Posted on 03/26/2013 3:34:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Supreme Court justices signaled on Tuesday that they are reluctant to embrace a broad ruling finding a fundamental right to marriage for gays and lesbians across the United States.
As sign-waving demonstrators massed outside, the court completed more than an hour of oral argument on whether to let stand a California ban on same-sex marriage without indicating a clear path forward.
Swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy raised concerns about the court entering "uncharted waters" on an issue that divides the states.
Kennedy even raised the prospect of the court dismissing the case, a relatively unusual move that would leave intact a federal Appeals Court ruling that struck down the law, known as Proposition 8.
In a similar vein, Justice Samuel Alito also urged caution, noting that gay marriage as a concept is "newer than cellphones and the Internet."
None of the justices indicated support for the Obama administration's favored solution, which would strike down Proposition 8 and require the other eight states that already recognize civil unions or domestic partnerships to allow gays and lesbians to marry.
Earlier in the argument, the justices probed lawyers on both sides on the technical issue of whether California opponents of gay marriage had a right to be heard in federal court.
Although there was no apparent consensus on that point, if the court were to find the proponents did not have standing it would not reach the merits and then the federal District Court ruling that struck down Proposition 8 would be left intact.
U.S. citizens in general do not have a right to sue to enforce laws they favor. Chief Justice John Roberts pressed lawyer Charles Cooper, who represents gay marriage opponents, on why his clients are any different as they seek to enforce Proposition 8.
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I lived in San Jose from 77-85. It was great as a kid.
It’s great to be a Florida Gator.
Yeah man!
Are you going to the game?
The singular purpose of law that advances homosexual ‘marriage’ is to force the citizens into supporting and servicing homosexual behavior.
sounds good though have you seen many college kids up in Boston an dother big cities lately?
WOW the women are more manly than the supposedly guys and the guys are more girlie than most women.
Hell I don;t know what happened to many early 20’s and to high school age boys but even my sons tell me that many are just little fairies who won;t get dirty, never had a fight, cry, wear spandex and helmets to ride their bicycle to the next door neighbor and as my wife tells me ,.
he last thing she wants to see is grown men wearing tight spandex.
Imagine sticking these kind of guys in your time machine and send them back to when all men were real men LOL EEK
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I believe that, even if we had a referendum on the subject, SCOTUS would still overturn it.
The Feds are dead set on enforcing sodomarriage as the acceptable lifestyle.
It gives them another opportunity to challenge Christian values.
I see dudes wearing “skinny jeans” and it is rather upsetting. I think they call these freaks “emos”. Between Goths, emos, and actual homos, I feel like I’m in a bad dream.
I live in FL now, but I consider home Delaware, so I’m close to Philly, Baltimore, and DC.
RE: Do bisexuals have the right to marry both a man and woman?
I think the answer would be “yes” ( that is, if gay marriage is law ).
However, they can only do it one at a time.
Can they eventually do it more than one at a time? Time will tell.
I won’t be surprised if the polygamists come out it force next once the dam breaks.
ehy pal I;m in St Johns county St Augustine.
here is how my county votes and not one Dem in power here and guess what we have mnoney and not in debt.
http://enrnow.votesjc.com/FL/St_Johns/42920/112743/en/md.html?cid=0103
Have you ever been here?
Just asked my oldest boy about skinny jeans etc and he esaid yes there are a few boys who wear them and they look weird and girlie.
He said Emo’;s are the oens who cut themselves and I;ve just todl him you know it;s wrogn right, that they are totally screwed up and he said he knew that and neevr talks to them.
He did just tell me that most of the school avoids these freaks and most don;t say anything to them but do give tem dirty looks and ignore them .
He said there is only one boy at the high school and no one likes him, he moved down ehre from Il last year and he hates it down here and wants to go back north to his pals.
He keeps crying hownpeople won;t accept him and yes of course there is a handful of girls who feel sorry for him.
I’ve been there a bunch of times. I lived in Orange Park (by NAS JAX) and I was stationed at Patrick AFB in Cocoa Beach.
Those whiny guys always have girls for friends. Whiny guys piss dudes off.
got that right.
never understood why some guys are girlie and fairies.
Hell we always wanted to be the toghest guys in school and woudl habe fights to prove it, but my oldest son who is a boxer and won the state champs said most boys have never had a fight and they are always protected by the whiny drama girls
It’s like a stigma to be tough now...baffling. Congrats on your son’s boxing.
I think it starts in elementary school now. They want to give boys ADD medicine, for basically being boys. We need to play rough and learn from our mistakes. We also don’t learn the same way girls do.
think you’;re right about where it starts.
My youngest said in his school that if a boy falls over or bangs hiself he ten goes and get an ice pack and a band aid.
When he fell and got a cut on his kneee he refused to go andthe teachers was shocked, thankfully she is old time and been around for decades and said ot me that it;s refreshing to see boys just get up and get on wiht it instead of waiting for a teacher to come over and give him ice.
Got to go now pal but have a nice night and if I dont; see you around on here then have a good Easter
You have a good Easter as well, take care.
just a footnote: if orthodox christian, there is no death do you part...
If the people knew some of these things, there would be an uprising.
I think I saw Justice Roberts carrying a fiddle with his roab on the way to the Surpeme Court Building.
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