Posted on 05/15/2015 3:34:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With oral arguments at the Supreme Court concluded in Obergefell v. Hodges, 2016 candidates are starting to weigh in on how they would handle a potential Supreme Court ruling that leads to nationwide marriage equality.
This week, Republican Carly Fiorina said that she would not fight a ruling in favor of marriage equality. Fiorina joins Lindsey Graham, another potential 2016 candidate, who issued a similar statement.
On the other side, Ted Cruz, who has been a consistent opponent of LGBT equality, has said he will introduce a constitutional amendment to fight marriage if the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality. Of course, what Cruz ignores is that even his home state of Texas now supports same-sex marriage, according to one recent poll. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has joined Cruz in supporting a constitutional amendment. And like Cruz, Walker’s home state of Wisconsin also supports same sex marriage.
So far, candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio haven’t said if they will consider a Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality final or whether they will also support a Constitutional Amendment to overturn it, like Ted Cruz and Scott Walker.
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The legislative process should have been enough to stop homosexual ‘marriage’ in its tracks, it seems to me. The Constitution provides for the will of the people to be the final arbiter, not mob (gaystopo) rule.
Activist judges should have been removed from the bench on their first infraction.
The thugs in black will just say that any constitutional amendment is unconstitutional.
“Ted Cruz, who has been a consistent opponent of LGBT equality,”
ya know the day these nincompoops stop equating equality..with sameness they’ll all drop dead.
The red X’s are who I am considering. I know Huckabee will be added also (I know you hate him, but I don’t). So I will be down to 4. Among those I have favorites.
“Activist judges should have been removed from the bench on their first infraction.”
Absolutely. But this should have been happening years ago, and not just on this issue. The congressional GOP, with a few exceptions, doesn’t care about it. They won’t defend congressional prerogative against out-of-control executive and judiciary branches. They could, but they won’t.
I have yet to see anything in print written correctly. LBGT are not after equality. What they are demanding is APPROVAL of their perversion.
I don’t “hate” him. I just don’t want him near the White House except for a party or the tour.
This chart tells the tale as far as I’m concerned. Those with a green check mark and those with a question mark are out, I don’t care what else they might be for that they may be on the right side of. They don’t exist.
Of the three with the red X, Cruz is the best shot.
In effect a poll asking each candidate would you waste time with empty posturing.
Just as an aside, why would any decent human being run for president under current circumstances?
We won’t have to worry about Huckleberry, except maybe as a divider.
” Walker’s home state of Wisconsin also supports same sex marriage.”
A majority of WI voters passed a referendum in 2006 opposing gay marriage. The only county in the state that didn’t vote for it was the county that the state capitol of Madison is in, Dane Cty.
It was approved in two consecutive sessions of the State Legislature and made part of WI State’s Consitution.
The liberals took it to court. A federal judge overturned it in 2014. Scott Walker said that the issue was over as far as WI was concerned (he supported the law) and that others would have to pursue it at the federal level.
So WI is NOT in favor of gay marriage. At least they were not in 2006. As in some other states the federal courts overturned the will of the people.
I don’t think any poll that says Texans are in favor of same sex marriage is credible. Put it on the ballot and we’ll see. Even liberal California voted it down. Of course, the liberal courts overruled it.
As far as Walker is concerned, I’ll ask the question Cruz does, “When have you fought for it?”
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