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BREAKING: Second Circuit Court Finds Section 3 Of DOMA Unconstitutional
towleroad.com/ ^ | 10/18/2012 | n/a

Posted on 10/18/2012 9:09:23 AM PDT by massmike

We have some breaking news out of New York: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled on Windsor v. the United States, a case challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, and found a federal definition of marriage as one man and one woman violates the U.S. Constitution.

"[W]e conclude that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act violates equal protection and is therefore unconstitutional," they wrote.

Our legal eagle Ari Ezra Waldman will have a full analysis soon.

(Excerpt) Read more at towleroad.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; doma; homonaziagenda; homonazimarriage; homonazism; homosexualagenda; judicialtyranny; lawsuit; liberalfascism; liberals; moralabsolutes; progressives; ruling
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To: massmike

Thank you. The WSJ is a tad more family friendly!


41 posted on 10/18/2012 9:37:05 AM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: re_nortex

We should start out by building a list of their females to see if any of them are suitable for our anthro-harem purposes. If judges can so easily dismiss the current bio-based sexual pairing system then they can easily accept the reinstatement of the earlier system ~ and their own spawn should be brought into the practice as soon as possible.


42 posted on 10/18/2012 9:37:51 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: massmike

These activist judges need to be recalled.


43 posted on 10/18/2012 9:38:23 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Westbrook

Whatever Romney wanted to do, the fact is this will come to one of two conclusions. Either the USSC will affirm DOMA or it will be made into an Amendment. When you have a majority of Californians voting for this, it’s not a contest.


44 posted on 10/18/2012 9:39:56 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: drinktheobamakoolaid

Imagine the size of the koi pond Bill Gates would need to reduce his tax liability to zero.


45 posted on 10/18/2012 9:39:56 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Venturer

No one really knows if 47% don’t pay taxes ~ since even new born babies get tagged with taxes it would be hard to slip that noose.


46 posted on 10/18/2012 9:40:56 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: American Constitutionalist

And who will they vote for? A guy from a polygamous background, or another guy from a polygamous background?


47 posted on 10/18/2012 9:42:03 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: massmike

Another chance to take a roll call of the liberal SCOTUS justices coming up!


48 posted on 10/18/2012 9:42:57 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Westbrook

Romney instituted gay marriage in MA ~ that’s what he did. Starts with him.


49 posted on 10/18/2012 9:43:13 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Isn’t it obvious that if mankind truly “evolved” from random mutations that somehow exquisitely perfected us into what we are, homosexuality would long ago have been culled out of the human genome?

HELLO??


50 posted on 10/18/2012 9:43:16 AM PDT by Elpasser
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To: LS

> USSC will affirm DOMA

Given the pass that 0bamao-care got from the USSC, there’s an even chance that it will strike down DOMA.

> it will be made into an Amendment.

Not likely. You need two-thirds of both houses of congress, plus two-thirds of both houses of two-thirds of the states to amend the constitution.


51 posted on 10/18/2012 9:45:02 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Elpasser
Homosexuality depends entirely on epigenetics ~ else there'd be a 'gay gene' which there isn't.

That means it's entirely probable we'll shortly develop a pill that can be given to chilluns' as they reach puberty to RESET THEM.

Currently the number of gays is probably nearer .2% than any higher number.

52 posted on 10/18/2012 9:47:08 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Friendofgeorge

Those that vote Democrat in any way shape or form, are spitting on Him

Interesting take. I wonder. Did all the people in Germany who voted for Hitler go to Hell? I wonder....


53 posted on 10/18/2012 9:48:10 AM PDT by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: Westbrook

“The politicians on Beacon Hill would not allow the referendum to come to a vote in the Mass Senate”

Patrick was governor by then. Just barely, but he was the gov.
The politicians on Beacon Hill violated the Massachusetts Constitution by not allowing us to vote. Never in the history of my state had so many signatures been gathered on an issue.


54 posted on 10/18/2012 9:49:16 AM PDT by warsaw44
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Section 2. Powers reserved to the states
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.

Section 3. Definition of marriage
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.


55 posted on 10/18/2012 9:49:39 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (campaigning for local conservatives)
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To: massmike
If the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause applies to an individual's 'right' to marry irregardless of sex, then the IRS tax code should apply to the individual's tax rate irregardless of income.

Also, the Lilly Ledbetter act and the Civil Rights Act are also unconstitutional.

56 posted on 10/18/2012 9:50:16 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: xzins
This was bound to happen once Gov’t became part of marriage. They will usurp churches and other religious organizations so that they ‘recognize’ these gays instead of following their own religion.
57 posted on 10/18/2012 9:50:58 AM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: massmike

good news...let’s get this part of the campaign before we have the minority on this issue.


58 posted on 10/18/2012 9:51:02 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: muawiyah
So 9 million years of evolution is not good enough for the Second Circuit?

What's that got to do with the package of legal rights and responsibilities conferred on pairs of individuals by government? As soon as term "marriage" was conceded to government control the argument was inevitably lost.

59 posted on 10/18/2012 9:51:46 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
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To: Westbrook
"You need two-thirds of both houses of congress, plus two-thirds of both houses of two-thirds of the states to amend the constitution."

Yep. And it won't even be close. This would pass faster than a pig through a boa constrictor.

60 posted on 10/18/2012 9:52:41 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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