Posted on 11/12/2014 7:53:25 AM PST by GIdget2004
A federal judge has struck down South Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel on Wednesday ruled against the state's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But marriage licenses can't be immediately handed out. Gergel gave state Attorney General Alan Wilson a delay until Nov. 20.
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don’t let them bully you Nikki.
let them come with the Military or SEMA or whatever new federal police force the POSOTUS wields. they wont.
Until somebody gives one of these “judges” a fresh coat of tar with a copious sprinkling of feathers and carries them out of town tied to a fencepost, this will continue happening.
Another state in which gays will know the “joy of marriage”.... Now, they will also get to know the “joy of divorce”...
Impeach the usurping judge!
Tell the feds to pound sand.
“I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.”
— James Madison, 1789
A federal judge can’t tell a state what to do.
“This natural law, being as old as mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, from this original.”
— William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (1765)
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 - 47 B.C.
Hmmmmmm, I wonder where Graham stands on this issue. /s
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— Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Ia-Ilae, q. xciii, art. 3, ad 2m.
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Placemarker
We don’t allow it here in GA either so I guess we are next.
I’m getting sick of this crap.
Justice Kennedy has a lot to answer for.
these unelected federal nitwits need to be reined in...one person decides that a state constitutional amendment is unconstitutionsl is ludicrous at best and dangerous at worst.
These rogues judges felt that they had to answer the 6th Circuit’s decision last week.
Divorce is possible without marriage. Stop relinquishing the language.
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