Posted on 02/26/2014 2:54:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HOUSTON — A federal judge in Texas struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, ruling that the laws restricting marriage to a man and a woman violated the United States Constitution, handing gay-rights advocates a major legal victory in one of the nation’s biggest and most conservative states.
The judge wrote that the amendment to the state Constitution that Texas voters approved in 2005 defining marriage as between a man and a woman — and two similar laws passed in 1997 and 2003 — denied gay couples the right to marry and demeaned their dignity “for no legitimate reason.”
“Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,” wrote Judge Orlando L. Garcia of United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, in San Antonio....
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I contend that if we go our own way, that they will come and take it back by any means necessary.
The only solution is a complete cleansing of all government and a reset.
State laws requiring segregation of blacks from whites are another matter and are unconstitutional (14th Amendment). The feds have a Constitutional right to interfere with state laws that require segregation of blacks from whites.
However, the feds have no other Constitutional authority to interfere with any other form of discrimination on the state level and the feds have no Constitutional authority whatsoever to interfere with the God given right of individuals and businesses to exercise their freedom of discrimination (freedom to choose) as they see fit.
Why do we even bother to pass laws anymore?
“Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,”
What does that language have to do with what the Constitution says?
Nothing.
It comes straight out of the lawyerly language formulas taught in law schools for promoting what is “Constitutional” not by what the Constitution says but by what the judges “living Constitution” says in accordance with those legal argument formulas.
Texas has all the natural resources it needs to be an independent today. We just need some state level politicians to do it.
A government “cleansing” and “reset” would be just as difficult as a state leaving the union and fighting to stay gone.
Someone(God) should strike down the a-hole judge!
They become Boy Scout leaders.
What is the rational basis then, to prohibit polygamy, bestiality?
Do you know the beastiality laws now are not based on morality? Only animal cruelty. If you are kind to your dog why can’t you marry it?
Tell the judge to go F himself.These bastards have no fear.
It is not "inequality" nor is it "state imposed" or "imposed" at all - it's called language, judge. It simply is what it is. Two men cannot be husband and wife, nor can two women. By definition. Language, judge. Reality, judge.
There are a lot of Texans in my circle of friends and relatives that would like to see that repeated. Just boot the libs and illegal invaders out of the state and secure all borders. Then, turn off the gas and oil pipelines to the other states.
It's hard for modern us because we are so far removed from the original intent of the united States of America.
(note The capitalization .... and lack of it)
Liberals complain that they want government out of the bedroom all the while they keep dragging us into theirs.
Another left-wing democrat POS telling the peoople to stick where the sun don’t shine.
He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on November 19, 1993, to a seat which had been vacated by Emilio M. Garza over two years before. Garcia was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 10, 1994, and received his commission on March 11, 1994.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Luis_Garcia
For the life of me I can’t find same sex marriage anywhere in the Constitution. Maybe some vague reference to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, but you can sure stretch that sentence until it snaps for just about anything you need to make you “Happy”. I think that judge better go back to Judge 101 and start over.
This will not last, if Texas still has any cajones.
No they don’t. They are perverted sexual deviates that ought to be jailed,in my opinion. Leviticus in God’s word transcends the law of some damned Clinton ( what a joke he was) appointee. NO HOMO WEDDINGS—
The United Gay States of America. It’s who we are now.
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