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Justice Dept. latest to apply privileges, protections for same-sex spouses (all 50 states)
Foxnews ^

Posted on 02/08/2014 3:21:55 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday that the Justice Department will now follow a landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex spouses, which means they will no longer be compelled to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases.

The policy changes mean same-sex spouses also should be eligible to file jointly for bankruptcy and have the same rights and privileges in federal prison as inmates in heterosexual marriages.

Prosecutors have used various legal challenges against the spousal privilege. But Holder made clear the federal government will no longer make such challenges, even in states where same-sex marriages are not recognized.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; ericholder; homosexualagenda; liberalagenda; obamacare; ssm; zerocare
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is what it was all about from the git-go


21 posted on 02/08/2014 7:21:19 PM PST by Hurricane
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To: Hurricane

Gosh, these people are small. So little depth.


22 posted on 02/08/2014 8:34:34 PM PST by FreeperCell
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To: Red in Blue PA

Funny. I thought fags already got “married” in prison


23 posted on 02/08/2014 8:54:36 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Down the same rat hole as freedom of association.


24 posted on 02/08/2014 9:17:42 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Hey, now Holder and Obama can’t testify against each other.

Who’d a thunk?


25 posted on 02/09/2014 12:50:44 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: All

I bet there were a lot of kilts at that event.. (easy access and all)


26 posted on 02/09/2014 6:04:34 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

There is a segment in America that wants our firearms, with a history of pushing immigration and open borders, and through other divisive policies.

These policies coincidentally are always intended to elevate the rights of minorities, while eliciting public opinion against and removing political power of the Christian majority. They’ve made it their mission to divide the people and keep them infighting much as predators divide the herd..

Americans need to be wary of this purposeful intent to divide us culturally and politically. Disunity and Balkanization always works against the people and for those with an inclination to throw a match into a tinder box as has happened in other countries.

The media and others have made it their goal to keep the sheep at each others throats with such policies. Then they’ll use the out roar to attack some as evil and intolerant. Americans are being played in an effort to divide us.


27 posted on 02/09/2014 8:01:21 AM PST by apoliticalone
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To: Red in Blue PA

The Federal Government does not have the right to make this determination...that is reserved to the states.

Which Republicans will stand up and DO something about this?


28 posted on 02/09/2014 10:24:19 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Red in Blue PA
The war on Christianity continues, and it's WORLDWIDE. Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, helping Al Qaeda kill Christians in Syria, aiding and abetting a nuclear Iran, promoting dope smoking and same sex marriage in the United States...

The female voter of America is largely responsible for this. Who do you think Nancy Pelosi, Sandra Fluke, Holder and Obama are speaking to? It's surely NOT American men. It's females and homosexuals!

Sandra Fluke made the females cry, and the female voter of America blindly cast her vote for four more years of attacks on America. Thanks, idiots.

29 posted on 02/09/2014 10:35:29 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: nothingnew

Revolt is coming.


30 posted on 02/09/2014 10:43:12 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Red in Blue PA

administration is obsessed with homosexuals


31 posted on 02/09/2014 1:09:00 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Alter Kaker
There is a difference between federal law(s) and those from the states. How you might ask?, and thus I shall answer for you. Laws in states conferring the rights to use drugs such as Weed (Washington, Colorado, and immanent in Alaska) will result in those exercising this right to be denied security clearances by the Federal Government. The Federal Government can also confer a law onto a State, but the mechanism for enforcement is almost always, always and if not always, usually, by attaching its enforcement monies already given to the States under a prior program and that program's Federal monies pulled or taken away if compliance at the state level is not grandfathered into prior acceptance (See Title X, the schools, etc.).

Simply mandating at the Federal Level a right does not make it law if it conflicts with the State's law(s), however, your point that it creates a grey area whereas the uneducated and militant left are concerned does make it a force to be reckoned with in the future.

32 posted on 02/09/2014 4:40:02 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Red in Blue PA

So the terrorists’ attorney is doing executive orders now too. Disband the government and let the successions begin.


33 posted on 02/09/2014 4:47:15 PM PST by floriduh voter (Jackwagons of the United States You Have Wrecked My Country)
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To: floriduh voter

secessions? spelling correction.


34 posted on 02/09/2014 4:48:51 PM PST by floriduh voter (Jackwagons of the United States You Have Wrecked My Country)
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To: Red in Blue PA

- avoid all taxes

- barter

- avoid all paperwork

- cut all personnel to the bone

- call it a hobby

- defund the corrupt bastard


35 posted on 02/09/2014 7:55:48 PM PST by devolve ("He's just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." "Barry of Bungle" "Homo Electus")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yup. Force their beliefs on us. It is okay for them to believe like they want to believe. But, we of course, cannot not. If we believe differently than the homo lovers, the liberals, the communists, the socialists, etc., we are haters. I am a hater. The hater of the sin of homosexuality. I don’t hate the person. I pray for his/her repentance. But, we are the haters. Because we refuse to believe as they do. It is coming where we are going to jail for our beliefs. Are you prepared to go to jail for what you believe? Are you prepared to have the government confiscate everything you own because of how you think and believe? Do you have a government check of any kind? I do. I have social security. I have a retired military check. The government will decide they are taking those away from me eventually because I refuse to believe as they do. Those days are coming men and women. You might want to start thinking just how you are going to decide when the GOVERNMENT puts you up on the stand and says, “how do you think?” Its coming. COUNT ON IT.


36 posted on 02/11/2014 11:37:42 AM PST by RetiredArmy (All that call upon His name shall be saved! HE is the ONLY way to heaven. Only HIM!!)
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To: Alter Kaker
Once persons have rights, it's much, much harder to take them away legally.

True, but please put "rights" in parentheses in this context. You aren't given true rights; they're yours anyway.

Even if a federal marriage amendment were passed and enacted, it is highly unlikely that the sodomites which have appropriated "marriage" would be undone. If fact, there would be a rush to inundate the system with frivolous "Marriages" before the amendment was effective, just out of spite.

37 posted on 02/11/2014 1:12:46 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: 1010RD

we wouldn’t have Holder if we did what was right and voted in Mitt....but no, some people are just so much smarter and think they know best and the voted in bammmey again.....so now we all suffer for their stupidity and arrogance...


38 posted on 02/11/2014 6:18:18 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Obama’s really trying to cripple this country. The nuclear family buttressed by individual rights is the bedrock of American exceptionalism.


39 posted on 02/11/2014 6:24:15 PM PST by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: cherry

I don’t get it either. Christians shouldn’t ever say, “Come on in Devil!”


40 posted on 02/11/2014 7:00:07 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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