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Calif. AG Urges Court to Void Gay Marriage Ban
www.newsmax.com ^ | December 19, 2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/20/2008 7:29:33 AM PST by Publius804

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To: nufsed

When a government recognizes God’s union between a man and a woman, it is still the union that is marriage, not the government’s recognition of it. An assertion that it is govnerment and not God that decides what is marriage eliminates all barriers on government deciding that anything could be marriage. Defining marriage as a “contract” is what is ridiculous and stupid.


41 posted on 12/20/2008 10:04:00 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: nufsed

Marriage is God’s union between a man and woman whether they believe it or not.


42 posted on 12/20/2008 10:06:18 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Publius804

“Minority group”?

Here we have another liberal at it again, attempting to silence the voice of the majority. If this happens then we will be living under a tyrannical government.


43 posted on 12/20/2008 10:19:01 AM PST by rbosque (10 year Freeper!)
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To: Brilliant
"Brown ought to go back to law school. How can an amendment to the Constitution be unconstitutional?"

It is the concept that some parts of a Constitution are more crucial than others, and that they simply cannot be amended.

Expect to see this again.

44 posted on 12/20/2008 10:28:34 AM PST by Montfort (Hugobama - Proof that Marxism is alive and well)
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To: advance_copy

Then why do you need the government to say who can and cannot be married. When you can just have God tell the country what to do.


45 posted on 12/20/2008 10:58:29 AM PST by nufsed
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To: Verginius Rufus

Right you are. My error. I was thinking of Michelangelo’s admired lady Vittoria Collona, but they never married.


46 posted on 12/20/2008 11:08:43 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show us what we truly are. " -- J.K.Rowling)
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To: nufsed
"Could you explain why you think marrying animals would be allowed and how the animal would enter into an accpeptable contract?"

You ask of me something of which I am not capable: discerning the mind of a California jurist.

The legal status of non-human animals is being widely discussed in a number of different venues, not only in California, and not only academically: to these I refer you if you wish to pursue this line of reasoning.

47 posted on 12/20/2008 11:15:55 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show us what we truly are. " -- J.K.Rowling)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The reference to animal0-human marrtiage is referred to every day here. That’s what started my posts today. No need to go anywhere else.


48 posted on 12/20/2008 11:38:47 AM PST by nufsed
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To: nufsed
If it has anything to do with the funeral orgies that the king talks about in Huck Finn, chapter 25, I don't want to have anything to do with it.

"I say orgies, not because it's the common term, because it ain't--obsequies bein' the common term--but because orgies is the right term. Obsequies ain't used in England no more, now--it's gone out. We say orgies, now, in England. Orgies is better, because it means the thing you're after, more exact. It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek orgo, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew jeesum, to plant, cover up; hence, inter. So, you see, funeral orgies is an open er public funeral."

I must admit I copied that from the text, and didn't recite it from memory, like Blagojevich quoting Kipling.

49 posted on 12/20/2008 7:47:55 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Publius804
In other words, the majority of Californians are bigots and homophobes. It tells us just how little California's Attorney General thinks of them and of their values.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

51 posted on 12/21/2008 11:20:27 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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