This was a decision by a three judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Two of the three judges are Republican appointees. One by George H. W. Bush and the other by George W. Bush.
The states should just exert their 10th amendment rights ant tell FedGov to pound sand... /s
Upheld a lower court ruling. This is all going to Supreme Court. That means it is going to Kennedy, the guy who gave us Romer v. Evans (1996), Lawrence v. Texas (2003), US vs Windsor (2013). The decision has been made 20 years ago. Thanks alot Ronald Reagan.
Garbage thinking. Complete garbage.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Beware of PC, pro-gay interpretations of the 14th Amendment's (14A) Equal Protections Clause. The Supreme Court has historically clarified 14A on issues like this.
For example, regardless that Virginia Minor argued to the Supreme Court that her citizenship in conjunction with 14A gave her the right to vote regardless that she was a woman, the Court clarified the following about that amendment. 14A introduced no new rights. It only strengthened constitutionally enumerated rights.
“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 since the states had never amended the Constitution to expressly protect woman suffrage before Mrs. Minor argued her case, 14A's Equal Protections Clause did not automatically give them the right to vote after that amendment was ratified.
Likewise, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights, 14A didn't automatically create such protections regardless of the misguided opinions of institutionally indoctrinated judges.
Note that Virginia Minor's efforts to argue womens' right to vote were not wasted. This is because the states subsequently ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which effectively gave women the right to vote.
But it remains that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights, the right to marriage in this example.
I pray and fast every Wednesday morning for the upcoming July 2 marriage trial in Florida.
I hope you all join me in some way this week praying for that case. The attorney general of Florida, Pam Bondi is DEFENDING MARRIAGE.
So what! Ignore it. Go about the business of banning the marriages and recognition of such.
Nick posts an article on Indiana and federal judicial oppression, and the mod closes it and shuttles us to this article on Utah, same subject. What’s up with that?
One federal judge rules a whole state - from the governor on down.
The BS of this is that despite the gays best efforts the people in that state and others voted to ban it. It was not a close enough margin for the libs to steal the election. These judges need to go!
The courts are the only lawmaking branch left in America. Until they are knocked down then Nothing moral will stand.