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.

[B Knotts]

I'm not sure that dogs and sheep have ever been recognized as being able to enter into a contract.

Well, that's obviously unfair and unconstitutional.</judge>

[billbears]

When will conservatives see the rule of law to handle sodomy is already in the Constitution?

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Just because SCOTUS and every other part of the national government ignores it, as they have for 140+ years doesn't change the fact that it's there. You want an amendment? Fine, pass an amendment clarifying the Tenth for all the muddleheaded conservative and liberals alike. Something to the effect of: If it's not covered in the Constitution, the right to pass laws as seen fit by the states to handle their internal affairs, be it social or fiscal, is covered by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Else 100 years from now you're going to have a document a mile long. But don't worry politicians will still ignore it

[Tree of Liberty]

If this stands, it's a Pandora's Box. If there's no constitutional prohibition of queer marriage, what about other unions, or multiple unions?

[chachacha]

Thanks.

[pabianice]

"A Klingon, and Ferrengi and a gorilla go to the town clerk..."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"A Klingon, and Ferrengi and a gorilla go to the town clerk..."

You left out the Episcopalian bishop.

[Sir Gawain]

How about if all of the big 10% of gays in this country

Where are you getting that number?

[xzins]

I am thoroughly disgusted.

If they can't see the uniqueness of a male/female marriage and what its potentialities are, then I'm ready......

When in the course of human events.....

[B Knotts]

Yeah, whatever. I'm not even a gung-ho GOP guy, having been a Libertarian until 2000.

I'm against a elitocracy run by judges, though, and that's what we are rapidly falling into.

Furthermore, no one has a right to redefine terms willy-nilly. Marriage has a specific meaning; these judges are trying to change that meaning.

[ladylib]

It's probably on PETA's agenda right now.

[GeronL]

Judge said marriage can be 4 men and 2 dogs!!

[little jeremiah]

And I want a judicial ruling that says I can fly, and that I am to be addressed as "Emperor" from now on.

[Cboldt]

Why just couples?

Bump ... darn good question, given the reasoning this court used. Now polygamists are second-class citizens. Sodom, Gomorrah, and Massachusetts.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Judge said marriage can be 4 men and 2 dogs!!

Are you guys going hunting or eloping?

[GeronL]

Your right, why just couples?? Thats descrimination!!

Marriage can be 4 guys and a mule! /sarcasm (I hope)

[newgeezer]

God please don't bless this wretched country anymore.

 "God Bless America" 

America, Bless God

[MissMillie]

Well, that's obviously unfair and unconstitutional.

I'm not sure I've ever seen wording in the constitution that offers protection to anything other than "persons".

[Congressman Billybob]

Fox News is misreporting this story, and I assume that other news outlets are doing the same.

Alison Camerada (sp. ?) on Fox just claimed repeatedly that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the US Constitution will require all other states to recognize homosexual couples who were "married" in Massachusetts. A 50-year-old set of US Supreme Court decisions has held that one state is NOT required to recognize a decision from a second state which is "against public policy" in the first state.

The issue then was between two states where one had legal gambling but the other did not. The Full Faith and Credit Clause, however, was the link between those cases and this one.

As usual, the lamestream media have not done their homework.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, " 'Preserving' the Constitution by Spitting on It," discussion thread. IF YOU WANT A FREEPER IN CONGRESS, CLICK HERE.

[john316]

How about three men and a sheep?


Hey leave the aggies out of this.

[Always Right]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people

The problem is the Courts are usurping the power of the people. The only way to stop this non-sense is through a Constitutional Amendment.