Gay couple files federal lawsuit attacking SC’s Defense of Marriage Law

Charlotte Observer ^ | Sep 1, 2013 | John Monk

[Ransomed]

My insight is that if the trend concerning the state amendments continues, federal law concerning ‘gay marriage’ will become a moot point as those states that passed marriage amendments repeal them with popular votes. That’s if judges don’t cut out the middle men in the meantime.

The states that only passed their amendments in the low 50% ranges in the middle of the last decade are probably repealable now. The majority, the ones that passed theirs by much more, will take longer. But in in 20 years? 30 years? I can’t see many of them still being there.

Freegards

[MarkRegal05]

Realistically, I think we’ve lost this issue. The left and the homosexualists have been on offense, backed-up by entertainment and academic reinforcements, to the point where we’ve lost young people. The GOP and its allies have been too placid, too silent, even complicit. At this point, it seems like the GOP just wants this issue to go away.

My younger nieces and nephews group me in with racists from generations past, looking at me like I’m a cultural or religious relic. They were brought-up in pretty religious/traditional households, but they all claim to have “gay” friends that have supposedly changed their outlook on these issues.

Honestly, it’s depressing how they’ve let emotion overrule the plainly-stated word of God. They’ll claim that straight people have no high ground from which to judge.. or that they don’t take every word of the Bible literally.. or that as soon as I cite the Bible, my civil legal argument is weakened..

I’ll ask them where the right to marriage is in the Constitution, and they’ll say there’s no such thing, but that there’s a right to “equal protection,” despite knowing the original circumstances and intent of the amendment’s authors. We’ve had these arguments repeatedly to the point where I can predict their arguments, and they can predict mine. The homosexualists have done a damn good job with spreading their talking points.

But as hopeless as it might seem, I won’t stop fighting. It’ll never be truly equal, and deep down, they know it.

[packrat35]

That would have been my last day in that church.

Stand up for what you believe. It is why I quit going to mainsteam churches.

[fwdude]

This lawsuit should be laughed at and tossed out of court in seconds. If the plaintiffs are citing DOMA that SCOTUS struck down, it doesn’t apply to SC’s law.

All sane, honest people know what the Windsor decision found. But it will be stretched, contorted, and misconstrued, effectively so, to mean that ALL of DOMA is invalid. And there will be enough Marxist judges out there to agree with the sodomites to at least tie this up in court for years, and, if homObama gets to replace a Constitutional Supreme Court justice, eventually upheld to our complete ruin. We will then be the Unified State of AmeriKa, all state laws having been invalidated.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I’ve attended three churches this year, trying to find one that worked for me. Looks like I’m off to number four.”

Try one that still believes sin is sin.

[DoughtyOne]

Sin? What’s that?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

“All sane, honest people know what the Windsor decision found. But it will be stretched, contorted, and misconstrued, effectively so, to mean that ALL of DOMA is invalid. “

Problem is, the majority decision in Windsor gave same-sex-”marriage” proponents all of the ammo to argue that all of DOMA (and, indeed, all state bans) should be held invalid. As I read it, Windsor was very much a ‘stepping stone’ case leading up to the eventual case that extends same-sex-” marriage” everywhere.

[gidget7]

My hope and my faith is in God, not in ANY man, or group of men. Certainly not in govt! I pray you are wrong, and that more and more people will see the light, as they witness for themselves, darkness being led by the administration in charge now. A lot have recognized it, I pray MANY MANY more will.