Michigan legislative action thread
Why the “special weekend hours” for this subgroup of citizens? Seems like some county clerks need to be fired.
More pretend BS. Never married. Will end up like the Canaanites.
Give it about 2 years and 90% will be divorced anyway, like Johnny Weir.
In fact, the following references from a related thread help to substantiate the constitutionality of Michigan's Marriage Act imo, contrary to the judge's decision.
The Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence about any issue, such as marriage, means that goverment power to address such an issue is automatically reserved uniquely to the states.
When the Supreme Court decided against polygamy in the late 19th century in Reynolds_v._United_States, justices referenced English common law, indicated in the 7th Amendment, which prohibits anything but one man, one woman traditional marriage.
In fact, note the wording in the Preamble to the Constitution which reflects on traditional marriage.
"... and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity (emphasis added) ...,"
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had (emphasis added).” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against the gay agenda imo, as long as such laws do not also unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.
Regardless that the corrupt liberal media attempted to distort the Supreme Court's decision concerning the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Section 2 of DOMA is evidently still in effect.
Section 2. Powers reserved to the statesNo State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
In fact, DOMA's Section 2 is reasonably based on the Constitution's Section 2 of Article IV, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, which grants Congress the power to regulate the effect of one state's records in the other states.
Not only is the Federal government totally out of control, the two bit buffoons in many local governments have gone over the edge also. Once Americans regain their senses, we need to put a lot of these clowns in jail.
the county clerks need to be jailed for 93 days. bunch of trash. the problem is the Odumb@$$ Justice Department will be in lansing on Monday saying that the stay is not enforceable. If the Odumb@$$ DOJ shows up the MSP should arrest them too, and have immediate trial and hang them for treason the next day.
they truly are stupid, now they can learn the fun of a nasty divorce.
Headline should read “Homosexual couples Wed, etc....” They’re not “gay”.
A great campaign issue for 2014 and 2016 would be for the GOP to run against all the Democratic appointed judges who have ruled in favor of Gay Marriage.
Name the judges and name the president that appointed each judge.
From there the Republicans must promise to pass a Marriage Amendment and repeal or revise the 14th Amendment to remove the Equal Protection Clause.
Great. That bastion of morality and right thinking... Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
I can count the decent judges on that court without having to take off my mittens.
Legalize gay “marriage” and enact all 2700 pages of it in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve... and have buried in there that while queer marriage is ok... divorce is not.
Homosexuals notoriously can not remain faithful or monogamous in their faggotry... so just let the stress, anxiety, grief and depression of being legally trapped in a resentful “relationship” drive them to murder-suicides.
A misguided lawyer in black robes overturned a rational decision by the voters of the State of Michigan. The decision was rational because men living with men are friends; women living with women are friends.
Men and women are NOT interchangeable no matter what lawyers in black robes say, no matter what the silly younger generation thinks and wants.
Nice to see unelected twerps abusing their powers of office to thwart the will of the voters.
“couples rushed to tie the knot in four Michigan counties where clerks held special weekend hours to issue marriage licenses.”
This is exactly what they did in CA. Then it was the reason for the “equal protection ruling.” You see, since some people were already married, then they would be harmed by a ban on their marriage, as a result gay marriage must be legalized!