Posted on 06/27/2015 7:35:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ah, this brings up yet another sticky wicket about federalizing marriage laws. “Common Law” marriage is not defined the same way nationally, is it? At least not before this SCOTUS decision? So, what does this mean for the people who, for example, live with a platonic roommate of the same sex, for economic reasons??
Plenty of married people sleep under the same roof, yet do not sleep in the same bedroom.
This decision may have opened a Pandora’s Box of gigantic proportions. Think Medicaid and the laws about impoverishing one “spouse” to care for the other.
Evil reigns and the barbarians are in control. And it becomes worse, day by day. Goodbye America.
From the author’s own recollection to the 1990s, he never wanted to be married. His was an alternative lifestyle CHOICE.
For years now (since Lawrence v. Texas) they’ve demanded the ability to get married. They bashed down the institution of marriage, attacked the church, attacked photographers and coordinators who didn’t want to participate in their ceremony, etc. and now they shrug and say “not for me”.
He joked that he’d check with his lawyer to see in they were common law married. doesn’t sound like he was concerned to go out of state and ‘make it happen’.
This was all about ‘in your face’ and not the love lorn desires of a minority subset (those who want to get married) out of a minority subset (2% of the population).
How many of these ‘marriages’ will remain open relationships?
Poppy to Elaine, "Who gives you the right?!?"
Elaine responds, "The Supreme Court!"
Until that moment, I never thought people looked to the Supreme Court, or any other earthly power, to inform their consciences. Apparently, a great many do.
So was Obama’s marriage to Stanley legal then or what?
He was married to another woman at the time but being a muslim, polygamy was the law.
LoveWins?
So, celebrating and proudly participating in depravity is a conservative attribute?
Sorry, honey...you are NOT a conservative. You are sick, and should seek help.
3. Does Virginia have "Common Law Marriages?" No. A common law marriage is one by agreement of two people who consider themselves married without any formal ceremony or license and hold themselves out as married. Such arrangements are not marriages in Virginia, but they will be recognized here if they were valid in the state where they took place and if they were between people who would have been eligible to marry under Virginia law.
AMEN! I totally agree. A Tyrannical Government is evil on all people whether gay or straight, non Christians or Christians. I do not support gay marriage nor do I support Heterosexual shacking up before marriage.
However I am more concern right now with ISIS and a tyrannical government that will give you the option “Do you want the shower or oven?”
You cannot be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
The abandonment of the nuclear family lays the groundwork for bigger, more intrusive government, because something has to take place of a traditional mother and father.
The Congress can impeach a supreme court member for lack of “good behavior”. Why haven’t they???
If Congress believes the court is acting politically, they can impeach those members that are.
Why haven’t they??
Oxymoron of the year award winner.
Sure you can. You just say “It’s a lesser evil” and it becomes conservatism and fixes everything. I know. Sounds stupid. But a big chunk of FR and America swear by it.
Anyone devoid of the strain of social conservatism, whether a faggot, a libertarian, or a northeastern RINO, will always stab you in the back. ALWAYS. Smilingly. They will continually be devoted more to their own degeneracy than to conservatism, no matter how much they espouse the latter.
The abandonment of the nuclear family lays the groundwork for bigger, more intrusive government, because something has to take place of a traditional mother and father.Bingo! Homosexuals are well less than two percent of the population and very few of those actually have any real interest in committed marriage. They are just being used by evil leftist as the latest convenient tool in their attack on strong, traditional enduring families that produce moral, upstanding citizens with no need for the sugar daddy state and feral government handouts. (Sods will be the first in the line to the ovens if true tyranny ever takes hold.)
This trend of the breakdown of the family and people shunning reproduction for self-serving reasons is a far greater threat to us all than ISIS is or ever will be.
I don’t care about this defect. Just because he is “conservative” doesn’t erase the fact he is perverted. Be gone with him.
They aren't about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
He can now be found annoying FReepers in our own back yard.
Bingo!
I was trolling for that exact answer! Congress approves of what the court has been doing, is too cowardly to do it themselves, and can no focus the blame on the court.
What they fail to realize is some people know they can override the court and can hold the court accountable by impeaching court members, but, they approve of the courts actions so they won’t.
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