Posted on 10/06/2014 7:07:01 AM PDT by GIdget2004
he Supreme Court has turned away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit same-sex marriages, paving the way for an immediate expansion of gay and lesbian unions.
The justices on Monday did not comment in rejecting appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
The court's order immediately ends delays on marriage in those states. Couples in six other states should be able to get married in short order.
That would make same-sex marriage legal in 30 states and the District of Columbia.
But the justices have left unresolved for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Dead culture.
And restore it he will.
Sodom revisited.
Amen ... Thy Will Be Done, Lord.
No Surprise Roberts himself is a FAGGOT Lover. I DESPISE THESE 9 BASTARDS!
Supreme Court = Owned
Article V Marriage Amendment needs 36 states to propose, 38 states to ratify.
There are 38 states in support now.
I just can’t wait for the flood of homos at the local courthouse.
The Founders never intended for the courts to wield this kind of backdoor legislative power.
Apparently the morons in black robes learned absolutely NOTHING from four decades of turmoil over Roe v. Wade.
You think there are 38 states that would ratify a Marriage Amendment? Now? Maybe 10 years ago, but not a chance today.
Sad.
That’s for sure. We have become a country and a culture without a compass. Its a free for all.
Disgraceful, a lot more disgraceful to bring kids up in this and someone like the Russians look like the moral ones.
Wow. So they let lower court judges overturn the will of the people?
What I don’t like is that:
a) a state of legislators with the approval of voters pass a ban on gay marriage.
b) a special interest group challenges it in court.
c) a liberal judge upholds the challenge.
d) a series of appeals courts also uphold the challenge while largely kicking the can up to the Supreme Court.
e) The Supreme Court then refuses to hear the appeals.
Notice who got left out of the process of legalizing gay marriage in most of these states? That’s right. It’s the voters and their elected representatives who, in most cases, expressed their disapproval by passing the bans to begin with.
Note one major difference between this and the judicial fiat of abortion. In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court upheld (agree with it or not) a constitutional right to an abortion which then put the onus on the states to overturn incrementally.
Here, the SCOTUS has NOT ruled that gays have a right to be married, only that they would not rule on a ban of such behavior.
I have no argument with the states that passed gay marriage through the vote of the people or the state legislative process but to say that conservative states now have legal gay marriage because the bans of such were denied by federal court is turning representative democracy on its head.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I don't think there are 38 states in support of gay marriage. I think those 38 states had the will of the people overturned.
“Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.”
3 solid red states, close to 4 red states and a purple state.
Utah?
Well, that count is less than clear. Furthermore, some of those are LibTard states that in no way will restrict this. They will expand it.
I’ve said and I say again ... an Article V convention would be an unmitigated disaster ... for Conservatism.
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