Posted on 01/16/2015 1:19:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Decision Later This Year Could Extend Gay Marriage to All 50 States or Cloud Existing Unions
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday said it would decide whether the U.S. Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to marry, signaling what could be the final chapter of a push by advocates to extend gay unions nationwide.
The court accepted challenges to same-sex marriage bans in four states—Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee—that a federal appeals court upheld in November 2014. The ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati departed from recent decisions by other appeals courts that found same-sex couples enjoyed a right to marry under the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection and due-process provisions.
The justices are taking up the issue in the middle of the court’s current term after having earlier rejected pleas by states to reinstate marriage restrictions that appellate courts had found unconstitutional. The Sixth Circuit ruling, the first to uphold the restriction of marriage to heterosexuals, created a split among the court circuits that didn’t exist in October, making it more likely the Supreme Court could get involved.
The court agreed to hear two specific constitutional questions on same-sex marriage laws and will hear extended arguments.
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How can states be required to recognize same sex marriages from other states if their own laws prohibit them? It’d be like states being forced to allow hookers to ply their trade because they’re from Nevada.
Does anyone realize that what these actually are, are tax definition decisions?
No?
Didn’t think so. Carry on.
The SCOTUS decriminalized baby-killing 42 years ago.
The decriminalization of homo marriage is just a “natural” progression toward America’s demise.
Flawed premise by flawed definition.
Calling a committed gay or lesbian couple a marriage doesn't make it so.
A better question is does the Constitution protect children?
Two mommies or two daddies isn't a "marriage" made for children.
Do kids have the right to "mom and dad" parents or should they be forced to accept something entirely different and all that goes with it, so that a small minority can fundamentally transform society in order to accommodate their own wants and desires?
Most states don't allow 16-year-olds or first cousins to get married, but most do recognize such marriages if they were performed in a state that permits them.
“Romans 1:..
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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Sounds very much like the world this court has over the generations lawlessly acted to create by abolishing our right to govern yourself faithful to the dictates of our conous in favor of their own wicket and lawless policy based upon distant strained illusions of constitutionality eagerly accepted and inveted for the very men who stand to benefit in unbounded power by.
The Federal courts must be abolished thier sense of law so distant from that which was written and practiced for 200 years it bares no resemblance to the same.
No sane and honest man could ever say that which has never been true is now suddenly true of that which has not changed. That is the defintion of the corrupt & self-serving insanity that now Defines the Federal Employees in black-robes
The justices who favor homosexual “marriage” will have to find a reason why this is not a states right and the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply.
That will be difficult. I predict Kennedy rules that, on both issues, that marriage is a states right. This will effectively overturn all decisions made by Federal courts on the matter.
The decriminalization of homo marriage is just a “natural” progression toward America’s demise.
Agreed. I fear this will be the final step in GOD withdrawing His hand of protection over our once great nation.
We are living America’s demise in real time.
The reversal of all we once were and once represented as country. America is becoming a nation that worships depravity and celebrates evil.
By the end, I can imagine seeing America’s demise as a positive.
Does the Constitution have any jurisdiction over marriage at all?
I’ll say it again. The Constitution does not delegate power to the federal government over marriage, so SCOTUS has no legal basis for doing anything with this other than repealing lower federal court rulings and declaring marriage a states’ issue (confirmed by the Tenth Amendment).
No. Read post #53.
A wrong can never be a right. Our government is so corrupt and in need of judgment.
All Votes Are Equal, But the Black Robes Votes are More Equal than Yours.
Just like the Dredd V. Sanford Decision, Which led to the Civil War.
A States Anti-Slavery Laws?
Out the Door!
“Most states don’t allow 16-year-olds or first cousins to get married, but most do recognize such marriages if they were performed in a state that permits them.”
Most not all thou, I suppose the presumption there is that other states had verified that the folk in question were not biologically first cousins and thus not really first cousins at all except by legal fiction of the state.
The key issue of course being that of children and the presumption that marriage is about producing children in a stable and healthy atmosphere.
Something by the laws of Nature that only a man and woman can ever do. But as the lawless Federal Employees in black robes have no interest in either the laws of nature much-less theses united States.
I suppose it really doesn’t matter what they call marriage. They are but powerful idiots content to preach and enforce natural lies. One day their mountains of lies will destroy them just like everyone else who follow there self-destructive path.
This particular lie that everyone seems to believe they are poised to tell will simply undermine the legal fabric of marriage effectively forcing a new definition separate and apart from their own leading to two distinct cultures one that follows them which will collapse demographically as a result of their collapsed family structure and the other that follows their faith and upholds the propose of the union.
Over the long run that leads of course to two different nations, one growing and vitreous, the other dying and sinful.
Just like abortion, marriage is NOT a constitutionally delegated federal issue and therefore, a states’ issue. SOCTUS only has the legitimate, constitutional power to strike down lower federal court rulings and declare this to be a states’ issue.
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