Legislation to give them hospital visitation rights and the like is fine, but this excuse used once upon a time has long since been addressed with power of attorneys and other legal documents.
The sole purpose of same-sex marriage now is to render real marriages meaningless by letting any group of deviants define marriage down and plumb ever lower.
All of our laws are actually based on God’s law. Believe it or not. The beginning of English Common Law and the American system of law are all based on The Decalogue, the OT and NT. Any law that does not line up with God’s law is counterfeit.
If Alabama has to secede to maintain its adherence to God’s Law, then I would support them in doing that.
The Apostle Paul was very clear in Romans 1, about those who practice such things and about those who approve of such things.
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 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.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Wish NC would fight back like that...The feds just rode in and REWROTE our constitution because they wanted to.
I hope Alabama stands strong: at a 7-1 decision, its a great start.
God instituted marriage— between a man and a woman. So grateful the AL Supreme Court has sided with the Almighty; one of the few normal places remaining in the U.S.
It goes to show that if people stood up to the homostapo and the communist left then this fight would or could have been over a long time ago instead of this what we are seeing today.
It should be thrown out.
Hurray for Alabama!
Thank God for Judge Moore.
I just love that particular line.
Aside from that, I just think that the basic definitions of terms are an aspect of this that the courts are choosing to ignore in this entire argument.
"MARRIAGE" - the union of a man and woman. Anything else (as the dictionary is even wrestling with) may be considered "similar" in some respects, but it's still different.
Apples and oranges are both example of fruit, but apples are not oranges.
I could argue this all day on Biblical grounds, but since the courts won't, I'm going for word definitions... which is what law is usually all about.
Its about time. I think TX is also standing strong. They are coming after GA soon. I pray we stand with Alabama.
Under the reasoning of the imbecile Granade, I would be able to marry my cat.
I would value your insight?
OK everyone, get to your seats with your hot dog and beverage of choice and watch the game begin. This should be one awesome spectacle boys......tonight, LIVE...... It’s the State of AL vs the unbeaten superpowerhouse the Feds. The Fed’s have been playing unbeatable ball lately but the upstart AL team has shown some real courage as of late.
Let’s kick back and see if Miracles still can happen.
Praise Jesus
Why is it so many people do not want to spend eternity with Jesus..
Answer I guess is that the whole world has been deceived.
Always floors me that people like Ruth G of the Supreme Court have no fear of God, not to mention every living breathing Democrat...lets not give Moderate Republicans a pass either.
STATES RIGHTS!!! Remember that little disagreement back in 1862 over States Rights? This is what this is. Each State of the Union has an absolute right to decide for itself what the citizens of that individual state wants for its citizens. If a state decides they all want to run around naked in the barn yard, then that is that state’s issue. If a state decides, as we did here in Alabama when EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT VOTED AGAINST HOMO MARRIAGES!!!! That is 81-19 vote. In a sporting event that is a rout. In an election, it is a massive landslide. Here, it was THIS State saying WE DO NOT WANT, NOR DO WE AGREE with homo marriage. If WA state, Oregon, Homoforniastan, NYHomoville, and all the other leftist commies states want a bunch of homo marriages, THAT is their problem. But, it is NOT A FEDERAL ISSUE!!!! The Feds do not issue marriage licenses in the states. The STATES DO!!!! We do not want homo marriages here. The stinking commies in Sodom on the Potomac have no right telling the citizens of individual states what they can and cannot do with issues of their state. I am proud of our state standing up to the tyrants in the Federal Courts and in the pigs in the US Congress and the Homo in the White House, telling states how to run our states. They can stick it in their ear. Judge Moore and the others who voted against the abomination against God should be proud. I am proud of them. I know the LORD God is proud of them also.
for later reading
This is a preemptive strike against SCOTUS. If it rules as expected, Alabama will ignore it. What’s not known is if Alabama will hold the line. Alabama, and any State that joins it, will receive stiff resistance. Alabama better have a plan for how it will respond to that resistance (e.g., no more legally recognized marriage, Article V Convention, etc.).