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Posted on 10/22/2014 7:45:38 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
Puerto Rico’s ban on same-sex marriage remains in place after a federal judge dismissed a challenge to the ban Tuesday, saying the U.S. Supreme Court established a precedent four decades ago.
U.S. District Judge Juan M. Pérez-Giménez said in his decision that by dismissing an appeal in Baker vs. Nelson, a 1971 case in which two men sought to marry in Minnesota, the Supreme Court bound all lower courts to assume bans on same-sex marriage do not violate the Constitution. The high court could choose to overrule itself but has not, he said.
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Pérez-Giménez went on to say that legalizing same-sex marriage would open the door to challenges that could legalize polygamous and incestuous marriages. “Ultimately,” he wrote, “the very survival of the political order depends upon the procreative potential embodied in traditional marriage.”
He dismissed the challenge with prejudice, meaning the case cannot be refiled.
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Cue Cir Ct overturning it in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... *sigh*
Put this judge on the Supreme Court. Wow. Someone who gets it right
is he a wise latin??
“Ultimately,” he wrote, “the very survival of the political order depends upon the procreative potential embodied in traditional marriage.”
No matter what the evil SCOTUS decides, God bless this man for taking a common sense stand against all these nutjobs in robes.
This statement is brilliantly simple and clear.
Often, The Greatest Minds Lie Hidden
“No matter what the evil SCOTUS decides, God bless this man for taking a common sense stand against all these nutjobs in robes.”
Amen, and let it be a testimony against them on that Day!
I think that case back in 1971 was dismissed, due to a lack of a federal legal question, or some such legal status at the time. So that case is the Supreme Court precedent.
The homosexual marriage cases ruled on last year did not address whether there is a constitutional right to homosexual marriage.
So, did he uphold the ban because YT didn’t do it?
Is this a “conflict of PC groups”?
EXACTLY! A "sutainable" state requires future taxpayers... I would imagine that the Leftist argument would be to provide every Mexican, ISIS jihadist, and Obala patient defacto US citizenship... to make up for all the otherwise unproductive faggotry going on.
Wow. He’s a *Carter* appointee.
Knock me over with a feather.
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So being that the gay community are a bunch of “lover’s of Broadway musicals” as they say, I suppose they’re singing a sad song today (from West Side Story)
“Puerto Rico . . .
You ugly island . . .
Island of tropic diseases. “
Puerto Rico Libre
Can’t overturn it. It was dismissed with prejudice.
Correct, that ol’ 1971 Baker vs. Nelson ruling. Good for PR.
Is the race baiting necessary? Here is a judge who is ruling on this law as he should based on precedent. If a Hispanic judge is doing what Whitey has failed to do, good for him, but race doesn’t have anything to do with his. Only right does.
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