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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Gay Marriage Is a Constitutional Right, Bans Struck Down
Townhall.com ^ | June 26, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/26/2015 7:53:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: FreedomStar3028

BTTT


81 posted on 06/26/2015 8:43:28 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: cld51860

Precious metals are worth collecting, and lead could become the most precious of all.


82 posted on 06/26/2015 8:44:12 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

A 17 year old is almost an adult. Now what about a 50 year old marrying a nine year old girl (referring to Mohammed and 9 year old Aesha or whatever her name was


83 posted on 06/26/2015 8:48:21 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Not quite. This is the stance of the SCOTUS majority:

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

The majority ruling is that if a State officially licenses something, another State cannot fail to recognize it.

84 posted on 06/26/2015 8:48:56 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Petrosius

exactly.


85 posted on 06/26/2015 8:49:42 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

SCOTUS has no standing - they cannot make this decision. Marriage was ordained by God as being between a man and a woman long before governments were instituted among men.


86 posted on 06/26/2015 8:50:40 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: longtermmemmory

Perhaps if they are both fags


87 posted on 06/26/2015 8:51:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Wolfie

Be Prepared to Loose Your Freedom of Speech for the Thought Police are coming to enforce Gay Marriage.


88 posted on 06/26/2015 8:55:15 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: Wolfie

Be Prepared to Loose Your Freedom of Assembly, for the Politically Correct Police will persecute the Churches.


89 posted on 06/26/2015 8:58:04 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: Kaslin

The rebellion will begin in 3...2...1...


90 posted on 06/26/2015 9:03:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: longtermmemmory
In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that same-sex marriage must be allowed under the United States Constitution.

“No union is more profound than marriage,” Kennedy wrote, joined by the court’s four more liberal justices.

“From their beginning to their most recent page, the annals of human history reveal the transcendent importance of marriage. The lifelong union of a man and a woman always has promised nobility and dignity to all persons, without regard to their station in life. Marriage is sacred to those who live by their religions and offers unique fulfillment to those who find meaning in the secular realm. Its dynamic allows two people to find a life that could not be found alone, for a marriage becomes greater than just the two persons. Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations,” Kennedy wrote.

Kennedy also wrote the court’s previous three major gay rights cases dating back to 1996. It came on the anniversary of two of those earlier decisions.

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, and all wrote separate dissents.

Alito wrote, “Today’s decision usurps the constitutional right of the people to decide whether to keep or alter the traditional understanding of marriage.”

Roberts said gay marriage supporters should celebrate, but don’t celebrate the Constitution.

“If you are among the many Americans—of whatever sexual orientation—who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it,” Roberts wrote.

Scalia wrote his dissent “to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.”

“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves,” Scalia wrote.

Thomas wrote, “Aside from undermining the political processes that protect our liberty, the majority’s decision threatens the religious liberty our Nation has long sought to protect.”

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91 posted on 06/26/2015 9:03:28 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
So now we have five Justices who cannot see that same-sex marriage has anthropological basis whatsoever, either.

Given that these five are the part and parcel of the six who couldn't read and understand plain English in yesterday's ruling, I'd say that we have a bunch of really lame people serving on the Court.
92 posted on 06/26/2015 9:05:42 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Old Yeller

You said it


93 posted on 06/26/2015 9:05:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: MasonGal

Very well said and I believe we all feel the same way


94 posted on 06/26/2015 9:08:13 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Faggots have the right to marry between one man and one woman. Faggots wants to re-write “rights”. Now they can instill polygamy, marriage of an animal, etc.

The court is useless. We need to ban the court.


95 posted on 06/26/2015 9:30:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Wolfie; Lurker
I believe that even anti-Second Amendment states recognize:

1.) CPL for certain classes of people (off duty policemen, for example), but not for others (the rest of us).

Therefore, this ruling should apply to out of state CPL.

Keep in mind that the Second Amendment is an enumerated right (whereas same-sex marriage is not).

96 posted on 06/26/2015 9:30:53 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: FreedomStar3028

“Or they will take crosses down across America because “the cross is a symbol of hate.””

There is the end goal.


97 posted on 06/26/2015 9:32:19 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Kaslin

In Massachusetts, you can be married at 12 with parental approval, if you are a female, so some pedophiles will say it is unlawful if he can’t marry a 12 year old boy. That the next court issue.


98 posted on 06/26/2015 9:45:08 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Kaslin
“If you are among the many Americans—of whatever sexual orientation—who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it,” Roberts wrote.

What a cryptic remark.

99 posted on 06/26/2015 9:48:36 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Kaslin

Mohammad’s bride’s name was VICTIM.


100 posted on 06/26/2015 10:13:17 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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