Justice Dept. latest to apply privileges, protections for same-sex spouses (all 50 states)

Foxnews ^

[Red in Blue PA]

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday that the Justice Department will now follow a landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex spouses, which means they will no longer be compelled to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases.

The policy changes mean same-sex spouses also should be eligible to file jointly for bankruptcy and have the same rights and privileges in federal prison as inmates in heterosexual marriages.

Prosecutors have used various legal challenges against the spousal privilege. But Holder made clear the federal government will no longer make such challenges, even in states where same-sex marriages are not recognized.

[Hurricane]

This is what it was all about from the git-go

[FreeperCell]

Gosh, these people are small. So little depth.

[hattend]

Funny. I thought fags already got “married” in prison

[Pining_4_TX]

Down the same rat hole as freedom of association.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Hey, now Holder and Obama can’t testify against each other.

Who’d a thunk?

[newnhdad]

I bet there were a lot of kilts at that event.. (easy access and all)

[apoliticalone]

There is a segment in America that wants our firearms, with a history of pushing immigration and open borders, and through other divisive policies.

These policies coincidentally are always intended to elevate the rights of minorities, while eliciting public opinion against and removing political power of the Christian majority. They’ve made it their mission to divide the people and keep them infighting much as predators divide the herd..

Americans need to be wary of this purposeful intent to divide us culturally and politically. Disunity and Balkanization always works against the people and for those with an inclination to throw a match into a tinder box as has happened in other countries.

The media and others have made it their goal to keep the sheep at each others throats with such policies. Then they’ll use the out roar to attack some as evil and intolerant. Americans are being played in an effort to divide us.

[SumProVita]

The Federal Government does not have the right to make this determination...that is reserved to the states.

Which Republicans will stand up and DO something about this?

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

The war on Christianity continues, and it's WORLDWIDE. Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, helping Al Qaeda kill Christians in Syria, aiding and abetting a nuclear Iran, promoting dope smoking and same sex marriage in the United States...

The female voter of America is largely responsible for this. Who do you think Nancy Pelosi, Sandra Fluke, Holder and Obama are speaking to? It's surely NOT American men. It's females and homosexuals!

Sandra Fluke made the females cry, and the female voter of America blindly cast her vote for four more years of attacks on America. Thanks, idiots.

[Biggirl]

Revolt is coming.

[manc]

administration is obsessed with homosexuals

[Jumper]

There is a difference between federal law(s) and those from the states. How you might ask?, and thus I shall answer for you. Laws in states conferring the rights to use drugs such as Weed (Washington, Colorado, and immanent in Alaska) will result in those exercising this right to be denied security clearances by the Federal Government. The Federal Government can also confer a law onto a State, but the mechanism for enforcement is almost always, always and if not always, usually, by attaching its enforcement monies already given to the States under a prior program and that program's Federal monies pulled or taken away if compliance at the state level is not grandfathered into prior acceptance (See Title X, the schools, etc.).

Simply mandating at the Federal Level a right does not make it law if it conflicts with the State's law(s), however, your point that it creates a grey area whereas the uneducated and militant left are concerned does make it a force to be reckoned with in the future.

[floriduh voter]

So the terrorists’ attorney is doing executive orders now too. Disband the government and let the successions begin.

[floriduh voter]

secessions? spelling correction.

[devolve]

- avoid all taxes

- barter

- avoid all paperwork

- cut all personnel to the bone

- call it a hobby

- defund the corrupt bastard

[RetiredArmy]

Yup. Force their beliefs on us. It is okay for them to believe like they want to believe. But, we of course, cannot not. If we believe differently than the homo lovers, the liberals, the communists, the socialists, etc., we are haters. I am a hater. The hater of the sin of homosexuality. I don’t hate the person. I pray for his/her repentance. But, we are the haters. Because we refuse to believe as they do. It is coming where we are going to jail for our beliefs. Are you prepared to go to jail for what you believe? Are you prepared to have the government confiscate everything you own because of how you think and believe? Do you have a government check of any kind? I do. I have social security. I have a retired military check. The government will decide they are taking those away from me eventually because I refuse to believe as they do. Those days are coming men and women. You might want to start thinking just how you are going to decide when the GOVERNMENT puts you up on the stand and says, “how do you think?” Its coming. COUNT ON IT.

[fwdude]

Once persons have rights, it's much, much harder to take them away legally.

True, but please put "rights" in parentheses in this context. You aren't given true rights; they're yours anyway.

Even if a federal marriage amendment were passed and enacted, it is highly unlikely that the sodomites which have appropriated "marriage" would be undone. If fact, there would be a rush to inundate the system with frivolous "Marriages" before the amendment was effective, just out of spite.

[cherry]

we wouldn’t have Holder if we did what was right and voted in Mitt....but no, some people are just so much smarter and think they know best and the voted in bammmey again.....so now we all suffer for their stupidity and arrogance...

[Crucial]

Obama’s really trying to cripple this country. The nuclear family buttressed by individual rights is the bedrock of American exceptionalism.

[1010RD]

I don’t get it either. Christians shouldn’t ever say, “Come on in Devil!”