Posted on 06/26/2013 7:41:40 AM PDT by Deo volente
The U.S. Supreme Court today paved the way for same-sex couples to marry soon in California, effectively leaving intact a lower-court ruling that struck down the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
In a ruling that assures further legal battles, the high court found that backers of Proposition 8 did not have the legal right to defend the voter-approved gay marriage ban in place of the governor and attorney general, who have refused to press appeals of a federal judge's 2010 ruling finding the law unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruling, which found it had no legal authority to decide the merits of a challenge to Proposition 8, sends the case back to that original decision -- and the only question now is how quickly same-sex couples can marry and whether that ruling will have immediate statewide effect.
The 5-4 ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.
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I’m not cherry picking. I’ve been pretty consistent in my position. Instead of fighting to get the feds out of something they have no business in, you would rather just have the rules changed again so you can exclude the homosexuals from fedgovs unconstitutional favors you get at the expense of single people.
It is like we are back in 1st century instead of 21st century.
Find a post where I said fedgov has any constitutional authority in marriage, straight, homosexual or otherwise. You’re so locked into the fake left/right BS you see hypocrosy where there is none.
No wonder so many people find it a fool’s errand to take the time to vote.
I think many Conservatives took this hook, line and sinker. The DOMA was a HUGE mistake, bringing the Federal Gov’t into a State issue, thus bolstering the argument that Marriage is a RIGHT.
I could agree with you except for the fact that the homosexual activists are the ones pushing this. The homosexual activists are the ones trying to force the government to define marriage in a certain way.
So, if we say government should get out of the business of marriage, do you really think the homosexual activists would allow that? They would still be in court on this issue if we tried to delete any laws on marriage.
Agree, I have a son almost military age..At one time, I would have been proud if he enlisted.. Now, I will do everything in power to persuade him not to join, if he ever wants to.
The CA AG or Governor should not have veto power over the people’s vote, and that is basically what they did.
IMHO, Anthony Comstock made the same mistake when he got the federal government involved in the business of birth control. An even bigger mistake was when he got abortion declared a form of birth control (instead of the state crime of murder) so that he could try to regulate that, too.
I posted that history because in the not too distant past marriage was usually a private contract between a man and a woman and usually God. Society recognized it as a marriage, and the gov’t didn’t have any business in it. I imagine that back then, not so long ago, if 2 men ran around saying they were married, most of society would just have not recognized it as a marriage and a few good laughs would be had. But they wouldn’t be going to court demanding recognition, demanding that gay marriage be taught in school, demanding that businesses do the floral arrangements for their wedding, because the gov’t wasn’t involved in it to begin with. Marriage started out as a religious institution, not a legal one.
Agreed completely. Things are accellerating. Ibelieve a storm is coming sooner rather than later and pray we and ours are prepared for it.
Anything goes it seems. They just legalized sodomy.
I know. With Obama’s faggotization of the military, the “uniform” no longer carries the awe and respect it used to for me.
Get rid of the favors fedgov gives married people for being married and there’s nothing to fight over with the homosexuals. It’s the polygamous relationship y’all have with your spouse and the government you need to deal with, not the homersexuals.
*nod* — I will say this, as for politics the Mormon church seems more willing to call its political leaders to task than the Catholic Church... but that is a rather backhanded complement given that the Catholic church has the like of Pelosi (the abortion fanatic) and does nothing to correct her.
This is so ridiculous. They just do what they want.
In the one case, supposedly they are all about the states getting to decide for themselves. California decided. But, now they’re saying that California can’t decide for itself if it’s power elite don’t agree to defend their decision. So, it isn’t really about states rights. It’s about using whatever justification is necessary to get to the desired result.
Marlowe is right. This has become demonic.
Revolution is coming.
They have no standing at the federal level, but did it overturn the state law allowing plantiffs who supported/organized the proposition to defend it in state court?
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