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US Recognizes Michigan Same-Sex Couple Marriages
ABC News ^ | 03/28/2014 | ROGER SCHNEIDER and COREY WILLIAMS

Posted on 03/28/2014 9:17:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday extended federal recognition to the marriages of about 300 same-sex couples that took place in Michigan before a federal appeals court put those unions on hold.

Holder's action will enable the government to extend eligibility for federal benefits to the Michigan couples who married Saturday, which means they can file federal taxes jointly, get Social Security benefits for spouses and request legal immigration status for partners, among other benefits.

The attorney general said the families should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their benefits while courts decide the issue of same-sex marriage in Michigan. Holder did the same thing in Utah, where more than 1,000 same-sex couples got married before the U.S. Supreme Court put those unions on hold in January after a federal judge overturned the conservative state's same-sex marriage ban in December.

Holder's decision came a week after U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman in Detroit struck down the gay marriage ban and two days after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder called last weekend's marriages legal but said Michigan won't recognize them.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: ericholder; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; michigan; ricksnyder; samesexmarriage

1 posted on 03/28/2014 9:17:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What about the IRS?...............


2 posted on 03/28/2014 9:21:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: SeekAndFind
Not the U S, the Absurdity General of the U S.
3 posted on 03/28/2014 9:21:52 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seek and Ye Shall Find.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138347/posts


4 posted on 03/28/2014 9:22:04 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I see one flaw in Holder’s logic. If any of the 300 seek to divorce within Michigan...they can’t. So to get a divorce because of the recognized status here....you’d have to (force is a better word)...move to another state that allows gay marriages, and gay divorces.

I know this episode from current lesbian marriage ladies stuck in Morgan County, Bama (my home state). They got married in Iowa and both immedately took jobs in Bama. Then six months later, they discovered they weren’t hot for each other. They had the six months that Bama requires for divorces, but the state said sorry....you can’t marry here, and can’t divorce here.

So these 300 folks...with their federal status...had better not get issues with the partner, or it’ll be impossible to dump them off your benefits package or for you to marry someone else....unless of course, you move and spend months to get situated.


5 posted on 03/28/2014 9:24:31 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
The emperor's high priest has spoken.

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Michigan legislative action thread
6 posted on 03/28/2014 9:26:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I do not care what the children of darkness recognize or not. They have NO power over me. The supreme Authority of Scripture defines “marriage” clear enough even an ass could understand In the beginning God Created them male and female, and said for this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and the two shall become one flesh. For how many years in the place that was once called the United States of America was this also the standard definition of “marriage”? So if something else is called “marriage” what has become of the Scripture? Have we NOT forgotten/rejected God? And If we have rejected the Laws dictated by God ,Himself— for what reason should we Cry God Bless America? Shall the thing formed say to the One who Created it “why have you fashioned me thus? May God Forbid it!


7 posted on 03/28/2014 9:28:30 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hopefully Gov. Snyder still commands the Michigan State Police and Michigan National Guard. If 0bama can selectively enforce federal laws, why not governors do the same with state laws?


8 posted on 03/28/2014 9:29:03 AM PDT by shove_it (my real nickname is Otter)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Well, maybe Michigan doesn’t recognize U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, since he did say that state attorneys general are not forced to defend laws in their states...they believe to be unconstitutional.

Sorry buddy, you can’t have it both ways — Cherry pick’n is cherry pick’n and the last time I checked no one died and made your sorry a$$ emperor.


9 posted on 03/28/2014 9:35:45 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: StonyBurk

The tearing asunder of Language ..at almost every level in modern American Culture has allowed these evil pukes to redefine universal “popular” concepts at will.

God doesn’t call it marriage you dont call it marriage and neither shall I.


10 posted on 03/28/2014 9:37:14 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind
When the US government recognizes same-sex marriage they will be making it easier for gay couples to cram their lifestyle down our throats.

We will see more and more french-kissing between gays in public, in front of our children. It will be like San Francisco all over America. We will see more and more lawsuits to business owners who find their intimate sexual activity justifiably repugnant.

They are not going to like the backlash, especially when God has had his fill of it all.

11 posted on 03/28/2014 9:41:38 AM PDT by Slyfox (When Jesus sees a momma holding her little baby, it reminds him of his own momma.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What the hell does the legal term “Stay” mean if Holder can come in and ignore it????

When do these criminals get caught?


12 posted on 03/28/2014 9:43:02 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Uh, ABC confused the federal government as represented by BO as the United States. Mistake.


13 posted on 03/28/2014 9:53:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course the most depraved administration in US history would do such a thing.


14 posted on 03/28/2014 11:18:50 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: SeekAndFind

These “licenses” are counterfeit documents, created by illegally altering other documents.

Can I cut the corners off of a $50 bill and paste two of them each on a $1 bill and call them $50’s?


15 posted on 03/28/2014 12:39:13 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

With few if any other things has the farce been this palpable.


16 posted on 03/28/2014 12:41:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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