizing other relationships as ‘marriage” will ultimately harm children.” The best of modern science documents this as true. If a godless Judge does NOT honor the Bible—or the Sacred Writings.Then he cannot honor American Law. And is divorced from the foundation- Rule of Law That No law is valid if contrary to the Laws dictated by God,Himself. The Laws of Nature ,Dictated by God,Himself—and the Divine/Revealed law reflected in the Holy Writ:/Scriptures. As I have attempted show The Scriptures are consistent. Marriage is between a man and a woman. —and under American Law when we were One Nation under God—a nation of Law—our human law reflected the Laws directed by God. Those who obey this Judge and agree that Utah has acted contrary to the Constitution have been heaping to themselves teachers with itching ears—have been turned from the Truth to serve the Lie/It is the Judge that has acted contrary to the Constitution— No-one is bound to obey him.
Oh, we’re already there. I fear we’ve already lost the marriage fight; public opinion nationwide is already past 50% support and climbing. There will be some states who hold out until the courts force them to adopt it, but the die is cast.
We need to work on carving out as many protections and exemptions as we can while we still can. But even that will require us to take an honest, objective look at our failures, something I’m not sure we’re capable of at this time.
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