Posted on 04/28/2015 8:42:02 AM PDT by VinL
Members of the Supreme Court questioned on Tuesday whether now is the right time to force states to allow same-sex couples to marry, pointing to how quickly public opinion has shifted on the issue of marriage equality.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was a key figure in striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, suggested that he might be worried about the court moving too quickly to force states to marry same-sex couples.
This definition has been with us for millennia, Kennedy said of male-female marriages. The justice also said it would be very difficult for the court to say it knows better than the public on the issue.
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The subset of the 3% that want to get married. There are gay couples that are just fine living together and don't rush out to get married as soon as a state allowed it. I believe the latest estimates are about 700K SSMs with 60 million hetero.
Which begs the thought - the Supreme Court are going to decide on gay marriage with really bad evidence from the gay side.
If Lou-Costello-in-drag ... I mean Justice Kagan ... didn't recuse herself during the Obamacare case after having done work in support of it during her time as Solicitor General, there's absolutely no chance that Ginsburg will do the honorable thing and recuse herself, either.
Popular opinion is the latest version of “look, a squirrel.”
People who love to think of themselves as morally superior do-gooders will hop on whatever the latest bandwagon is that allows them to
1. feel self-righteously indignant about some perceived injustice
2. feel superior to those who don’t blindly jump on that same bandwagon
3. feel like they are sitting at the table with the “cool kids”
4. not have to actually “do” anything except run their mouths and vote D
I stopped flying my American flag after that decision. I haven’t seen much occasion to put it back up yet.
.... maybe in 2016.
“Michelle is Finkle!!!!”
>> Last time gays were demanding their “rights” it did not end well for the gays.
Lot’s wife took it in the shorts, too, as I recall.
>> Ancient Rome, just before the fall?
Even the ancient homo-tolerant societies never went as far as allowing fags to “marry”.
>> the constitutional right to pursuit of happiness
The what?
Uh, can you tell me exactly where we find that in the constitution, Bob?
Who the hell is the court to “force states” to do anything? Homosexual marriage is either a right embedded in the constitution or it is not. Hint: It is not.
sorry, that should have read that the constitution protects the declaration of independence’s declaration of the right to pursue happiness- which is an inalienable right- the constitution protects liberty, liberty is the right to do within bounds, that which betters ourselves and our happiness
the 14’th amendment to the constitutution was interpreted by McReynalds to mean the ‘orderly pursuit of happiness by free men’ in Meyer v. Nebraska
You are right, the actual constitution doesn’t say ‘pursuit of happiness- but the constitution DOES protect that right with restrictions- which is the crux of the post I made concerning gays trying to claim they have a right when they don’t- they claim the right to pursuit of happiness means unfettered unrestrained right to do anything they wish- they do NOT have that right- no more so than any other DEVIENT has a right to do whatever they wish- We are granted rights, and they are protected by the constitution, but they have criteria that we m ust meet before we are granted those rights-
Exactly. If Christians are worried about it enough to complain on social media (FB, Twitter, Free Republic, et al)...then they are worried enough about it to pray! If those who confess Christ want to complain about it but won't pray about it...then I have to question the depth of their concern.
When they do, as in California, once the people rejected gay marriage the Higher courts stepped in and RULED that the VOTERS could not have what they voted for.
If they DO, they will have managed to create a nationwide state of revolt and upheaval that will create MANY a problem..
My point: We'll see America in a state of DIVISIVENESS like never before.
End marriage as we know it. End America as we know it. End the family as we know it.
May God have mercy on the Supreme Court and on America.
This Supreme Court hearing is a sham and any ruling in favor of mandatory acceptance of sodomy is arguably void on its face.
First: No federal court has jurisdiction to judge marriage as marriage is neither a right nor a privilege. For proof of this fact try to marry your adult sibling. As such its not covered under the 14ths jurisdiction, nor is it a civil rights claim.
Second: Marriage is an establishment of religion. The First Amendment bars the government from changing it.
Third: Kagan and Ginsberg by publicly advocating for forced public acceptance of sodomy have demonstrated a bias as well as conflict of interest requiring them to recuse themselves from the case. They have not done so.
The absence of the forgoing arguments in front of the court and the refusal to recuse themselves by the two who have shown the most conflict of interest in the case are proof the hearing today is a sham.
Even the kings and nobility of the decadent 17th and 18th centuries didn’t marry their boys..
nor did they consider it...it just wasn’t done..
The homosexual bed fellows were lumped in with mistresses...just an extramarital sin and pastime, not a permanent relationship ...
yes the mistresses sometimes had the kings ear but not any homosexual partners and the mistresses were eventually replaced by younger women or fell out of favor...
Madame Pompadours were rare ..
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