Posted on 06/27/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
Mississippi is considering pulling the plug on issuing marriage licenses altogether after the Supreme Court struck down bans on gay marriage Friday morning.
As the state's governor and lieutenant governor condemned the court's decision, state House Judiciary Chairman Andy Gipson began studying ways to prevent gay marriage in Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant said he would do all he can "to protect and defend the religious freedoms of Mississippi." To Bryant's point of doing "all" the state could do, Gipson, who is a Baptist minister, suggested removing marriage licenses entirely.
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“Well there’s a lot of lost revenue that will accomplish nothing.”
Oh well, now that’s the real gut issue here now isn’t it! I didn’t know marriage licenses were such a lucrative source of revenue. If you’re worried, just tell your cops to write a few more tickets; problem solved!
Let civil unions be handled by the court, after all they do the divorces. Marriages is a religious function
Wrong....families, not “civil anything” have been the bedrock of civilization....I pity you needing some bureaucrat to make your family legit.
Yup no skin off their noses if nobody can get married. Doesn’t hurt them because they can do what they want, like before.
OH that is what I was thinking when I typed that. LOL. I am not 100% here. LOL
“Everything that needs to be done civilly can be handled under contract and probate law.”
Till it is tax time.
If they think the left is going to let them have their own private way in their own home, they are mistaken.
The ACLU and Obama have already tipped their hand.
YOU must change what you believe, what you think, in your own head.
You can surrender every inch of the country to the left and they are NOT going to let you alone in your own home and your own mind.
They still will not be finished with us.
“Marriage is a religious institution in which the state should play no role at all. Everything that needs to be done civilly can be handled under contract and probate law.”
That’s a winner L!
Quite an inspired option IMO.
“They are going to make pedophile polygamy as valid as man and wife marriage.”
why shouldn’t adult polygamists be constitutionally protected if they want to marry more than one woman over the age of consent? [NOTE: that i said OVER the age of consent.]
if the USSC can say same sex marriage is constitutional, then that ruling should set the precedent for polygamists? oh, right...we’re talking about an heterosexual arrangement, which has not been duly recognized as a protected minority by our progressive justices...yet. time will tell.
polygamists need to come out of hiding, and start picketing and demonstrating, and send gobs of money [that they probably don’t have, because of all the financial responsibilities having more that one wife and beaucoup children entail] to their duly elected representatives to get their attention at election time.
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. We wanted marriage to have legal implications, which made it a legal matter, which made it a licensed matter, which meant they were going to charge for it. And now Mississippi is opting out of the revenue, but anybody with half a brain knows they’re still going to get stuck enforcing the legal ramifications, so it’s a losing proposition for them. Plus of course if people can’t get their license from Mississippi then people are probably going to start having their wedding in the state they get the license from. The average wedding costs over 26 grand, that’s a lot of tax revenue they’re also going to lose.
Yep, good but not ideal. I'm not sure it is all we have left, but it's provocative in a good way! And outside the box approach....
Obama: You must change what you believe
ACLU: We no longer support religious freedom
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Go ahead and cede marriage to the left. They still aren’t going to stop. They will not leave you alone in your own home or your own thoughts even if you cede them the whole world.
No, the Supreme court is doing that already.
Yeah, well, please tell us the strategy for winning this battle. I fear that working strictly within the system will result in losing it, at least in the short or medium term. In the mean time there may be other workarounds that preserve a traditional understanding of marriage within the culture even if it’s not the formal law of the land.
It’s not just the money, also note they will accomplish NOTHING. So it’s a completely pointless hollow gesture AND they lose money. Lose lose.
Are you joking
there is no age of consent in the Constitution
pedophilia will have to be legal too
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Obama: You must change what you believe
ACLU: We no longer support religious freedom
....
Go ahead and cede marriage to the left. They still aren’t going to stop. They will not leave you alone in your own home or your own thoughts even if you cede them the whole world.
A state-issued marriage license doesn't prove you're married.
A minister-issued marriage certificate is, however, absolute proof of marriage.
You make a number of flawed statements. First, who said “we wanted marriage to have legal implications” - when did “we” say it, and what do you mean by that? Second, why does that necessarily make it a licensing matter. Sounds like a default bureaucratic mindset to me. Third, the idea that a state must do everything, including bend to the Feds, in the name of revenue, and a damned small revenue stream at that, is absurd. And fourth, the ceremonies and the receptions can take place in Mississippi without government help.
I thought I read this morning that Alabama is doing this as well!!!!
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