Posted on 12/13/2022 1:38:18 PM PST by Coronal
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed legislation protecting same-sex and interracial marriage.
Hundreds of people gathered on the White House South Lawn to commemorate the Respect for Marriage Act becoming law.
"Today is a good day," Biden said as he took the podium after Vice President Kamala Harris. "A day America takes a vital step toward equality, for liberty and justice, not just for some, but for everyone. Toward creating a nation where decency, dignity and love are recognized, honored and protected."
"We're here today to celebrate their courage and everyone who made the day possible," the president continued. "Courage that led to progress we've seen over the decades, progress that gives us hope that every generation will continue on our journey toward a more perfect union."
The ceremony included performances from Grammy winners Sam Smith and Cyndi Lauper. Smith, who announced they were non-binary in 2019, performed their hit song "Stay With Me" followed by Lauper singing "True Colors."
Appearing in the White House briefing room ahead of her performance, Lauper told reporters, "We can rest easy tonight because our families are validated."
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Federal government has no jurisdiction or power to meddle in the affairs of marriage licensing, which is reserved for the states to decide.
A non substance token fake-law; a pandering LGBTQ+ yahoo ‘referendum’ with the executive branch as a non-binding signatory.
Complete joke. The states can ignore the deep-state for queers bill.
No such thing as a same-sex marriage it’s only a game smooth brained people play.
Like a boy is a girl a girl is a boy a cat is a dog a dog is a pony......................................................
From the text of the bill:
(b) Goods Or Services.—Consistent with the First Amendment to the Constitution, nonprofit religious organizations, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, nondenominational ministries, interdenominational and ecumenical organizations, mission organizations, faith-based social agencies, religious educational institutions, and nonprofit entities whose principal purpose is the study, practice, or advancement of religion, and any employee of such an organization, shall not be required to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges for the solemnization or celebration of a marriage. Any refusal under this subsection to provide such services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges shall not create any civil claim or cause of action.
Churches and pastors are not required to perform marriage ceremonies or other services which go against their teachings. That was what was asked by the question to which I was responding.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, just as with the Supreme Court's scandalous (imo) decisions in Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges, politically correct, Constitution-ignoring federal abortion and marriage “rights” are just another federal government attack by desperate Democrats and RINOs on state sovereignty imo.
ABC is garbage news. Pronoun stupidity.
yep. Sodom and Gomorrah, ancient Greek and Roman empires, Babylon, all were rife kingdoms and city states that were ripe in moral corruption....and the Creator finally said “Enough!”
The abuse of children, human trafficking, worship of sex was ended by the destruction of those societies.
We will be no different.
Pray for the remnant faithful.
But who cares?
this was a move in anticipation of the supreme court striking down those rights like they did with abortion, for similar reasons.
"Today is a good day," Biden said as he took the podium after Vice President Kamala Harris. "A day America takes a vital step toward equality, for liberty and justice, not just for some, but for everyone. Toward creating a nation where decency, dignity and love are recognized, honored and protected."
However, there are some infamous days and events which mark a particular watershed moment. This is one of them. I still remember the day the California legislature passed their same sex marriage law, the city of Sacramento was (appropriately) ringed with fire from the flames of wildfires brought on by other stupid and degenerate liberal policies.
Tis the season of peace on Earth good will toward men.
DCember -- one little spark and it's all good.
I think he means sodomy.
that is how you shut them up.
It’s things like this that makes me happy that I’m closer to the end than the beginning. I figure I have about 20 more years to tolerate all of this BS.
I guess these people don’t realize that they are ultimately going to stand and give an account to God, the Author and Designer of Marriage.
And Republican Senators and Congressmen are pieces of sh*t for going along with this. They all need to get beaten with a club.
That should work out as well as states refusing to recognize slave property by the laws of other states.
The Full Faith and Credit clause does not apply to immoral laws.
you got it
they think they are protecting it
but it puts it at risk
if they had not challenged the mississippi law
roe v wade would still be in place
Maybe president FJB and Opie Obama gave that same-sex stuff a it a whirl back in the early 2000’s.....
I think Coronal was too busy barfing to put one in the title.
There is no such thing as same-sex “marriage”. Marriage is the Union of a man and woman to bring forth children from the sexual act to populate the world. Two men or two women can’t create children. Two men engaging in the perversion of anal sex can not produce a child. Same thing goes for two women, Both have Vaginas. So once again marriage is about bringing children into the world. Two people of the opposite sex are necessary. Biology 100. This country has has sank into the depths of sexual perversion and only God can straighten it out and He will.
Tagline.
Genesis 19:27-28
King James Version
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019%3A27-28&version=KJV&interface=amp
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