After Roberts flip flopped and supported Obamacare...i no longer trust the Supreme Court to uphold the founders interpretation of the Consitution....the leftward slide of the Titanic that is America slowly sinks into some sort of twilight zone...
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LEX
Surprisingly??? I'd be surprised if Roberts doesn't as his queer cousin says he will do and vote FOR gay marriage.
“At one point, Cooper argued that procreation was a vital state interest, and that same-sex couples don’t address it, the Washington Post reports.”
Of all the good arguments arguments against gay marriage, Cooper took up the worst which is that same sex couple should not be able to marry because they cannot procreate.
Older couples cannot procreate, infertile couples cannot procreate and prisoners who are permitted to marry cannot procreate.
Bad argument and one that was easily shot down.
It’s no surprise that Roberts is going with the liberals here. He’s Bush’s Earl Warren, a bait and switch.
so the govenmental elites can invalidate a valid vote by refusing to do their job?
Why have referenda?
Why does california have the ability to refuse at the state court level but jump in at the appelate level?
Roberts is a George Bush Jr. ringer..
“JUSTICE SCALIA: I’m curious, when - when did — when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted? Sometimes — some time after Baker, where we said it didn’t even raise a substantial Federal question? When — when — when did the law become this?
MR. OLSON: When — may I answer this in the form of a rhetorical question? When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages? When did it become unconstitutional to assign children to separate schools.
JUSTICE SCALIA: It’s an easy question, I think, for that one. At — at the time that the Equal Protection Clause was adopted. That’s absolutely true. But don’t give me a question to my question. When do you think it became
unconstitutional? Has it always been unconstitutional? . . .
MR. OLSON: It was constitutional when we -as a culture determined that sexual orientation is a characteristic of individuals that they cannot control, and that that -
JUSTICE SCALIA: I see. When did that happen? When did that happen?
MR. OLSON: There’s no specific date in time. This is an evolutionary cycle. “
I hate the “Living Constitution” of the feudalists- it obviates thinking.
Uh, what? I don't recall reading any decisions signed by "we as a culture". Nor do I think "we as a culture" have any particular scientific credentials to determine whether sexual behavior is controllable.
It is clear, though, that certain persons who style themselves as cultural leaders have decided to ramrod the thing through, but I don't recall them having any Constitutional standing either. Well, Lady Gaga maybe.
Let me get this straight: an Act of the Whole People of the State can be blocked by the first judge the ACLU runs sniveling to?
My cash under the bench to a roundheeled political judge equals your Majesty of the Law and your Sovereignty of the People? These things mean nothing after the judge enters the room?
“Perpetual swing voter Anthony Kennedy seemed focused on the harm banning same-sex marriage might have on the children of gay couples.”
“Harm?”
Irrelevant.
The question is the LAW, not “harm.”
Its way too early to tell
Kagan and Ginsburg would like to redefine marriage I bet
And Scalia Alito and Thomas likely not
The rest of it
Who knows...