Posted on 07/09/2014 6:34:09 PM PDT by markomalley
On Wednesday, the state of Utah appealed a June 25 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which invalidated that state’s ban on gay marriage to the United States Supreme Court. If the court accepts the case, some legal experts say, it could lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage across all 50 states.
“Last month’s decision by the 10th Circuit was the first time a regional appeals court has made such a ruling in the year since the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to extend benefits to legally married same-sex couples,” a Reuters report read.
“Legal experts say the Supreme Court is likely to accept the case,” Talking Points Memo’s Sahil Kapur reported. “With lawsuits piling up, and gay marriage on an undefeated legal streak since the Court axed the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, the justices may plausibly hear the case in next term and decide it by June 2015.”
Since the nation’s highest court ruled on U.S. v. Windsor, a number of state-level bans on same-sex marriage have been overturned on constitutional grounds. Some legal scholars predict that, if the Court takes up Utah’s ban, it could go a step further and effectively legalize gay marriage from the bench.
“I also predict that the five justices in the majority in Windsor will be the majority to declare unconstitutional laws that deny marriage equality to gays and lesbians,” Dean of the University of California, Irvine Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, told Kapur.
Yes.
Supposedly, SCOTUS will hear either the California case or the Virginia case. These are the two cases that Olson and Boies are involved in.
The God Haters will be coming out in droves like zombies. They will be reaching out to the judges saying: “Bring them to us that we may know then carnally” fulfilling prophecy that Sodom and Gomorrah has returned to the earth. The only thing that can cure liberalism is fire from heaven. God will judge this world because of what the liberals have done. God have mercy on us
We know what they will rule and it won’t be good.
This is different from the abortion or sodomy rulings, which at least had a libertarian bent.
Ruling that states have to do “gay marriages” will be fascistic.
No.
Doubtful the SC will grant cert...
In the parlance of the Court, the case is not “ripe”
Filthy homosexuals cannot marry. Oh sure, you can call them “married” just like you can call a dog turd a prime rib, but that isn’t going to make it any more palatable.
Oh these liberal constructs. Marriage equality? Marriages were all as equal as equal can be for centuries. A man and a woman. Simple, basic, complementary and universal in a world of endless diversity otherwise.
There's a reason dogs don't run in the Kentucky Derby. They aren't horses. Dogs and horses have definitions and characteristics and so does marriage.
And so, something created out of thin air becomes a legal standard for judges to rewrite biology, history and society? I think not.
Whatever their relationships are, they are not marriage. Marriage has a precise definition and that is a man and a woman. What they are doing is not marriage, it is changing the meaning of the word “marriage”.
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