Missouri's gay marriage ban thrown out; St. Louis issuing licenses

Los Angeles Times ^ | 11/05/2014 | Lauren Raab, James Queally

[BurningOak]

A judge overturned Missouri’s ban on gay marriage Wednesday, and St. Louis immediately began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The state’s ban violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and due process clause, St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex M. Burlison wrote in his ruling. “Any same-sex couple that satisfies all the requirements for marriage under Missouri law, other than being of different sexes, is legally entitled to a marriage license,” he wrote.

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St. Louis ended up issuing marriage licenses to four same-sex couples Wednesday afternoon, and more are expected in the days to come, said Jennifer Florida, St. Louis' recorder of deeds and vital records registrar.

[BurningOak]

Notice how the enemies of Godliness are completely unfazed by the electoral beating they got. They could care less that the people rejected Obama's agenda. They think they have a right to lord over us and tell us how to live our lives. When will the people say enough is enough?

[Oliviaforever]

Elections have consequences, and the consequence for Democrats and the gays will be the passage of a Pro Traditional Marriage Amendment to the US Constitution.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

We the Judges of the United States of America do hereby override the will of the people and call up down, black white, good evil and whatever else we want. Things must be viewed as the same which are fundamentally and biologically not the same BECAUSE WE SAY SO. Or else....go to jail, sacrifice your job, your business, etc.

America: Land of the used to be free and home of the Judicial Tyrants.

[greeneyes]

St. Louis liberals - the unwanted gift that just keeps on giving. Get rid of these liberal judges. I really hate the way these judges are trashing our country.

[Cowboy Bob]

It’s time for the new congress to start impeaching federal judges who promote gay marriage.

[ForYourChildren]

This is real odd, there are a few homosexual freepers over on this thread trying to act like it is normal for them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3223603/posts

[Ezekiel]

Beast.gov is convinced it can wipe away natural order and create a new biological reality with the stroke of a pen.

There’s just no way that this level of delusion and depravity can be sustained for long.

[BurningOak]

I wrote a reply on that thread, basically they have a right to be here as long as they do not advocate the homosexual agenda. I am opposed to the homosexual political program (largely pushed by heterosexual liberals). Ordinary homosexuals are just sinners and we are to love, pray, and witness to them.

[PieterCasparzen]

The same for ordinary pedophiles, right ?

[BurningOak]

No. One is a particularly vile type of rapist (and a sinner going to hell). The other is just a sinner going to hell. Sinner get witnessed to. Criminals get jailed first, witnessed to after.

[PieterCasparzen]

So what’s the dividing line between pedophile and garden-variety homosexual ?

The child’s 18th birthday ?

[BurningOak]

Same as the line between a pedophile and a garden-variety heterosexual, whatever it is in your state.

[PieterCasparzen]

No. One is a particularly vile type of rapist (and a sinner going to hell). The other is just a sinner going to hell. Sinner get witnessed to. Criminals get jailed first, witnessed to after.

This contradicts Scripture.

Homosexual relations are a sin referred to throughout the Bible as an abomination.

As a Christian, one must put God's Law Word, the Bible, above the civil laws. The Bible gives the Christian a higher standard.

America decriminalized sodomy over about the past 50 years and did not yet decriminalize the rape of children, yet the Bible has always held that rape and sodomy were both sins - and the Bible simply does not say that a pedophile is a "particularly vile type of rapist" anywhere in the text.

The Word of God is a two-edged sword - it divides those who love Christ from those who hate him. Preach God's Word to sinners, yes. Contend with them, for the sake of Christ's Kingdom. As many as will REPENT - admit they are sinning, admit what they are doing is a sin, and PUT OFF THE OLD MAN, be BORN AGAIN (1 Peter 1:23) - will hear the Word and follow Christ. Those who do not repent are damned. That is why the Gospel message is never preached in vain.

Luke 12:51 "51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:"

Scripture can no more be used to rationalize being friendly with sodomites than it can be used to rationalize being friendly with pedophiles, thieves, murderers, adulterers or fornicators (yes, any sexual relations outside of marriage).

1 Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"

1 Corinthians 5

"9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."

[fwdude]

So, the State Constitution means nothing to STATE judges anymore?

We have completely crossed the Rubicon of depravity now. There is no rationale to ban anything.

[madprof98]

So, the State Constitution means nothing to STATE judges anymore?

They learn in law school that they ARE the law. Watch for traffic-court judges to start reversing the direction of one-way streets.