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To: boxlunch
So, just to be clear, the KY law she is upholding is that for a marriage license to be valid the clerk must sign?

So, and I'm just trying to clarify the law, if a Muslim came in and she didn't think Muslims should marry (for whatever goofy reason), you'd support her in withholding her signature there?

146 posted on 09/03/2015 1:30:15 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS; Ray76

I’m borrowing two points that seem to answer this:

This... is the law in Kentucky

Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.020(1)(d) Marriage between members of the same sex is prohibited and void


USSC in Obergefell held:

“The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold - and it now does hold - that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character.”

For the moment I will stipulate to this part: “there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character”

Here is the error:

http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=36466
“The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States.”

This commandeers the legislative process of the States. There is no fundamental right to legal recognition of any grouping of persons assembled for whatever purpose.

Judges are not Legislators.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3332639/posts?page=356#356


(with thanks to Ray76)

This thread has a ton of good information.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3332639/posts?q=1&;page=1#1


169 posted on 09/03/2015 3:50:21 PM PDT by boxlunch (CRUZ 2016! TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!)
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