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To: C19fan; All

Regarding the so-called constitutionality of gay marriage, please consider the following. Patriots who take the initiative to study the Constitution and its history for themselves, as opposed to basing their understanding of the Constitution on hearsay, gossip and wives’ tales, can tell you that gay marriage is not a constitutionally protected right for the following reasons.

First, the Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like marriage means that such issues are automatically unique state power issues, the feds having no control over such issues.

Next, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay “rights.” So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against constitutionally unprotected gay issues, such as same-sex marriage, as long as such laws don’t also unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.


12 posted on 03/05/2014 9:45:38 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Can states have gay marriage?


22 posted on 03/05/2014 10:20:47 AM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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