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Handful of holdout tribes dig in against gay marriage
AP via Seatle Times ^ | 04/08/2015 | JONATHAN DREW and FELICIA FONSECA

Posted on 04/11/2015 7:48:23 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Even if a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring makes same-sex marriage the law of the land, it would leave pockets of the country where it isn’t likely to be recognized any time soon: the reservations of a handful of sovereign Native American tribes, including the nation’s two largest. --SNIP-- The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Navajo Nation, with about 300,000 members each, maintain decade-old laws that don’t recognize same-sex marriage. Neither tribe has shown much sign of shifting.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


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To: Iron Munro

It might be too difficult for a Harvard educated Community Organizer to understand how a nut and a bolt work or how the two different parts of a trailer hitch function together.

But doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand some basic principles of natural law and grasp the proper way and the wrong way of fitting some things together.
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Absolutely correct!


21 posted on 04/11/2015 8:38:09 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Future generations will ridicule Americans and their "homosexual marriage."

Once removed from the influence of current groupthink propaganda, it will be seen for what it is and its proponents for what they are.

22 posted on 04/11/2015 8:43:50 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: jsanders2001

“...its a perversion invented by people with too much time on their hands...”

Or too much evil in their hearts.


23 posted on 04/11/2015 8:44:52 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Iron Munro

Thanks for your comments. That is the best way to explain what to most of us is obvious.


24 posted on 04/11/2015 8:47:08 AM PDT by aloppoct (stucnsf)
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To: Kid Shelleen

In the last Navajo Tribal President elections, there was more than one candidate who looked favorably on homosexuality. They didn’t get elected this time. Hopefully the Tribally Laws will stand until the return of Jesus when true righteousness will reign.


25 posted on 04/11/2015 8:55:16 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

The Dine’ (Navajo) way has many rules on how one must live to enjoy Hozro- a way of peace & balance. Political pressure is not part of it...


26 posted on 04/11/2015 9:09:14 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: jsanders2001

If homosexuality were normal, the human race would not have survived long enough to tame fire, let alone domesticate wheat.


27 posted on 04/11/2015 9:11:49 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Chuckster

Kinda creates a conundrum for Fauxcahontas, doesn’t it?
Or maybe she’s gonna have her “high cheekbones” removed.
Calling Bruce Jenner’s doctor!!


28 posted on 04/11/2015 9:40:47 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wait for the manufactured outrage.

Tick, tick…

Waiting…

Can we at least agree, then, that the most prominent Indian among us, the senatorial squaw from Massachusetts, is a bigot for remaining silent about her people?


29 posted on 04/11/2015 10:06:48 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: dowcaet

Straight arrow Injun!


30 posted on 04/11/2015 10:08:20 AM 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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To: afraidfortherepublic

ditto with the tribe of Ishmael, aka muslims

quoran bans gay marriage

let the lawsuits begin


31 posted on 04/11/2015 10:15:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Kid Shelleen
The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Navajo Nation, with about 300,000 members each, maintain decade-old laws that don’t recognize same-sex marriage. Neither tribe has shown much sign of shifting."

DECADE old? How about "laws since the dawn of time"? They may only have had to write them down a decade ago, since most people who respect Nature and Nature's God haven't felt the need to spell it out until the hippie-yuppie-yippie-community-organizer generation has come to power.

32 posted on 04/11/2015 10:16:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Kid Shelleen
"But while 27 states that allow gay marriage got dragged over the [gay marriage] threshold by judges, the sovereign status of federally recognized tribes means a Supreme Court ruling wouldn’t directly affect their laws."

Surprised leftists who routinely accuse white people of harming native Americans, calling Christian missionaries "cultural invaders", now plan to culturally invade the Indian nations' sovereign legal powers.

33 posted on 04/11/2015 10:21:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Kid Shelleen
"The tribe’s acting attorney general, Hannah Smith, said the resolution’s only practical effect is to make it explicit that a same-sex-marriage ceremony can’t legally be officiated on tribal land. A gay or lesbian couple married in a neighboring county could live on tribal land with no penalty."

That may well be, but she doesn't answer the burning legal question about whether bakers may refuse to bake a gay wedding cake.

34 posted on 04/11/2015 10:25:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Count my “tribe” as a holdout too! Catholic.

Irish protestants aren't too keen, either.

35 posted on 04/11/2015 10:28:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Twotone
Liberal activists pit groups against each other. Why can’t we? :-)

Because the only people traditional-marriage conservatives can form common cause with are muslims.

36 posted on 04/11/2015 10:29:26 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Handful? 10 have approved same-sex mirages. I think this article was written by a homosexual.


37 posted on 04/12/2015 1:41:30 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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