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Posted on 12/24/2013 8:42:21 AM PST by NKP_Vet
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia handed down a scathing dissent in United States v. Windsor — the case in which the high court deemed the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional — he warned of the domino effect it would have on state bans on gay marriage.
His prediction came true on Friday, when U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled that Utah's 2004 ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. And Shelby even made note of Scalia's dissent at points in his ruling, citing it as part of his reasoning in striking down the Utah law.
Scalia warned that the Supreme Court's reasoning that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act — which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples — could be used to strike down state laws banning same-sex marriage. Scalia, who's notoriously anti-gay marriage, was saying this was a bad thing. In an interesting twist, Utah's Judge Shelby quoted Scalia's negative prophecy in his pro-gay marriage opinion:
"In my opinion, however, the view that this Court will take of state prohibition of same-sex marriage is indicated beyond mistaking by today’s opinion. As I have said, the real rationale of today's opinion ... is that DOMA is motivated by 'bare ... desire to harm' couples in same-sex marriages. How easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status."
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Well, I guess we disagree on what the thread is about.
IMO it’s about judges deciding to write their own laws as they see fit. That’s a much more critical issue, to my mind, than what happened in one state some years back.
I would also suggest that your characterization of the Romney’s position on the issue is at least arguably quite unfair.
> “All this started with Willard Mitt Romney Ordering
the clerks to obey HIM and violate the Mass. Constitution.”
That’s right.
And then there is the whole sordid saga of how the People of California passed a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, how it was upheld by the California Supreme Court and how it was struck down by a homosexual federal judge because of a lack of standing due to the deliberate non-participation of Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger and his Attorney General Jerry Brown, both of whom refused to defend the People’s Constitutional Amendment as it was their Oath to do.
The bottomline is that we have leadership that is rotten at the top, who do not respect the People ‘underneath’ them and who view their positions and offices as property to be bought and sold.
ANAL CANCER is 40 times higher in sodomite men than straight men. And let’s not forget Morton Downey Jr’s warning on AIDs.
“AIDs will be cured when certain men realize the anus is for exit not entry”.
99% of the women in this country that have came down with AIDs got it from a fag husband, who run off to sodomite his boyfriend, then come home and jumped in the bed with his wife. More proof that sodomy is nuture, not nature. No man or woman is born sodomite. None. Not the first one. It is a choice, and now the Federal government treats them like husband and wife. What a joke.
yeah..there are some very harsh times coming soon...
The people of California TWICE voted it down and it was passed because a queer judge wanted to “marry” his boyfriend and the US Supreme Court said that was fine with them. In otherwords judges rule this country, not the people.
Nailed it!
You are right about Griswold v. CT.
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Yep.
There’s never been a law making one man, one woman marriage legal. It’s natural and precedes the state by eons. No law can make the unnatural natural.
Common sense has never worked with radical liberals.
Utah should say “Sorry, Mr Judge, your one-man ruling does NOT overrule the judgment of 2/3 of the people of Utah. Pound sand.”
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