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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If marriage isn’t between one man and one woman, it is
ANYTHING
and
NOTHING
Of course opens the door to legal polygamy.
We all saw that coming.
What a clever man he is. I wish I’d gone to Harvard, and then I’d be able to think up things like that in my very own head.
The floodgates are open.
I want to see someone push for polygamy. They need to push as hard as they can and start the backlash.
The flood gates are open now.
“John Roberts: I … can’t help but think this decision opens the door to legal polygamy”
YA THINK???
HomoNazis forcing themselves on America like it was a nine year old boy.
When words mean nothing...they just mean nothing. Please swear allegiance to our new rulers, 5 unelected lawyers.
I just don’t see how you can’t allow me to have four wives. To make me happy....it’s obvious that you just need to issue the other licenses and let me do something stupid.
I also don’t see how you can even allow a age limit. If I wanted to marry a 12-year gal from Waco....you’d have to allow that right.
I bring this up....there’s a French law dating back to the late 1700s that says if you were engaged to someone and they die before the marriage ceremony, then with the permission of parents and local judge....you will be married in proxy to the dead guy or gal. As of the 1980s...it’d only been used a couple of times and I think it’s been used once in the past five years. Marriage to a dead guy....but legal.
If that is the case, US gov’t owes state of Utah a big apology as it had to get rid of their polgamy laws before they joined the Union.
WONDERFUL!
I want to marry my recliner and refrigerator.
If you lived under rule of law it would, but in a non-constitutional oligarchy, socialists hate Mormons so no polygamy.
I think people should just start pushing every absurd configuration you can. Flood the courts!
Let’s get an entire town to marry each other. Let’s get parents wedding their kids. Grind the whole screwed-up court system to such a halt that they wont be able to take a s**t without having to decide if that is “marriage” as well.
“Unlike some forms of marital relationships, a marriage of two members of the same sex is a partnership of equals”
SO.... Roberts is saying that a MAN and WOMAN are not EQUALS ?
“If that is the case, US gov’t owes state of Utah a big apology as it had to get rid of their polgamy laws before they joined the Union.”
An apology and maybe reparations.
Roberts is doing nothing but giving a hint of things to come, he already knows it or he is giving someone the idea. Also, as I said on another thread, can marrying children be far behind?
Well, DUH, John. And how about 3 men, 2 women and a dog?
FeddGubb only apologizes to America’s enemies. Never to Americans.
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