Posted on 05/20/2014 12:30:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A federal judge Tuesday struck down Pennsylvania's law prohibiting same-sex marriage, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution.
With the ruling, the Keystone State joins a host of others in which judges have struck down existing laws restricting marriage to between one man and one woman. All such decisions have been stayed, pending appeals.
"Because these laws are unconstitutional, we shall enter an order permanently enjoining their enforcement," U.S. District Judge John E. Jones wrote of Pennsylvania's same-sex marriage restrictions. "By virtue of this ruling, same-sex couples who seek to marry in Pennsylvania may do so, and already married same-sex couples will be recognized as such in the Commonwealth."
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The ruling (http://coop.pamd.uscourts.gov/13-1861.pdf) says there is a fundamental right to marry from Planned Barrenhood v Casey, and 'the promotion of procreation, child-rearing and the well-being of children' are not '“important” state interests'.
And it has some of the most blatant soapboxing I've ever seen in a ruling. The judge must be planning to run for legislative office - or retire to a cushy advisory position with a left-wing 'think' tank.
Yeah. Thanks George...again.
Another country club liberal.
Gee, and here I thought that a Free Society would have the right to make those very things important for the continuity and stability of their society
Silly Me
Where in the Constitution is the guarantee of a marriage between two homosexuals? I’ve read the Constitution in and out and have not found it. I’m being facitious, obviously. Everybody has a right to marriage in the traditional sense, a sense that everyone understands, a man and a woman for the purpose of raising a family. Nowhere does the Constitution guarantee the right to perverse sexual encounters. These judges are as perverse as the clowns who files suit!
The ruling (http://coop.pamd.uscourts.gov/13-1861.pdf) says there is a fundamental right to marry from Planned Barrenhood v Casey, and ‘the promotion of procreation, child-rearing and the well-being of children’ are not ‘“important” state interests’.
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No, what the court said was: “Significantly, Defendants claim only that the objectives are ‘legitimate,’ advancing no argument that the interests are ‘important’ state interests as required to withstand heightened scrutiny.”
So, in other words, Pennsylvania screwed up.
I wish we could have an election to opt-out of the country formerly known as America. I'd vote for it in an instant.
In my mind...not even close. George W did more to hurt the Republican party than O has. If anything, O is doing more to move the dial to the right. Folks are flat tired of all this BS.
Tired....and maybe....they will get off their duffs and vote.
Well, one can hope.
“Gross”
Sad and predictable, the nation needs repentance.
“Sharia law vs. gay marriage.”
Neither will win. Praise be to GOD.
what happens when two brothers decide to get "married"...or a daddy and a dtr?...or a mommy and her sonny?...or maybe if daddy, dtr and cousin Sally decide to all get married.....
no one can answer these questions....
we've turned into Sodom and Gomorrah with our worship of pleasure at the expense of rules,morals,sensibility, and even nature.....
Amen!
Those of you with a legal background: have you actually read some of these rulings? They are striking. If you thought they were just making stuff up with Roe and Griswold, take a look at some of these recent ones. There is no “law”, there is only power. Winning the Senate and even the White House isn’t going to fix this. Things might have to collapse before they get better.
I would love to hear just when the hell some federal court actually DOES rule on some issue in favor of actually following the Constitution. I’m pretty damn sick of these jerks finding all this stuff in there that was never there.
That’s not going to happen as long as 95 percent of current Republican elected officials are in office.
It’s a terrible damn problem, since even the Republican Party depends heavily on mega business donors, and such donors, even if not queer themselves, are preponderantly pro-queer. The big money on Wall Street tends to back same-sex “marriage,” as do Charles and David Koch.
Damn shame, since had it been left to Pennsylvanians to decide through elections and the state legislature, no doubt they’d have held off queer marriage a good long time. Even a good number of small town and rural Democrats in Pennsylvania are pretty conservative on social issues, and the queering of America isn’t on their agenda.
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