Posted on 12/19/2014 4:39:59 PM PST by Oliviaforever
The US Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from Florida officials to postpone the date when same-sex marriages can begin in the state.
In August, a federal judge declared the state's ban unconstitutional, but that order was put on hold until Jan. 5. The state asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay the date, and when it refused, the state went to the Supreme Court.
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So now that the liberals admit it is a federal issue, time to amend the Constitution.
Nope. What should have been done from the outset, is that Governors should have held press conferences stating that they will disregard any federal judge striking down their state’s constitutional amendment upholding traditional marriage, until SCOTUS settles the issue.
The ruling we are talking about was a Supreme Court ruling. They have said it in a covert fashion, but very clearly. Time is a wasting and right now we have more of a chance than we ever had.
We need a Federal Marriage Amendment. Nothing else will stop the judges from continuing to legislate this nasty business.
It is time to amend the Constitution.
When a few “justices” literally change the meaning of a word and then say the States have no right to define it for themselves, its time to end the charade.
They cant just make things up and declare it unConstitutional to prohibit it.
Amend now. A Free People make their own rules, not a few imperious krytocrats.
“So now that the liberals admit it is a federal issue, time to amend the Constitution.”
That would be the only lasting solution and one that would be embraced by most states, congressmen and the people.
Bingo!! State rights! What the hell can the fed do? Nothing, but withhold fed finds for certain stuff. But who cares!!
Run a search on "Little Rock + 1957" for your answer.
You are both right but need to go in sequence as Extremist has suggested. SCOTUS is indeed skirting this issue and trying to keep it out of the spotlight.
Extremist’s suggestion is the correct one that should go first. Put SCOTUS on the hot seat and make them issue a clear ruling while Governors refuse to abide until SCOTUS addresses it thoroughly.
Then, when as expected, Kennedy becomes the deciding vote in favor of perversion, and decides homosexuality is normalized for 350 million traditional Americans, then the states submit applications for an Article V proposed amendment to take these types of issues out of the control and purview of any federal government body.
The amendment should follow what Ted Cruz has suggested and I believe his people are still working on, and that is that these matters are strictly under purview and jurisdiction by the states and that the 14th Amendment considerations are nullified except in regards to the original intents and meaning of that amendment.
In this way, such an amendment can cover not only marriage but also other matters that progressives have twisted the 4th, 5th and 14th amendment to fit.
Ted Cruz can do it so that it’s solid and will stand the test of time. He has the view of Constitutional history and framework, the experience and knowledge to draft a new amendment so that never again are Americans subjected to this type of perversion and lunacy.
Transgender bathrooms be damned!
That disturbing thing comes up again: only Scalia and Thomas dissented.
Alito and Roberts are disappointing.
The possibility of Roberts being blackmailed cannot be discarded.
At this point, I find that utterly believable.
SCOTUS has been heard yet again
When someone changes 180 degrees, there is usually a reason.
bttt
Millions of people voted against homo marriage in Florida.
But they get overruled by a handful of government career elitists who can read words into the constitution that were never there.
It’s very odd, is it not, that for a couple of centuries the outlawing of homosexual and lesbian marriages did not violate the constitution and now all of a sudden it does. And the constitution wasn’t recently amended.
Amazing how the federal black robes are so much better versed on the constitution now than those who lived closer to the time when it was written.
It's a ridiculous game, but the worst part is that we call it THE RULE OF LAW.
Marriage is defined in the Florida constitution as one man one woman, it was approved by the voters. The judge is an arrogant ass
Wow. Only two Constitutionalists on SCOTUS.
What a disappointment.
1st and 10th and 14th amendments openly violated.
Sickening.
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