Posted on 01/17/2015 11:48:18 PM PST by NetAddicted
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, positioning it to resolve one of the great civil rights questions in a generation before its current term ends in June.
The decision came just months after the justices ducked the issue, refusing in October to hear appeals from rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states. That decision, which was considered a major surprise, delivered a tacit victory for gay rights, immediately expanding the number of states with same-sex marriage to 24, along with the District of Columbia, up from 19.
Largely as a consequence of the Supreme Courts decision not to act, the number of states allowing same-sex marriage has since grown to 36, and more than 70 percent of Americans live in places where gay couples can marry. ... The last hour will concern a question that will be moot if the answer to the first one is yes: whether states must recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The only chance to save marriage is if they strike down any and all laws that apply only to married couples.
Absolutely brilliant!
And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldnt adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Dont be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.
If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the gender reassignment operation. And if kindergarten isnt soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.
Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldnt get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.
I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didnt need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing Gods wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didnt cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.
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Uh, no. They may resolve whether SCOTUS continues the marked degeneration of civilization, but it WON'T resolve a "civil rights" issue, unless one means the civil rights of millions of voters and those who adhere to the Judeo-Christian ethic regarding marriage.
Its time for the states to just stop issuing marriage licenses. Let the Feds take it, they have everything else.
When a couple applies for a license from the State to marry, they are actually asking for permission to engage in the unlawful activity of marriage (License - a revocable permission to commit some act that would otherwise be unlawful - Blacks Law 7th ed). Why, because the State can regulate that which it licenses, by entering into a State-sanctioned franchise (marriage) as a married couple, a couple forfeits their rights to a private, sovereign marriage and any ownership control of their children or property; as a result of the marriage license. Child Protective Services receives its full power and authority to seize children via the marriage license under the ancient legal doctrine of parens patriae. When a State-licensed married couple has a child, the Birth Certificate is the document the State uses to claim ownership of the child under its marriage contract. State ownership remains as long as that child lives, even after the age of 21. If you have a birth certificate, the State owns you too. Couples married under a state-sanctioned marriage license also give up 1/3 of their property to the state. Should one person die, the government, through the inheritance tax, will demand the surviving party to buy them out - usually a 28- 35% tax.
from here-
http://macquirelatory.com/Marriage%20License%20Truth.htm
“Will two persons be able to marry even if they are not gay men or gay women? For instance they want to get married to get benefits that single persons cannot get.”
It would appear so. Of course, this happens today with some regularity. There are marriages of convenience for health insurance and green cards. They just happen between men and women. There is no requirement that couples prove they are straight before getting married.
You are right; ouch... Apologies. Can’t even blame auto correct for such execrable grammar (posting after a long hard gig is no excuse). :-)
And of course, I want to meet Rosie in person.....
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