Five same-sex couples apply for marriage licenses in Mississippi

In Mississippi, five same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses on Tuesday, despite the fact that Mississippi has a constitutional ban. The Campaign for Southern Equality led the protest:

However, waving signs saying “We do,” the crowd on Tuesday joined hands for a prayer led by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, executive director of LGBT rights group Southern Equality. Then, the couples filed through metal detectors and into the courthouse.

Once inside, the five couples lined up to apply for their licenses two-by-two at the office of the county clerk. The clerk noted that the forms did not have blanks for two males and females, and asked instead which person would like to appear first on the marriage license.

The couples paid their fees and signed their receipts, then walked back out into the early spring sunshine.

“We hope to return soon,” one person told the Free Press. “Our love is not going to change.”

“We gather together to resist laws that we believe to be immoral and also unconstitutional,” said Beach-Ferrara.

The couples were allowed to have official copies of their receipts, though they’ll be turned down for licenses. Mississippi is one of the last remaining states with no lawsuit challenging the state’s same-sex marriage ban. A same-sex couple’s divorce was denied by a state judge in 2013 because the state doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

They do that in order to sue. They know what they are doing.

BTW, now that there are 50 “genders” how do you define “same sex” marriage? There are more combinations possible now. I’m not sure of the math, but it looks like 2500 combinations.

If TransWoman wants to marry androgynous, is that same-sex or what?

“The Campaign for Southern Equality” cannot ever achieve equality. Lincoln wisely said that you stand a black man next to a white man and you can see they are distinctly different. But put a dog up there and you can see the black man and white man are the same.

Put a married man and a woman next to two homosexuals and you can never make them equal.

The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights, such “rights” now wrongly being legislated from the bench by pro-gay activist judges using PC interpretations of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause. So Jasmine Beach-Ferrara needs to do the following if she is really sincere about protecting gay rights within the framework of the Constitution.

Ms Beach-Ferrara needs to work with state and federal lawmakers to propose a gay rights amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify Ms Beach-Ferrara's amendment, then gay rights will be constitutionally enumerated and Ms Beach-Ferrara will be a hero.

Regarding PC interpretations of the Equal Protections Clause, please consider the following. Virginia Minor had argued that her citizenship gave her the right to vote despite being a woman because of the Equal Protections Clause.

However ...

The Supreme Court decided against her claim in Minor v. Happersett, officially clarifying that 14th Amendment did not add any new rights to the Constitution regardless of the Equal Protections Clause.

3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had (emphasis added)." --Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

(The 19th Amendment was later ratified to the Constitution, prohibiting voting discrimination based on sex.)

As a hypothetical example of the bona-fide application of the Equal Protections Clause imo, states which allowed only men to vote couldn't prevent Irish Catholic men from voting.

Re: gender

No one seems to remember that “gender” is simply a grammatical term classifying words as “male,” “female” or “neuter.” The homofascists have hijacked the grammatical term “gender” to use it as a bastardized replacement for the word “sex,” which they KNOW only means “male” or “female.” Thus, “gender” has become a highly malleable, propaganda word of the Left that is widely used and accepted by those on both sides who don’t even remember its true definition or understand why the Left even uses it to their diabolical advantage.

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