Posted on 05/20/2014 8:30:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With a federal judge declaring a Pennsylvania ban on gay marriage unconstitutional on Tuesday afternoon, every state in the Northeastern corner of the countryMaine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and now Pennsylvaniahas legalized same-sex marriage.
Judge John Jones invoked the 14th Amendment to invalidate a 1996 Pennsylvania law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Like many of the other judicial decisions bringing down state marriage bans, this one framed the issue as a matter of civil rights.
Jones wrote:
In future generations the label same-sex marriage will be abandoned, to be replaced simply by marriage. We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.
A judge in Oregon issued a similar ruling just the day prior.
Pennsylvania State Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, refused to defend the law when it came to the court, but Republican Gov. Tom Corbett appointed a defense. Now, Time reports Corbett is likely to appeal the ruling. Jones is known as a political moderate (who according to the Washington Post was recommended by Rick Santorum), but in the past has sided against a mandate to have intelligent design taught in Pennsylvania schools.
The 19 states (in addition to the District of Columbia) with same-sex marriage now account for 44 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
1. I think in not-too-far-off future generations, same-sex couples will look at the marriage licenses and realize those were their death warrants they were signing. Oh, not from us. Despite what you probably think, not a lot of us roll that way. Our Muslim friends, or at least some of them? Not quite so scrupulous. Good luck.
2. Oh. You’re the guy who did the Kitzmiller case. Got your number. You’re not a judge. You’re a political hack in a robe. Pro tip: Memorable is not always good.
3. And finally, by the way, you discard things onto an ash heap, not into it, you poncy schoolboy.
The judge who overturned the ban here in Michigan is a Reagan appointee.
Man is trying to discard G-d into the ashbin of history, and that is not going to work out well for humanity.
They can legally pretend this is marriage, but I hope decent parents will educate their children to reject this immoral technique for spreading disease.
When all 50 states sign on, head for the hills & don’t look back!
I would remind you of the first commandment of Satanism: Everything is permissible.
The idiot secularists and nihilists will not and cannot see that they have opened the door to the beast.
Nothing stands in the way of societal annialation save the remnant of Christ's Church.
A few words that liberals have apropriated and perverted the meaning of:
Gay
Family
Marriage
War
Terrorism
Terrorist
Racist
Bigot
He’s paraphrasing Reagan.
Everyone who voted in and then out the prohibiton on alchohol.
He’s announced that he won’t appeal the ruling.
I guess that answers that question.
I’m marrying my parents and my sisters so that I can put them on my health plan and avoid taxes.
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