Posted on 12/20/2013 2:03:01 PM PST by Oliviaforever
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge on Friday struck down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban, saying it was unconstitutional.
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Anti-miscegenation laws are bad policy, but there really isn’t anything in the constitution that forces states to grant legal recognition to particular marriages. The real problem were the laws that criminalized sex and cohabitation of mixed race couples.
Then Loving needs to be overturned. It was a faulty decision as well. It didn’t represent the will of the people.
Anti-miscegenation laws are bad policy, but there really isn’t anything in the constitution that forces states to grant legal recognition to particular marriages. The real problem were the laws that criminalized sex and cohabitation of mixed race couples.
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Fair enough. I just figure that when SCOTUS finally rules on it, I think it’ll essentially be a repeat of Loving v. Virginia.
Of course, that’s just my view, and trying to predict the SCOTUS? Heck, I’d have better luck predicting a Megamillions jackpot.
As wishy-washy as the Mormons have become on this issue, I don’t really expect them to set off the necessary civil war. It will take some screwball black-robed tyrant telling Texas that it must sodomize marriage before something substantial is likely initiated.
True. Homosexual marriage is just one of many facets in the general moral rot of this country. It is the moral rot that will destroy us (if we are to be destroyed), not homosexual marriage alone.
States Rights? The purpose of the States is to help divide up the work of administering the Federal Government’s edicts, plus the State names help the NSA keep track of what they’re spying on.
Unfortunately while we’re worried about State’s rights the Obama administration is working hard on yielding our national sovereignty to the United Nations through various treaties.
during the cold war the communists knew this and one only has to read their 1963 in how to destroy the USA
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Thats a direct result of the South losing the Civil war.
I'm straight and about as far "right" as imaginable.
Apparently, there’s no stay of the decision pending a possible appeal and the homos are already getting “marriage” licenses. According to the Salt Lake Tribune:
“In fact, there were reports Friday afternoon on social media that people were already headed to the Salt Lake County Clerk’s office...”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57291925-78/marriage-utah-laws-shelby.html.csp?page=2
At least Mormon Mitt’s happy, I’m sure, since he was such a big lover of the gays in Massachusetts
Polygamy has a long history, including many Biblical figures such as Abraham, Moses, Kings Saul, David, Solomon and many others as well as Simeon, Ezra and etc. Please show me one place before the modern era that same sex marriage was practiced widely.
Pray for America is all I can say.
Not so sure.
Kennedy, a libertarian, seemed to think it was a States' issue.
The unelected MEN IN BLACK are welcoming us all to reside in the city of Sodom. America is sooooo over. Three more years of this a$$hat who will rule with Executive Orders. New precedents are being set daily and they will never be undone without a revolution. The GOP-e is ridding itself of the conservatives just like PEELosey got rid of her Blue Dog Dems.
It’s all in our very near future.
A stay would come from a judge on the 10th circuit.
“So the States don’t have the right to define marriage”
Oh, they do... As long as it’s in favor of the gays. But otherwise, no.
No child is safe, no family is safe, wherever a Rat (and I don’t mean Democrat, as there are GOP-appointed Rat judges, too) sits on the bench wearing a black robe.
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