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Federal Judge Strikes Down Alabama's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
NBCNews ^ | January 23, 2015 | PETE WILLIAMS

Posted on 01/23/2015 4:38:39 PM PST by Steelfish

Federal Judge Strikes Down Alabama's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage BY PETE WILLIAMS A federal judge in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, bringing the number of states that allow same-sex couples to marry to 37.

"There has been no evidence presented that these marriage laws have any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children, whether they are same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples. In sum, the laws in question are an irrational way of promoting biological relationships in Alabama," wrote Federal District Court Judge Callie V.S. Granade.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lawsuit; ruling
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To: lastchance

The think they are philosopher kings.


21 posted on 01/23/2015 5:03:53 PM PST by Ray76 (al Qaeda is in the Oval Office (and John Boehner is their craven servant))
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To: Steelfish
...struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, bringing the number of states that allow same-sex couples to marry to 37.

This is a lie. NONE, I say again, NONE of those states allow same sex marriage. They are being threatened by the federal government if they don't comply, but their state laws forbid it. In other words, the people of each of these states are being forced to violate their own laws at federal gun point. A ballsy state governor could nullify this (along with a ballsy state legislature) by simply refusing to comply. The fed gov would not have the balls to start CWII over it.

However, balls are in short supply in all levels of government these days. It only remains to be seen whether the people have the balls to quit being slaves.
22 posted on 01/23/2015 5:04:09 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: Steelfish

Homos and their friends and enablers are everywhere in business and government.


23 posted on 01/23/2015 5:06:18 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
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To: EternalVigilance

Judges get their start on the bench by sucking up to politicians. I have in over 80+ years never seen a judge who I could bow to out of respect but I have been bowed by evil people in courts.


24 posted on 01/23/2015 5:06:49 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: Torahman

Agree. Nothing short of a revolt will stop what is now an inexorably march to Sodom and Gomorrah.

8 years of Clinton deferral judges and now 8 more years of Obama appointees, many of their appointment aided and abetted by Republicans like McCain and Graham. We now large majorities of federal court judges appointed by liberals including several openly gay federal judges. When will the peasants rise up and revolt?


25 posted on 01/23/2015 5:07:28 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Another one to the retribution list should the revolution occur


26 posted on 01/23/2015 5:11:07 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Steve_Seattle
"an irrational way of promoting biological relationships"

What's that supposed to mean?

It can only mean one thing: IMPEACH. High crimes and misdemeanors? How about failing to protect and defend the Constitution by ignoring and violating its plain meaning?

The same dame is responsible for this decision: "EWTN: Global Catholic Television Network (EWTN), a Catholic-themed television network founded in 1980 in a garage studio by a nun, has been denied protection from the HHS contraception mandate following a decision yesterday by Mobile, Ala. District Judge Callie V. Granade."

My guess is that we're talking about an apostate Catholic, probably of the lesbian persuasion. She's a 65-year-old woman with a real animus against morality.

27 posted on 01/23/2015 5:11:36 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: noinfringers2
Sorry to hear that. The judicial monster Jefferson warned us about has grown to biblical proportions.

"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, Aug 18, 1821


28 posted on 01/23/2015 5:12:12 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: noinfringers2
"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Mar 9, 1821


29 posted on 01/23/2015 5:15:24 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: noinfringers2
"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Ritchie, December 25, 1820


30 posted on 01/23/2015 5:17:42 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: SamuraiScot

I agree Impeach...

No judge should ever feel comfortable stating that a state or federal congress was being “irrational” when they passed laws.


31 posted on 01/23/2015 5:19:13 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Steelfish

If the judicial branch insists on legislating from the bench, then it should be subject to the same checks as the legislative branch- that is, its members should be elected for finite terms and ideally term limited.


32 posted on 01/23/2015 6:03:19 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Steelfish; All

With all due respect to the judge, he is wrongly ignoring the Constitution in the following way imo. The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay rights issues such as gay marriage. So no judges or justices have any constitutionally enumerated gay rights protections to apply to the states via the 14th Amendment to stop any state from making 10th Amendment-protected laws which prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage.


33 posted on 01/23/2015 6:35:37 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Gasshog

>> May all these ungodly Judges rue the day they chose evil over good

Oh, they will. They will.


34 posted on 01/23/2015 6:57:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Steelfish

Gosh, I don’t recall the federal government EVER being granted the power to tell a state how to define marriage within its own borders.

The Tenth amendment applies.


35 posted on 01/23/2015 7:05:01 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Steelfish

i guess the citizens of the state didn’t choose the appropriate option on the last ‘election’

time for a fedgov judge to correct it for us.


36 posted on 01/23/2015 7:20:50 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: MarkRegal05

any woman judge, regardless who appointed them, is going to go the purely emotional route, guaranteed. Sandra Day O’Connor, a Reagan appointee, was one of the culprits who made sodomy into a state-promoted “civil right,” after all.


37 posted on 01/23/2015 7:59:27 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: DannyTN

It’s past time. If Congress had the stones, and a desire to curtail the overreach of many in the judiciary, they would begin impeaching these judges. They would not stop at one. There should be a purging of many, and not only at the district level. Until judges realize that they are accountable for their freelancing, they will not stop.


38 posted on 01/23/2015 8:07:04 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

I know. Gingrich is the only one who’s voiced a plan or desire to do that, that I know of. I hope if we can somehow get a conservative into office that he will tap Gingrich and sic him on them.


39 posted on 01/23/2015 8:26:08 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: madprof98

I’m just about there too.


40 posted on 01/23/2015 9:07:57 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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