Posted on 08/23/2013 8:48:01 PM PDT by CedarDave
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico district judge has ordered the Santa Fe County clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, just two days after a another county clerk in the state decided to start issuing gay marriage licenses.
The order mandates that Santa Fe County Clerk Geraldine Salazar issue the marriage licenses or appear in court to tell the judge why that shouldn't happen.
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Waiting for gay illegal immigrants with a legally issued NM driver’s license to apply legally for a marriage license. That is the height of insult to law-abiding Bible-believing citizens.
Does Susannah Martinez have any comment to make on this?
What’s the matter with the Cactus State? To the west is Goldwater country, to the east is Ted Cruz country, and to the north is the “red” part of Colorado.
Although activist judges evidently think that they are lawmakers, judges do not have legislative powers. So what does NM law say about gay marriage?
Does Susannah Martinez have any comment to make on this?
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I saw the news coverage of the county clerk that started doing this 2 days ago, but cannot find the Governor’s statement. She gave a press conference and said in her mind marriage is still between a man and a woman...forget what else was said. But she is standing firm on that.
Governor Martinez is opposed to gay marriage - “Marriage is between a man and a woman.” She says the legislature should address the issue by putting a constitutional amendment on the next general election ballot for the voters to decide (amendments proposed to the NM constitution must first be approved by the legislature).
Opposition is arising - 29 Republican legislators are preparing a court petition to state courts to stop the issuing of licenses until the legality of doing so is decided. The problem is that the 1912 NM constitution says marriage is between two persons. Back then it obviously meant a man and a woman - now, however, its meaning is challenged as ambiguous.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he will not challenge a move by the Dona Ana County clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
This is a short clip out of the article, but captures the essence of what the Attorney General Gary King had to say:
King told reporters Wednesday that he didn’t believe state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage were constitutional.
He also said he would not challenge any other county clerk who issued licenses.
Still, King warned that those marriages could be invalid if the state Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is not allowed in New Mexico.
See #7.
This is why states shouldn’t decide on marriage. What a cluster****.
website is pukingly disgusting. These are the militant boo foo ers that started all of this crap.
If it is the secular law and the clerk works in a secular court house then this is the proper thing to do.
Where it is problematic is forcing groups that do not approve of homosexuality to permit it in their gathering places. This is the real problem with the homosexual agenda is that the don’t just want to be left alone but to force everyone else to approve of their activities.
BTW I think homosexuality is a disgusting practice and it’s practitioners to be mentality ill but if this is the law there then so be it. If the clerk doesn’t like it then quit.
This would never have been an issue if the people in the mid to late 19th century had not let the State co-opt a religious sacrament. The state has no business sanctioning any marriage, period, full-stop.
I agree but it had the story so I used it.
The Homos who pushed for legalization of same sex marriage promised that they would never take their cause to the level of criminalizing behavior. We know this has been their agenda from the start. For this I will resist their phony equality movement. They are about totalitarianism. Screw them.
I’m waiting for the Supreme Court order that mandates all gay marriages will be supplied with a “gay kit” consisting of: K-Y jelly, a dildo, a butt plug, and pet gerbils.
Other “accessories” may be ordered from the local government store.
So how did a notion that a clerk (or even a judge) got into his head become "the law"??? I thought laws were passed by elected representatives, or is it now a hate crime to believe that too?
Just as I asked what law school New Mexico's judges got indoctrinated at, I'll ask the same about AG King. Beware of activist legal "experts" who say that something is constitutional or unconstitutional without mentioning the clause in the Constitution which substantiates their assertions.
The states are free to make laws which discriminate on any criterion not expressly protected by the Constitution. This is evidenced by the fact that the Supreme Court had decided in Minor v. Happersett that Virginia Minor couldn't vote because she was a woman regardless of the 14th Amendment.
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