Posted on 06/28/2015 8:58:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
I hate trying to predict court rulings, but the political winds have changed dramatically the past few years, so if I had to bet, Id bet that the ruling is 5-4 for gay marriage. [Warning my bets tend to be counter-indicators.] Dont think for a second that politics and public opinion doesnt influence such historic cases.
I also expect Elena Kagan to be one of the five, based on her comments during oral argument, via NY Times:
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So, before the decision is released, its worth revisiting Kagans 2009 testimony before the Senate during confirmation hearings on her nomination to be Solicitor General.
In the course of that testimony, Kagan stated:
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage
I came under some criticism in May 2010, when Kagan was nominated for the Supreme Court, for taking Kagan at her word. Claims were made that I took the sentence out of context, was naive, or shamefully deceptive. Ill plead guilty to being naive, but I didnt take her sentence out of context, shamefully or otherwise. Matt Vespas 2013 post at PJ Media summarizes the back and forth.
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1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress (85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House) in 1996 and signed into law by President Clinton.
a. Given your rhetoric about the Dont Ask, Dont Tell policyyou called it a profound wronga moral injustice of the first orderlet me ask this basic question: Do you believe that there is a federal constitutional right to same sex marriage?
Answer: There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
Sounds like she “Evolved”, just like odumbell...
leftists lie, all the time they lie
they will lie to gain power
I wish there was some way to, I don’t know, get some perspective on all this. There’s a lot of pathos going around but what really happened? Our civilization has totally embraced behavior that no major civilization ever embraced in 6,000 of human history. All bets are off now. Anything goes.
The puppet is bought and sold, just like The Wise Latina and the other two
Not an original thought, just robotics
“2008 (August) In an interview with Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church, Obama defined marriage by saying, I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian it is also a sacred union. Gods in the mix. Even though Obama still supported civil unions at this point, his statements drew a bold line between opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples.”
Yet the other day, he and Biden are shown walking down the path at the White House (lit up in rainbow colors) waving their fag flags. Biden’s wife was saying how Joe put his flag on as a cape, and running around down the halls of the White House, giving high-fives to everyone.
all of them have evolved including the RINOs. We are the only Paleo’s left.
We all know they’re a bunch of liars.
You have a typo..its spelled "Devolved"
Simply never believe or trust a liberal on any matter of importance. Anyone who can mold their conscience to acquiesce to the vile wholesale killing of human life is capable of any abomination.
If you aren’t willing to lie to gain power, you are not a good leftist.
Okay - I was trying to find the article about Biden and his cape. It was a spoof twitter post. And - the photo I saw showing Obama and Biden waving their fag flags (FAGS?) may have been a spoof. But the White House WAS in color, and their official internet page has the colors.
You don’t suppose she was a lying lesbo, do you?
Ugly bird could eat corn through a picket fence.
She knows as much about sex and dating as she does about the back end of the moon.
Allowing her to pass judgment on a case in this realm is not just judicial malpractice; it’s madness.
She/He/It may have evolved, the Constitution didn’t.
It says, and it doesn’t say the same thing in 2009 as it does today.
“Leftists lie”
The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.
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She knows as much about sex and dating as she does about the back end of the moon.
... and she doesn't know much about anything else either ...
She seemed lesbian the interview I saw.
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