Decisions decisions!
Posted on 06/26/2015 9:51:32 AM PDT by C19fan
What would have ever given Roberts that idea?
That’s a lot of gauzy schmaltz for a High Court decision, even by the more relaxed standards of the summing-up paragraphs in a majority opinion. The striking thing about Kennedy’s ruling isn’t that he came down the way he did, which was a mortal lock, but that he didn’t concern himself with trying to narrow the reasoning to meet the core objection of SSM opponents, that there’s no way to get traction on this slippery slope. “That would have been beyond the scope of the decision,” Kennedy fans will say; polygamy wasn’t at issue here so he had no business addressing it. True — he had no business addressing it explicitly. But he could have added language that he knew would be pointed back to later when polygamy inevitably lands before the Court. “Unlike some forms of marital relationships, a marriage of two members of the same sex is a partnership of equals” — something like that, or rhetoric about how other forms of marriage might be exploitative by their very nature. Anything to signal to polygamists that if they try to make their play at the Court anytime soon, they may not like which way Kennedy goes on that.
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Perhaps THEN I'll seek treatment!
You probably know much more than you let on.
You know that 85% or so of all Mormons are NOT in Forever Families®?
It opens that door because this is not about a right, it is about the definition of a legal marriage. Our country will now be on that slippery slope to many different definitions of what constitutes a legal marriage.
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