Posted on 06/25/2013 9:54:04 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
At 10:00 AM Wednesday, the Supreme Court will deliver its final decisions of this term. We can expect decisions on both same-sex marriage cases.
California Proposition 8: Hollingsworth v. Perry
In November 2008, 52.3 percent of California voters approved Proposition 8, which added language to the California Constitution that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. In May 2009, a California District Court ruled that Proposition 8 violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and temporarily prohibited its enforcement, and the Ninth Circuit agreed, affirming the District Court’s ruling. The United States Supreme Court will now consider whether a state can define marriage solely as the union of a man and a woman, in addition to considering whether the proponents of Proposition 8 have standing to bring suit in federal court. The Court’s ruling will implicate the rights of gay men and lesbians, the role of the government in structuring family and society, and the relationship between the institution of marriage and religion and morality.
Defense of Marriage Act: United States v. Windsor
Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer married in Toronto in 2007 where same-sex marriages were legal. At the time of Spyer’s death, the state of New York recognized the couple’s marriage. However, the IRS denied Windsor use of a spousal estate tax exception on the ground that, under the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), the federal government did not recognize same-sex marriages for the purpose of federal benefits. The Supreme Court is now being asked to decide DOMA’s Constitutionality. The Obama Administration is not defending DOMA, so a Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (“BLAG”) from the House of Representatives is doing so, arguing that DOMA is rationally related to the legitimate government objective of providing a uniform definition of marriage for federal benefits purposes. The Obama administration counters that the use of sexual orientation to decide who gets benefits is a suspect classification that deserves higher scrutiny. Under that level of higher scrutiny, the Obama administration argues that DOMA is impermissible. This case can affect what role the federal government can play in defining marriage and who in the federal government can defend the government’s laws. Not only could this case provide large tax savings to Ms. Windsor herself, but it can also make federal benefits available to other same-sex couples who are legally married under the laws of their state.
Might be the nation will be divided like it was with the nor th and south...only the division line will be the sane and the insane...the moral and the immoral...
No it does not. The only part of statue was the denying those benefits in those states which made Gay marriage legal.
How interesting ... DOMA goes down and now we have strange bedfellows.
Please have mercy on us, Lord.
“I’m just morbidly curious, but do you have any objections to laws forbidding bestiality? I’m just wondering if the satanic Libertarians are going to come out and endorse it too. “
I do object. We are not talking about consenting adults are we? Or are you condoning marriage between a man and a female pig?
Decision in Prop 8: The decision of the Ninth Circuit is vacated and remanded...
Why would gays want to go through a religious ceremony when many of them do not believe in God or the Bible?
There is a great article online by a gay who asks this question. He said many of them do not believe in God or the bible because being gay is considered a sin.
I was in SF when Prop 8 was voted in by the people. Some radical gays were throwing urine out of cups at church people.
The names of those who donated towards Prop 8 were outed and then they were threatened.
The Folsom street parade is out in the street with S & M and public masturbation. The gay pride parade is full of men in chaps with their bare butts hanging out. Most disturbing is they have insisted that others view and accept their lifestyle.
Nope, this won't stop now. Marriage will become a protected Federal "Right"...! There will be legislation to cement this win for the left. And it will happen fast!
Drudge: Prop 8 decision by 9th Circus is remanded...
Petitioner did not have standing. 9th Circuit is vacated and remanded to dismiss the appeal for lack of standing.
5-4 decision: Roberts, Scalia, Breyer, Kagan, Ginsburg versus Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor
Yes...bu IN THOSE states it changes the definition of marriage by putting gay marriage on equal with the the norm, male and female.
I question then... doesn’t that cause us all to recognize those marriages as equal (thereby changing the definition of marriage)....because they will receive “federal” benefits rights..
You’re the satanic Libertarian, so you tell me. Why would you object to bestiality?
Newsflash, marriage was around long before Christianity.
I know this is a stupid question, but what does remanded mean?
Only in those states which allow it.
We don't need nor want some big lunk-headed federal government deciding our issues for us or else we're not free at all but under a totalitarian regime.
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