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Court weighs overturning gay marriage bans in three southern states
Reuters ^ | 1/9/15 | BY JONATHAN KAMINSKY

Posted on 01/09/2015 3:56:15 PM PST by Oliviaforever

(Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday appeared receptive to arguments in favor of striking down same-sex marriage bans in the conservative southern states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Two of three judges on a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in New Orleans expressed skepticism over the bans, with Judge Patrick Higginbotham noting a "sea change" on opinion over gay rights in recent decades and questioning why states wanting to incentivize procreation would allow sterile opposite-sex couples but not same-sex couples to marry.

After it was noted that Mississippi was unlikely to change its position on gay marriage in the near future, Higginbotham, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, appeared to reference that state's history of racism.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; samesexmarriage
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1 posted on 01/09/2015 3:56:15 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

The gayification of the U.S. continues.....


2 posted on 01/09/2015 4:00:09 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Oliviaforever

So another wobbly Reagan appointee? What the hell?


3 posted on 01/09/2015 4:01:39 PM PST by MarkRegal05
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To: Oliviaforever

Terrorist Federal judges


4 posted on 01/09/2015 4:02:42 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Oliviaforever

So, as long as a group of people agree, it is ok to call anything a “marriage”?


5 posted on 01/09/2015 4:03:03 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Oliviaforever
Friggin' queers really pi$$ me off.
Next will be the lawsuits because, "Waaahh, that Christian won't bake me a cake, waaah!"
6 posted on 01/09/2015 4:03:14 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Oliviaforever
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Governors and state AGs should disregard all federal rulings until SCOTUS rules on the matter.

7 posted on 01/09/2015 4:03:48 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO PACK GO! GO PACK GO!)
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To: MarkRegal05

Higginbotham, Patrick Errol
Born 1938 in McCalla, AL

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Nominated by Gerald Ford on December 2, 1975, to a seat vacated by Sarah T. Hughes. Confirmed by the Senate on December 12, 1975, and received commission on December 12, 1975. Service terminated on August 3, 1982, due to appointment to another judicial position.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1982, to a seat vacated by Reynaldo Guerra Garza. Confirmed by the Senate on July 27, 1982, and received commission on July 30, 1982. Assumed senior status on August 28, 2006.

Education:
University of Alabama, B.A., 1960
University of Alabama School of Law, LL.B., 1961

Professional Career:
U.S. Air Force judge advocate, 1961-1964
Private practice, Dallas, Texas, 1964-1975
Adjunct professor of constitutional law, Southern Methodist University Law School, 1976


8 posted on 01/09/2015 4:07:37 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Oliviaforever

Well, it’s getting personal now, since it’s reaching my home state. In a way, ‘two’ home states of mine.

I would have preferred seeing America overrun and destroyed by either Nazis or Soviets than to have it end this way, actively embracing such degeneracy and evil.


9 posted on 01/09/2015 4:12:59 PM PST by greene66
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To: grobdriver

This is a lesson on how weak man is without the support of God. And the support of God can be either accepted or refused. Currently it is being refused, even by a lot of supposed believers.


10 posted on 01/09/2015 4:24:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: jsanders2001

It is all to destroy Christian Ethics and the ideology (Enlightenment and Modern Science and US Constitution) which it created.

Can’t have Lockean mindsets-—even a Rousseauian one-—where there is Design in Nature and Natural Laws and God’s Laws.

Remove God and you make our Natural Rights into irrational man-made-up ‘Rights”-—like to sodomize others to destroy Logic and Reason and Science (understanding of Natural Laws in children which is only done by being raised by a mother and father. All other type of ‘families” other than the Christian concept gives children a warped idea of Reality).

They have been conditioning children for 50 years into believing the unnatural and evil use of the human body is “Good”—that “family” can be “anyone’ someone “loves”-—without marriage or commitment -—to flip our Ethical system, because the Cultural Marxists in the 30s developed a curricula to “kill God” and destroy Virtue in children so culture collapses.

Without Virtue, civil society collapses. (Socrates). To destroy Virtue—it is easiest to normalize vile behaviors in the little children (through indoctrination in public schools (Common Core) and making them uncomfortable with Christian ideology and TV/Movies normalizes vile, evil behaviors and urges and give the perceptions that beautiful, smart people engage in evil behaviors all the time—it is normal-—like with the destruction of the Christian Family-—like in the boy harems of Afghanistan.

There is no chance that Afghanistan males will become mature masculine males (moral) when they are conditioned to lust after boys and other males and hate women. Neither is is possible that people who “think” it is moral to sodomize others (degrade human beings and reduce them to irrational animal) and remain “Good”. Nope-—they see other humans in an evil, demeaning irrational, vile way.

All behaviors are learned and modeled and the Marxists knew they had to destroy Reason and Faith in the children (John Dewey/Moral Relativism) and instill Evil is Good and flip the ideas which created the Age of Reason and the US Constitution and idea of “Justice”-—the Queen of Virtue which was based on Christian Ethics in the West and why the West was so successful, the most Free, the most diverse, and humane and Creative in the history of the World.

There is a reason why it was ONLY Christian Ethics which ended Slavery and Pederasty, Homosexuality, Polygamy and child-sacrifice in Western Civ and made it popular and Good. But it created Individualism-—and collectives have to destroy that concept in children-—Individual Natural Rights from God.


11 posted on 01/09/2015 4:33:02 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: savagesusie

How about that it’s of the devil: buggery is mean.

Believe it or not it is not about subchristian ideas.


12 posted on 01/09/2015 4:34:55 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Article 3 Section 2 US Constitution:
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make

Tell the court to go pound sand, File Criminal Charges, issue a Governors Warrant for Extradition, Begin Civil Asset Forfeiture proceedings. The only thing that can save them is a Presidential Pardon!!


13 posted on 01/09/2015 4:37:56 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Oliviaforever
and questioning why states wanting to incentivize procreation would allow sterile opposite-sex couples but not same-sex couples to marry.

It is a mercy shown to them by civil society and a recognition by the state that procreation is in God's hands and not man's.

Our society is suffused with a religion which believes that a very old Abraham and Sarah could have children if God so decided, and as a result of these long held beliefs by our society, our legal structure reflects that recognition of God's power over such matters.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? Lk. 1.37 At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

*THAT* is why you Arrogant and Stupid B@stards.

14 posted on 01/09/2015 5:13:35 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: Oliviaforever

They fall over themselves to show how much wiser they are than God.


15 posted on 01/09/2015 5:18:58 PM PST by madprof98
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To: jsanders2001

Allegedly the Authors Guild is spending its members money to promote gay marriage. Doesn’t make sense since this is not even remotely related to its goals.


16 posted on 01/09/2015 5:19:05 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Dante3

It’s the Big Fat Liberal Cause Du Jour.

The chaos this will court? “Not my problem, mon.”


17 posted on 01/09/2015 5:21:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: madprof98

That they don’t need this fuddy duddy ole Creator.


18 posted on 01/09/2015 5:22:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Sounds like the Feral fag “judges” aren’t done yet.


19 posted on 01/09/2015 5:23:57 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you don't want to be an American, get the $@!%# out of my country!)
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To: Oliviaforever
noting a "sea change" on opinion over gay rights....

Judge, if there is SUCH a sea change, then YOUR interference isn't needed.

In fact, the BULK of sea change has come NOT from voters but from judicial and political ELITES.

20 posted on 01/09/2015 5:49:51 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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