[Kryptonite]

Boy are you off base.

The Lawrence decision determined that a state cannot criminalize sodomy. That's all - it didn't create some federal right to be homosexual.

You're just as bad of a nutcase as these judges if you believe same sex marriage is now protected, based on Lawrence.

If a state wants to define marriage as between one man and one woman, there is no Constitutional prohibition against doing so. There's gonna be an absolute uproar in Nebraska over this turd's ruling.

[goldstategop]

This decision is an offshoot of Lawrence. All laws that constrain homosexual conduct are constitutionally infirm, including laws that ban same sex marriage. If homosexual behavior's legal, you can't argue gays and lesbians have no right to be married like straight sex couples are. Otherwise its bigotry and discrimination. That was what the Massachusetts Supreme Court concluded last year and a California State Superior Judge decided a few months ago. It was simply a matter of time before a federal judge saw it the same way. Again, here we are now.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)