[markomalley]

Hopefully, Roberts will not allow this to come onto the Court's calendar until next spring.

[markomalley]

To quote Pope Leo XIII back in 1880:

25. From the beginning of the world, indeed, it was divinely ordained that things instituted by God and by nature should be proved by us to be the more profitable and salutary the more they remain unchanged in their full integrity. For God, the Maker of all things, well knowing what was good for the institution and preservation of each of His creatures, so ordered them by His will and mind that each might adequately attain the end for which it was made. If the rashness or the wickedness of human agency venture to change or disturb that order of things which has been constituted with fullest foresight, then the designs of infinite wisdom and usefulness begin either to be hurtful or cease to be profitable, partly because through the change undergone they have lost their power of benefiting, and partly because God chooses to inflict punishment on the pride and audacity of man. Now, those who deny that marriage is holy, and who relegate it, stripped of all holiness, among the class of common secular things, uproot thereby the foundations of nature, not only resisting the designs of Providence, but, so far as they can, destroying the order that God has ordained. No one, therefore, should wonder if from such insane and impious attempts there spring up a crop of evils pernicious in the highest degree both to the salvation of souls and to the safety of the commonwealth.

Arcanum

[pepsionice]

I would agree. There’s a full plate as it is right now.

The curious thing here...you can’t identify anything in the Constitution where Congress can manage or control marriage...except for possible the commerce clause (that’s the one that health care fell under). I suspect that they will say that the national government can’t regulate, award, or control marriage...with the current Constitution. So it may invite lots of lawsuits over how taxes are done, or how benefits are done via social security.

However, they may point out that several states have Constitutions which discuss this, and they are within their limits of making various laws to manage marriage. So a state-by-state effort will come out of this.

[xzins]

The law was passed at a time when it appeared Hawaii would legalize gay marriage. Since then, many states have instituted their own bans on gay marriage, while eight states have approved the practice, led by Massachusetts in 2004.

And Mitt Romney was governor at that time.

[tophat9000]

A simple true statement:

Like Air Water & Food The heterosexual act and only the heterosexual act is an absolute requirement for the survival of the human race ...

Therefore is it not logical and in fact necessary that governments must acknowledge this as a unique requirement in human relation?

Given that the heterosexual act is a unique requirement for humans reproductive survival... Heterosexual "Marriage" is certainly the first and oldest human institution ...

It is, as much as Air Water & Food, a natural law for human survival and predates all human law

[longtermmemmory]

in related news, the attack on children by the fetisists condinues. DCcomics just announced the “revised” character is alan scott, the golden age era green lantern. HOWEVER, it is the one on the alternative universe earth 2. (IOW the disposable universe)

This entire doma debate is solidly foundationed on the myth of born that way to a fetish. Unfortunatly the lawyers who make up the judiciary are too stupid to know science. (or like in california may be homosexuals themselves)

[paudio]

Hawaii actually voted against gay marriage by agreeing that marriage is only between man and woman. Is there any state where the issue was brought to voter and the pro gay marriage won? IIRC those where gay marriage is legal were decided by the state courts.

[the invisib1e hand]

the race to the bottom continues.