Posted on 04/03/2009 9:57:39 AM PDT by Drew McKissick
Judges are going to be the cultural death of this country. Or at least they'll be its handmaiden.
Just this morning, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state's law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional. They have just thrown the will of the people of the state of Iowa under the bus, placing themselves above the people.
Iowa became the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriage on Friday, after the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously decided that a 1998 law limiting marriage to a man and a woman was unconstitutional.
The decision was the culmination of a four-year legal battle that began in the lower courts. The Supreme Court said same-sex marriages could begin in Iowa in as soon as 21 days. ...“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision. ...
And since Iowa has no residency requirement for marriage licenses, this opens the door for the gay marriage crowd to use Iowa as a springboard to challenge marriage laws (and amendments) in other states - ultimately in federal court.
Now you know why so many states, (over 30 and counting), have passed actual state constitutional amendments.
And why we need a federal marriage amendment as well.
And that's why our members of Congress need to hear from us.
TAKE ACTION: Click here and contact your members of Congress today and let them know how you feel.
Impeach the tyrant judges.
Iowa of all places.
That is all.
they said that the law is unconstitutional
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so does this mean now homo’s can get married right away or can an appeal go in and why are people not demonstrating up there about this and why not get the constitution changed like we have down here in FL
for any homo’s thinking they are married, YOU ARE NOT
I am not religious either so cut the crap about me being a religious person.
You are sick and have a perverted sick mind which needs to be addressed
Yep. 1000 years from now, historians will discuss the Decline and Fall of America. I believe they will look back to Marbury v. Madison as when the courts began to steer the whole thing into the ground.
When are we, as a nation, going to stand up and say ENOUGH?
Judges have NO right to overturn the voter’s decisions.
I ask you all to consider why gays agitate for the “right” to marry....
Hint: It’s the financial benefits of marriage that are conferred by the state when they license the union.
If you really want to end this agitation for gay marriage, you have to remove the invidious discrimination against gays in things like taxation and socialist insecurity benefits.
It’s that simple.
They agitate for the their right to “marry” because they want to destroy the traditional family and all that it represents.
They don’t want any healthy normal behavior going on. It bothers them.
Have you ever talked to a gay person?
They could care less what goes on in your bedroom.
They want the right to devise their property to their significant other, free of taxation.
I just did an inheritance tax return for a woman who was living in a “non-traditional” relationship. Because she had the audacity to die while not “married” in the eyes of the state, the state confiscated $150k and allowed her to convey the remainder to her significant other.
If they had been married in the eyes of the state, the tax burden would have been ZERO.
Tell me again what is driving this push for gay “marriage.”
We don't need no stinkin' amendments... we will overrule them because we are untouchable and we know what's best for you whether you like it or not.
Well, I don't like it. I'm sick of it. And I'm not going to take it anymore. IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH.
The people of Iowa are as opposed to gay marriage by huge margins. That makes this decision even more tyrannical. It's the judges in question lost their jobs and the Democratic party in that state paid the price.
Have I ever talked to a gay person?
I work for gay people.
I live in SF.
I have had violent protestors at my church several times over the past 20 years. I have had agitators in the church.
I know ALL ABOUT the WHOLE AGENDA.
Me thinks you are at the wrong website. Take your gaymarriage-loving views and preach them to the subhumans over at DU. You might get some respect from them.
This idiocy also creates an open path for people to marry their children, their siblings, their dogs or other livestock, or as many “partners” as they want.
To anybody who disagrees, I say “Why not ?”
The cancer has spread to the point where seccession may be a prescient topic for today. The malevalent judges are EVERYWHERE! So just voting a couple of politicians isn’t going to fix the ubuquitous rot of our schools and culture. We got problems, baby! As for myself, I think I’m going to just mellow out a little.
I don't see a problem with that - that's just. Let's get rid of ALL inheritance taxes.
Also, no hospital should be allowed to keep a "significant other" from a sizk person.
There are many changes that I'd agree wholeheartedly to.
Redefining marriage is NOT one of them.
I don’t approve of the behavior and it runs counter to my religious views. I do tax returns for a living and I can tell you the gays for whom I do tax returns have no interest in anything other than equalizing the tax and social security treatment.
And under current law, that requires a marriage license.
I agree.
If we want to end this agitation for gay marriage, the state should 1. Stop taxing inheritances. 2. Stop awarding socialist insecurity benefits on the basis of marital status.
Then the agitation for gay marriage will evaporate.
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