Posted on 02/11/2014 10:51:19 AM PST by GIdget2004
The governor and attorney general of Nevada are withdrawing their defense of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, marking the third time since last summer that state law-enforcement officials have publicly disavowed laws limiting marriage to one man and one woman.
In court papers filed late Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Nevada Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto, said that neither she nor other state officials, including Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, would continue to defend the state’s same-sex marriage law.
The briefing filed by Ms. Masto’s office said that as recently as late 2012, “the law regarding treatment of same-sex couples under traditional marriage laws was uncertain and open to interpretation.”
Since then, however, legal developments had persuaded state officials that the state’s law banning same-sex marriage was no longer defensible.
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The fish rots from the head down. Obama has been allowed to forgo enforcement of any law he doesn’t like. Now governors can do the same. Who the hell is going to stop them?
There WiILL be a Judgement Day. The GOP is finished. America soon to follow.
“In Nevada prostitution is legal, the state makes all of its money off of gambling, you can get married in a drive-thru, and you’re worried about the handful of gays that want to get married?”
That is precisely the complicating concern about Gay Marriage in Nevada.
Las Vegas will see hoards of gay couples flocking to the city and getting married at a rapid pace in the drive thru wedding chapels. It will become the Gay Marriage Capitol of America.
It will also complicate matters for straight couples who go to Vegas to get married as it may take them longer to actually get married as all the marriage chapels in the city will be booked solid with gay weddings.
And there will be mischief just as there is today with straight people who meet in Vegas, party for a night and then get married, only to regret it by brunch.
Worse if all, after these gays from Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and other pro family states get married in Vegas, they will return to their home states with all the privileges of a real married couple.
I don’t think there has been any morality there for a long time, if ever-look at what fuels their economy, and has for many, many years.
Without gambling, shows and drive-thru weddings and divorces, Las Vegas would be a dusty non-destination, not an oasis in the desert that sucks up enough precious water to sustain a small city for at least a week in one day-I consider that immoral, but I’m not king...
He bowed to Satan. Like most of the other republicans in Sodom on the Potomac.
i left a comment on the law sight connected to that article and it deleted it automatically
Ok when is the law going to realize this issue isnt about Gay Marriage it’s about special rights for some reason these folks feel they are more special than others which they are not they are humans no better no worse than any others no one deserves special rights cassatus the laws that have been written in the Constitution of these United States in fact i believe if they want to get married they should be allowed and a law requiring permission is not nor should be required but heres where the [special] comes to circumvent the law They want special rights to get everything afforded a normal marriage and these marriages are not normal they are being forced to be made normal on an otherwise powerless society all things like insurances and the like should have to be the individuals responsibility in same sex marriages forcing normal folks to require and serve same sex couples merely because they are the same sex is tantamount to forced labor you asked an opinion you have it !
I wasn’t mean either !
[.....the jig is up]
Thass racis.
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