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Texas' ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional
Houston Chronicle ^ | 2-26-2014

Posted on 02/26/2014 11:34:21 AM PST by Snickering Hound

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To: Viennacon
... and all the damn libs in San Antonio need to be arrested.

OK, please start with our teenaged Marxist mayor. Those of us in San Antonio would be ever so grateful.

21 posted on 02/26/2014 11:47:18 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Snickering Hound

Not sure how the current state of things can last for long. It has been moving with great speed even as we speak.

I think we’ll probably need a NATIONAL REFERENDUM to DEFINE WHAT MARRIAGE IS in our constitution.

It’s going to be very hard to exist with some states recognizing some marriages and others not.


22 posted on 02/26/2014 11:47:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Ancesthntr

Julian “the fey one” Castrato


23 posted on 02/26/2014 11:49:52 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: frogjerk
Just wait...

24 posted on 02/26/2014 11:50:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: GeronL

You are correct regarding the Supreme Court ruling. However the liberals were not happy with that outcome. So they have been suing states in federal court since then over their definitions of marriage.

Mainstream liberal thought nowadays is that it is just like racial discrimination and the old Jim Crow laws to not allow homosecual marriage. That’s quite a stretch in my opinion, but that’s where mainstream liberal legal opinions are nowadays.

Even though this whole subject of “sexual orientation” or “sexual identity” is not a protected class under federal civil rights laws, liberal judges are issuing rulings as if homosexuals are a protected class under those laws. They decided that homosexuality is a minority group.


25 posted on 02/26/2014 11:51:08 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (TH!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Not sure how the current state of things can last for long.

That's why I fully expect the SCOTUS to do another Roe v. Wade on this issue. My only real doubt is how soon.

26 posted on 02/26/2014 11:53:00 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Viennacon

I live in Texas. And I predict that Texas will ignore any queer marriage rulings. Our Attorney General - soon to be Governor Gregg Abott has made traditional marriage a main plank of his carreer. And the new elected A/G (Paxton or Branch) have already made campaign promises to keep Texas straight.

Sure, we have liberal politicians like the Castro brothers and Abortion Barbie. But they are useless and actually provide amusement for us with their stupid antics.


27 posted on 02/26/2014 11:53:56 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Snickering Hound

“Orlando Garcia, a Clinton appointed Federal Judge...”

Orlando?

With Clinton already advocating Gay Marriage, I am not quite sure any of his judicial appointments should be making decisions on the issue.


28 posted on 02/26/2014 11:53:57 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: GeronL

Eventually there will be heretofore unimaginable forms of “marriage” allowed. We are at the top of a very slippery slope.


29 posted on 02/26/2014 11:54:52 AM PST by Starboard
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To: GeronL

Exactly.


30 posted on 02/26/2014 11:55:51 AM PST by matt04
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To: Army Air Corps; Ancesthntr
Mayor Castro. Just another fabulous blonde.


31 posted on 02/26/2014 11:56:38 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Viennacon

“Texas needs to secede.”

Texas sends more in taxes to the fed.gov than it receives.

We have more than enough income from oil and gas than we need (and it is expanding at a rapid rate and will continue to do so for quite a while).

We have ample agriculture, so we can feed ourselves...plus we have a bunch of fishing off the coast and in our many lakes.

We certainly can defend ourselves - the federal equipment that our taxes paid for would be perfectly adequate. We can build nukes at the Pantex plant, rockets to sit them on in Houston, and have at least 50 million guns (and people who know how to use them).

We can thus feed and take care of ourselves, and have shown an ability to do just that for well over 175 years. Frankly, I don’t know why we remain in the decaying and disintegrating Union. I’m sure that several of the surrounding states would join us - heck, we’d make a pretty good-sized country, one with traditional American values that would prosper and grow mighty, while Lieberal-land on the coasts and the upper Midwest would continue to sink into the muck and mire.


32 posted on 02/26/2014 11:56:38 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: GeronL
> I thought SCOTUS ruled this a state matter when it came to DOMA, federal judges are not states.
>
> Ignore it.

The SCOTUS also denied standing to the people of CA for a suit forcing their state-officers from abiding by the Prop 8 Amendment -- even though the CA Supreme Court certified their standing in the absence of the State's prosecutor taking up the case. In so doing, the USSC told the people that it is not a State matter.

So it very much seems that whether it's a State issue or not depends on if it's in line with their opinion.

33 posted on 02/26/2014 11:57:05 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“I live in Texas. And I predict that Texas will ignore any queer marriage rulings. Our Attorney General - soon to be Governor Gregg Abott has made traditional marriage a main plank of his carreer. And the new elected A/G (Paxton or Branch) have already made campaign promises to keep Texas straight.”

I would hope so, but at worse, gay marriages would only be conducted by Justices of the Peace in Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, El Paso, Austin and San Antonio and the entire rest of the state would not have to deal with Gay Marriage.


34 posted on 02/26/2014 11:57:32 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Ancesthntr

The only stick in the mud for a full conservative/libtard divide is Colorado. The west can be called the Esperanto Republic and the east can be called the United Socialist States of America.


35 posted on 02/26/2014 12:00:21 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Snickering Hound

“As in the Days of Noah”


36 posted on 02/26/2014 12:00:22 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Responsibility2nd

I live in Texas.

****
Lucky you. I unfortunately live in a perma-blue state with the usual assortment of liberal-inflicted problems. I had the good fortune to go to Texas on several business trips and always enjoyed the state and its friendly people. You’re living in the right place. :)


37 posted on 02/26/2014 12:00:26 PM PST by Starboard
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

That will be all of the states’ undoing


38 posted on 02/26/2014 12:00:57 PM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Jim Robinson; Snickering Hound

There is nothing unconstitutional about the amendment in Texas, or anywhere else for that matter.


39 posted on 02/26/2014 12:01:19 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: Army Air Corps

Julian, the La Raza narco-terrorist more like. Needs to be deported to a Cartel compound.


40 posted on 02/26/2014 12:01:58 PM PST by Viennacon
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