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1996 marriage act called vulnerable
Washington Times ^ | 9/05/03 | Cheryl Wetzstein

Posted on 09/04/2003 10:50:37 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A federal law that defines traditional marriage is vulnerable to overturning by courts, two legal analysts yesterday told a Senate hearing.

Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings have found constitutional protections for same-sex relationships, Gregory S. Coleman, former solicitor general of Texas, told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and property rights.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doma; homosexualagenda; prisoners; samesexmarriage; senatehearings

1 posted on 09/04/2003 10:50:37 PM PDT by kattracks
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JESUS DEFINES MARRIAGE: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6

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2 posted on 09/04/2003 11:02:13 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: kattracks
This is exactly why President Bush can't get any judges in place!!!!
3 posted on 09/04/2003 11:13:32 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: kattracks
The Democrats say its a "non-existent" problem. Well if the Massachusetts or New Jersey Supreme Court uphold gay marriage, the Democrats will eat their own words!
5 posted on 09/04/2003 11:21:15 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Wolfgang_Blitzkrieg
The liberals HAVE ALREADY opened the gates of hell.
6 posted on 09/04/2003 11:41:58 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
>>>marriage between a man, a polar bear and three donkeys<<<

This particular situation would be self-correcting. Polar bears are very nasty and powerful creatures. Shortly, there would just be a very full polar bear and some bones.
7 posted on 09/05/2003 3:26:59 AM PDT by MalcolmS
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To: kattracks
The problem with DOMA (from the current, twisted, USSC view) is that the only criterion it specifies for marriage is that it is between a man and a woman.

This court will rule, as it did in the Colorado case, that this law is motivated by animus against homosexuals.

Which it is.

Traditional marriage has three elements:

1) It is permanent, and non-dissolvable except under extraordinary circumstances not directly under the control of the parties.

2) It is sexually exclusive, and violations are punishable by the criminal law.

3) It is between a man and a woman.

Numbers one and two are dictated by the created nature of men and women. The establishment of permanency and fidelity in law practically guarantees #3, since permanency and fidelity are the natural law accompaniments of heterosexual marriage.

Once the heterosexuals of this country eliminated #1 and #2 from the "definition of marriage", the question arose of whether such a minimalist concept of marriage (i.e., non-permanent, non-exclusive, but for males and females only) could survive.

It probably won't. But the destroyers of marriage are the straight male legislators who passed the 1969-73 marriage "reforms", not a few gays who have drawn the logical inferences.

8 posted on 09/05/2003 4:42:38 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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9 posted on 09/05/2003 7:42:42 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: Jim Noble
But the destroyers of marriage are the straight male legislators who passed the 1969-73 marriage "reforms", not a few gays who have drawn the logical inferences.

I concur. This is what I said just the other day regarding Lance Armstrong's divorce:


People suggest that allowing people of the same sex to marry would destroy the institution. I say, gay marriage would only be the final stage of destruction of the institution that began with the concept of no-fault divorce.

To wit: Once marriage [became] easier to legally escape than a health-club membership, the differences between marriage and shacking up began to evaporate. Now that people with normal sexual inclinations can shack up and get almost all the benefits of marriage, gays can say, "Hey, we shack up too!"



10 posted on 09/05/2003 12:53:15 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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