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Federal Judge strikes down South Carolina marriage ban
WACH Fox 57 ^ | 11/12/2014 | WACH Fox News Center

Posted on 11/12/2014 7:53:25 AM PST by GIdget2004

A federal judge has struck down South Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage.

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel on Wednesday ruled against the state's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But marriage licenses can't be immediately handed out. Gergel gave state Attorney General Alan Wilson a delay until Nov. 20.

(Excerpt) Read more at wach.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: activistjudges; homosexualagenda
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To: manc

A Federal Marriage Amendment would stop them. They can’t rule the constitution unconstitutional.


41 posted on 11/12/2014 7:20:18 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: GIdget2004

Far past time to start impeaching or at least threatening it for judges who overturn the will of the people!!!!!!


42 posted on 11/12/2014 7:23:41 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

scotus can rule something unconstitutional if they decide one section of the constitution violates another section. they could potentially support one and reject another.

for example if an abortion ban amendment would pass, a case would be brought to scotus, and they’d determine the amendment violates the imaginary right to it somewhere in the first amendment.

same with an amendment legalizing slavery.

depends on the makeup of the court.


43 posted on 11/12/2014 8:02:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: struggle

A judge just told MI, also that our law was unstitutional and gays must be allowed to marry.


44 posted on 11/12/2014 8:17:34 PM PST by bog trotter
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To: Secret Agent Man
same with an amendment legalizing slavery.

Since when is slavery illegal? I mean, the entire productive segment of our society is forced into servitude and subjected to wage theft so that an entitled class may be artificially supported.

45 posted on 11/12/2014 8:24:05 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Secret Agent Man

It can be done and all bases covered. We should not let the left get away with lying and stealing the rights of the people to have their say. THEY made it a federal issue and now we must answer. Otherwise you are looking at a situation as in North Carolina where the best judges resign rather than support homosexual marriage. It is a win win for them unless we stand up to it.


46 posted on 11/12/2014 8:59:11 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

If it does maybe we should fly our flags at half-mast,in mourning for our country. Or maybe upsidedown as a distress signal.


47 posted on 11/12/2014 9:29:00 PM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Rodamala

:)


48 posted on 11/13/2014 12:18:10 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GIdget2004; All

Will South Carolina Appeal?


49 posted on 11/13/2014 2:49:17 AM PST by sr4402
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To: EternalVigilance

“I won, you lost.”

- Baraq Obama


50 posted on 11/13/2014 4:06:01 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: GIdget2004

With a name like that, he’s likely another liberal Jew who thinks he’s entitled to re-engineer American society at a fundamental level as they have since the 40’s. I find it amusing that Muslims are using the same tactics now against these Jewish elites.


51 posted on 11/13/2014 4:35:06 AM PST by mikeus_maximus
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To: All

I’m sorry my FRiends, but the fat lady has sung...IMHO, our Republic has long been dead; we are only now seeing just how long the carrion will last. We’ve not lasted longer than the 200 year average I’m afraid, because the People have long ago lost their teeth (and our Constitution never had any).

Look at Roe vs. Wade. 40 years later, settled science upon report after report: life in the womb begins at conception. Yet, still the SCotUS have ‘written’ this ‘right’, and never righted the wrong (and 30+MILLION have paid). No State Amendment, nor I believe any Const. Amendments, could be passed to make it otherwise.

Even when the (R) held D.C., there was not a PEEP from Congress. No talk of even taking the issue away from the Courts (as they rightfully can).

NO talk from the States re-affirming the 9th/10th Amendments

NO action from We the People. No angry throngs of People with firearms, bats, pitchforks, tar, feathers and rails...

But here, on THIS issue, the tide will somehow turn?? What else needs be slipped through (’deemed’ or gaveled) before the light finally turns on? Has the Cryer or Gobble given ANY indication they have anything but capitulation (their ‘jobs’) on their mind?? No budget, no more ‘shutdowns’, talk of amnesty, etc....and this from a tidal wave of (R) backing!!

Sorry folks, hunker down, reign in the $$ going to D.C., teach your children well; but the war is over. I only hope the pendulum swings mightily before I finally slip this mortal coil...but I doubt even the hope.


52 posted on 11/13/2014 9:42:45 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: GIdget2004

The headline is a lie. They never banned marriage, not real marriage anyways


53 posted on 11/13/2014 9:45:14 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GIdget2004

I’m am not a conspiracy kind of guy, but to have every judge rule that same sex marriage is unconstitutional is conspiratorial. Prove me wrong.....


54 posted on 11/13/2014 2:48:57 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: RetSignman

“Hmmmmmm, I wonder where Graham stands on this issue.”

Graham doesn’t stand, he bends over.


55 posted on 11/13/2014 2:49:57 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: GIdget2004

judges are lawyers and these lawyers have been indoctrinated into the born that way myth.


56 posted on 11/20/2014 2:36:48 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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