Posted on 12/07/2012 12:37:02 PM PST by Alter Kaker
Edited on 12/07/2012 12:46:28 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
This is pitting the 10th amendment against the 14th amendment, it seems to me.
The court, if it rules for the 10th amendment, will say that states can make their own rules.
If the court rules for the 14th, it will say “equal protection” means that, in their opinion, the practice of sodomy has nothing to do with what constitutes a marriage and if two practictioners of sodomy want to call their relationship a “marriage”, the state is obligated to grant their wishes, since the state also grants that wish to heterosexuals.
No, they can’t make it a right. Marriage isn’t a government right to begin with, just one they make you pay a fee for and get a permit. The prop 8 ruling should be reversed as the judge who overturned it had no business ruling on it in the first place. Federal courts should not be a place for intrastate matters. Regarding DOMA, it should be allowed to stand as all it does is protect states from being forced to recognized homosexual marriages. Then again, the SCOTUS was supposed to overturn Obamacare and we saw what happened there.
Count on John Roberts to sell the country down the river again.
Well it’s more than that. States argue that the Defense of Marriage Act is an intrusion into an area normally controlled by state law — I can very easily see the Court striking down most or all of DOMA. I don’t see them buying this claptrap about the equal protection clause and the removal of “rights” w/Prop 8. But I’ve been wrong before.
I think Kennedy would be more likely on this issue. Roberts is a statist, so will generally side with the government (which would mean Prop 8 and DOMA upheld), while Kennedy has more of a libertarian bent (which meant he voted to overturn ObamaCare).
We lose again, by now we should be Teachers on how to lose.
“Count on John Roberts to sell the country down the river again.”
I think this is very likely. He did pro bono work on the Roemer case—big homosexual rights case. I think we’re looking at a federal right to homosexual marriage, imposed by a supreme court headed by a Republican appointed justice.
Perhaps its an income tax.
Marriage is a contract between a man, a woman and God. I didn’t read about ‘Adam and Steve’ in the Bible! ‘Marriage’ is a club. If there are no limits, ‘marriage’ is meaningless.
Kennedy has always voted for equal protection. Gay marriage will be the law of the land by end of June. 5-4 or 6-3. No way of stopping it.
My GAYDAR goes off when I see pictures of Roberts. He’s a closet gay just like 0bama.
Just around the corner.....laws forcing pastors to marry same sex couples. Assuming the Court rules in favor of gays.
(gulp)
I really hate to see anything of importance going to the Supreme Court these days now that the court has three distinct factions: 4 liberals, 4 conservatives, and 1 moron.
Absolutely.
This is a big case with a huge risk.
If the Court rules against Prop 8 they could strike down all Pro Family-Anti Gay Marriage laws in the nation.
We would have been better off with the Justices refusing to hear the Prop 8 case and let the lower court ruling stand.
Excuse me, but how is this a “lose” at this point? The USSC MUST hear this case or the current position concocted by the 9th Circus, striking it down, prevails.
We really have no choice.
“Count on John Roberts to sell the country down the river again.”
Bingo! He’s probably making reservations for a long stay in his impregnable fortress as we speak.
I can remember a time when people who wanted to marry close cousins of the opposite sex were called white trash—we called them sick and made fun of them. Now, a lower class of white trash wants to marry other same-sex perverts, and we call them gay and are expected to honor them. Ask yourself, which is the sicker, trashier, and lower. I am reminded of the homosexual hillbillys in the movie Deliverance. The two homos would have had less than a full set of teeth between them. The marketing of deviance by homowood is most responsible.
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