Posted on 10/07/2014 1:38:50 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
WASHINGTON—The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down same-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada, setting the stage for legal gay marriages in five more Western states.
The unanimous decision comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand lower-court rulings that ended bans in five other states, a move that effectively expanded the right to gay marriage to 30 U.S. states. The Ninth Circuit decision will apply to five states with marriage bans in that appellate circuit, likely expanding to 35 the number of states with legal same-sex marriage.
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The People be damned.
Bow down to your robed masters!
Yep the Supreme Court is just a bastion of liberty. >:(
BTW all those were Democrat Pack Courts too!
From the Court's point of view this same argument could have been applied to the states that enacted the Separate but Equal Jim Crow laws.
Absent a Constitutional Amendment, this is a done deal. The legal basis is just not there to continue the ban.
Dredd Scott v. Sandiford
Looks like they all got the memo. The only way to stop this madness is a full blown revolution or the states seceding. I go with the second but we know neither is going to happen.
Some ballsy governor, and I can’t really think of one, should issue his own executive order stating that no gay marriage should be performed in his state and if anyone does they will be arrested and charged under state law.
BS. The question of slavery and race had been long simmering. For centuries, since creation, sodomy has not been considered on the same footing as the human rights of those with different skin color.
We the people’s desires overturned by 3 f’n judges.
When will Karma ever bite these radical judges in the ass (pun intended)?
;)
“BTW all those were Democrat Pack Courts too!”
That is not correct.
What if a state simply stopped collecting marriage records, leaving it entirely up to private religious institutions?
government of the judges, by the judges for the judges.
That would be liberty and government can’t have that. The tax code would have to be fixed and that would be a reduction in power. Nobody gives up power willingly, except people like George Washington.
Satan is executing his game plan with clockwork precision.
The people have to stop seeing the court as legitimate. Well, legitimate like the mafia is, but not legitimate as ought to be followed as a matter of moral right. I don;t see massive civil disobedience happening, ala Gandhi and India, not over this issue, and probably not ever, in this country. The people are soft and lazy and stupid.
Thanks SoFloFreeper. That's the bottom line about what the courts are doing.
More specifically, the courts are wrongly overturning bonafide 10th Amendment-protected state laws that ban same-sex marriage laws by arguing a PC interpration of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause (EPC) in Section 1 of that amendment as per the following explanation.
Pro-gay activist judges are wrongly putting on their "magic glasses" to subjectively read the right to gay marriage into the EPC. But in doing so they are wrongly ignoring that the Supreme Court has previously clarified that 14A didn't add new protections to the Constitution. It only strengthens protections expressly amended to the Constitution by the states.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
In fact, the Court's statement from Minor reflects the official clarification of the scope of Section 1 of 14A where the EPC is found, the clarification mady by John Bingham, the main author of Section 1. Bingham had stated that 14A applies only those protections enumerated into the Constitution by the states to the states.
“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
And since the state have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay issues, gay marriage in this case, the states are free to make 10A-protected laws which discriminate against gay marriage imo, as long as such laws don't unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated protections.
Don't be mad at me!
Save your rage for the Courts and Judges...as that is their core logic.
Didn’t really lash out at you, just the faulty reasoning.
Hope you understand. :-)
If something like that was ever going to happen you would think it would have happened in the past 40+ years of federally imposed legalization of killing unborn people.
Freegards
I used to pray for America. But it’s becoming such a depraved cesspool of evil, I figure I’m getting within whispering distance of now praying for its demise.
If America is bound and determined to embrace such evil, I’m ready to opt for secession. The republic can just die.
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