Justice Anthony Kennedy
Posted on 10/08/2014 7:47:30 AM PDT by HOYA97
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada. The order came minutes after Idaho on Wednesday filed an emergency request for an immediate stay. The state's request said that without a stay, state and county officials would have been required to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at 10 a.m. EDT. Kennedy's order requested a response from the plaintiffs involved in Idaho's gay marriage lawsuit by the end of day Thursday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 30 other states.
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They were for it before they were against it?
The state’s request said that without a stay, state and county officials would have been required to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at 10 a.m. EDT. Kennedy’s order requested a response from the plaintiffs involved in Idaho’s gay marriage lawsuit by the end of day Thursday.
How about the fact that gay marriage is not a Federal issue. It’s not in the Constitution and there is no Federal law or regulation saying same sex persons may marry. The Ninth should not have given an opinion on it. Kennedy just slapped down the Ninth for ruling in an area they have no jurisdiction over.
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What needs to happen in all the states forced to legalize gay marriage is for the IRS and State taxing agencies to audit all married gay’s tax returns. Now that their marriages are “legal” where two spouses work they are required to file as Married Filing Jointly, or Married Filing Separately. Prior to this they would have filed two separate single tax returns and would have paid a total tax less than a heterosexual couple under either Married filing status.
Now the gays can pay the same marriage tax penalty straight couples have been paying for decades. If gays file separate single returns they should be prosecuted for tax fraud and go to jail. Where they’ll experience a different kind of sexual encounter.
Solution; States should get out of the marriage business. Let it become a religious cerimony or a federal contract.
Huh? SCOTUS denies cert on the other cases but blocks the 9th Circus’ ruling?
It’s a good thing, but color me confused.
If that were the case, they wouldn't have punted on the other cases brought before them that made gay marriage legal in a bunch of states. Very queer that Kennedy would now want to intervene.
Exactly! Judges usurping the will of the voters.
I’ve long suspected that Justice Roberts goes both ways, and that’s how the Obama administration blackmailed him into giving the green light to Obamacare.
I know a lot of people around here and elsewhere have been bashing the SCOTUS for refusing to take cert on those cases that have struck down state laws banning gay marriage. Question: How many of those cases were decided at least in part under the state constitution? I ask because the SCOTUS has no business deciding state constitutional questions except to the extent that the state constitution conflicts with the federal constitution.
Could this be a Third Great Awakening? God’s Hand intervening?
I hate to sound like a surrender monkey, but pray for what? For God's blessing on a profligate nation? He would be violating his Character by doing so.
What we are experiencing now IS His judgment. And it will get worse, I believe, before He puts an end to Evil's advance when He comes to rule for a thousand years.
Well somebody knows what the hell they are talking about. Problem is here are 5 justices who don’t.
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For government purposes, what exactly is the definition of “marriage”, and why is there a vested state interest in treating people differently because they are married?
If the government is gonna eliminate the traditional meaning of the word “marriage” from the nation’s vocabulary, then they should take the issue to its logical conclusion and outlaw state recognition of ANY “marriage”. Anything besides that is arbitrary and dishonest.
I’m not hopeful.
I read earlier that it was Scalia, not Kennedy. That is really something if it was Kennedy. Wowzer.
I had assumed that Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito were willing to hear the cases and Kennedy blocked them.
It now looks like it was Roberts blocking them and not Kennedy.
Unfortunately, I expect that the full Court will also decline to hear these cases and that this stay will be lifted.
Our best hope now is the Amendment that Senator Cruz is proposing, but I think that's a long shot.
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