[Mechanicos]

Where does a federal court get jurisdiction over a state-licensed privilege? Marriage is no more a civil-rights issue then a drivers license is a civil-rights’ issue...

[wku man]

That is exactly how we need to frame it in our debates/arguments with the other side. Homo marriage isn't about civil rights...they already have the right to get married -- just find someone of the opposite sex and marry him or her. After all, that is what marriage has always meant in civilized Western society.

What they want is to redefine the word, and that's what we can't let them do.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[RIghtwardHo]

They get jurisdiction as Federal law is paramount and this was declared unconstitutional. (That is just an explanation and NOT an endorsement at ALL of the decision.)

I read a lot and there is a misconception that the 10th Amendment says State law is paramount. It isn’t. Only those laws “not enumerated” by the Constitution. And there are over 2 centuries of SCOTUS and State decisions even saying what those are. And it is pretty expansive.

And, again, I am not endorsing these decisions, just, as a retired Prosecutor, passing along an answer to the question.