Mass. Supreme Court Rules - Gay Couples have the Right to Marry

FoxNews | 11-18-03 | FoxNews

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Mass. Supreme Court rules that illegal for state to deny marriage license to gay couples.

[ken5050]

Thanks for the link.....bookmarked for future reading....BTW..I can't wait for Vickie Gene Robinson's comments on this ruling..can you?

[Rutles4Ever]

Cajun girl -- what if THREE people want to get married...?
Ten? 20? Isn't that "marriage" by your criterion? Where does it say it's unconstitutional for a marriage of man and beast?

If the moral bar is gone, then everything is gone. Society is wasted.

[Graybeard58]

Any substantive answer to the "rational basis" question or is this little demonstration of being anal all you've got?

Thanks. my little chuckle of the day. Humorous and to the point.

[bert]

Massachuttes should be purged from the union. It simply is not required.

[ArGee]

But reminds me of pro-abortionists who complain about graphic pictures of aborted babies... Sometimes graphic words are needed to wake people up to the nature of depravity.

Also, keeping the nature of homosexual sex out of the conversation is part of the documented marketing strategy of the gay activists. They know that we need more desensitization before we can know what a homosexual truly is.

Or, at least we did when the book was written in the late 80s.

Shalom.

[af_vet_1981]

If you take the concept of stare decisis seriously, the judges are bound by the action of previous courts.

Our opponents do not take the concept seriously and they use judicial activism to subvert the Constitution. I would roll back their decisions entirely. They don't even deserve pensions. I'm not in favor of show trials. Yet.

Moreover, you really don't want the judges coming in and overruling wholesale portions of law because it undermines the credibility of the Court AND makes for an inconsistent policy.

I do. I really do. The judicial emperors have no clothes. They were supposed to be above politics and defend the law and the Constitution. Instead they have shoved a homosexual agenda down the throats of the majority with no constitutional foundation. Try to imagine the reactions of the august body who risked all to give us a Republic ...

Besides, if Congress was REALLY serious

Unfortunately there are not yet enough decent patriotic Americans in Congress. Most of the Democrats and a few of the Republicans think our ancestors died so homosexuality could become the new state religion.

[CatoRenasci]

These arguments are specicious. The fact that marriage does not always work between heterosexuals, or the fact that some (many?) heterosexuals take marriage more lightly than it traditionally has been in Western societies, does not in any way logically imply that the definition of marriage should be made more elastic, so as to include people who traditionally could not marry -- whether because they were homosexuals, of too close a degree of consanguinity, or otherwise.

Although I am grossly offended by open and 'in your face' homosexual behavior, and deeply opposed to homosexual recruiting, I do believe in tolerance of homosexuals who mind their own business and keep their perversions (as I see them) to themselves with other consenting adults. I can give vent to an occasional rant, as I did above, but basically, I think homosexuals must answer to their own consciences and to God for their behavior. Still, while I don't think the state should punish their private behavior, neither should the state approve or encourage the behavior, which I think this ruling does.

[oceanview]

Robert Bork did a PBS interview a little while back where he talked about this, about it being inevitable, and that the current supreme court would do nothing about it. basically, the liberal states will go for it. its a done deal. as you say, marriage is now effectively a religious institution.

[xzins]

I think I'd create a copy of the 10 commandments and distribute it on the web and have people post it on government buildings and schools around the nation.

I'd set up Christmas creche's around the nation and ignore judicial orders to take them down. And if someone takes them down, I'd put them up again. (Probably need "pictures" of creches to keep it inexpensive.)

I'd pray at graduations and football games and ignore judicial orders to desist.

I would have clerks of courts refuse to give marriage licenses to gays.

I would DISOBEY every judicial order that is questionable and have masses of people do the same.

[cajungirl]

I think pllural marriage is illegal. So you have to chose between your wife and your dog. I suppose the washing machine is destined to be an old maid.

[ArGee]

Frankly other adults sex lives don't give me much interest unless of course they scream in the nite and disturb my sleep.

That's a pretty broad brush. Adult activities can show you how mentally disturbed they are, even sexual activities.

Shalom.

[sirchtruth]

There are men who love men and women who love women. Socially experienced, compassionate, REASONABLE people of all walks of life understand that this is not a bad thing.

Don't you try to muddy the waters and twist LOVE into an act of perverted sex... The problem is you do not see pervertion, b/c your selfishness blinds you to the point of being deceived and ignorant. WE the majority will NOT let you selfish paraphiliaist interfer with a good and moral institution.

You want war over this....You're gonna get it!

[Gottwnz]

Thats right, the next thing i see is those who practice incest asking for their rights, It's not going to stop and our country keeps sliding into hell.

[oceanview]

all the liberal states will go in lock step: NJ, NY, they will all fall in line.

[cajungirl]

Well, should we visit you in jail?

[Rutles4Ever]

But but but cajungirl -- WHY is plural marriage illegal? What's the BASIS? If we apply the same logic used to determine that gay marriage is no longer illegal, then there's absolutely no reason a group of two hundred people can't get a marriage license. There's no basis to say "no" if morality is tossed out the window.

[A. Patriot]

Can't let New Hampshire or Vermont "out liberal or out pervert" the state of Massachusetts.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I don't get what the big deal is.

No, you don't.