Posted on 02/11/2015 10:19:49 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, is renewing a push for legislation that would leave the decision of whether to recognize same-sex marriages up to individual states and said he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment later this year outlining that marriage is a policy question for state legislatures.
“Even though the Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Windsor that the federal government should defer to state ‘choices about who may be married,’ the Obama administration has disregarded state marriage laws enacted by democratically-elected legislatures to uphold traditional marriage,” Mr. Cruz said. “I support traditional marriage and we should reject attempts by the Obama Administration to force same-sex marriage on all 50 states.”
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide this term whether gays and lesbians have a constitutionally-protected right to marry — a prospect Mr. Obama appeared to welcome this week in an interview with Buzzfeed News.
“My sense is that the Supreme Court is about to make a shift, one that I welcome, which is to recognize that — having hit a critical mass of states that have recognized same-sex marriage — that it doesn’t make sense for us to now have this patchwork system,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.”
The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a recent federal ruling against Alabama’s gay marriage ban, with a Thursday court hearing set after Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy S. Moore instructed state judges to obey the state’s law.
“My recollection is Judge Moore had a similar problem with a federal court ruling that you couldn’t put a huge Ten Commandments statue in the middle of your courthouse and, ultimately, federal law was obeyed,
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Nice lists. Here is one from the lowly Wikipedia on when states passed marriage amendments and how much they passed or failed by. It doesn’t have everything like CA’s prop.22 which passed by 61% in 2000 but it has prop. 8 which passed by 52%. So you can see CA lost around 9% on the issue in 8 years, and 2012 North Carolina (61%) was where 2000 CA was on the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions
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I think the reason we're not hearing a 10A argument here is because parties who have challenged state marriage laws have skirted the 10A issue. No one (on either side) disputes that the states (and not the feds) have the power to regulate marriage. But, at the same time, no one (on either side) disputes that the states may not regulate marriage (or anything else, for that matter) in a manner which deprives its citizens of the equal protection of the laws.
So, the cases that are challenging marriage laws are not about whether the states or feds have the power to regulate marriage, but rather whether prohibiting "same-sex marriage" deprives certain citizens of equal protection.
“With all of the meddling by the court into this issue, and given that Ted Cruz IS THE ONLY potential POTUS candidate who has, and continues to take a strong stand on this issue, In Other Words, puts actions to his words, he can only benefit from his fidelity to this conservative policy position.”
Senator Cruz has moved me into his camp based upon his strong stand. I was following Huckabee, but his rhetoric is tough, though not necessarily his actions. I don’t see Mike pressing the capitulating Governor of Alabama to back up judge Moore....this bothers and disappoints me.
I sure hope that Ted Cruz doesn’t drop this issue should the SCOTUS “misrule” later this year. I have seen some on this forum accuse Ted of being disingenuous for taking this position (calling it futile). I disagree, I think he is the real deal on this...and he not just grandstanding.
My PRIMARY focus has been and will remain to be moral/social conservative issues. Ted please stay the course. I don’t want to have to stay home in the general election because the GOP cannot field someone morally conservative like Ted Cruz.
LOL! Fair enough.
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