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Supreme Court Justices Zero in on the One Argument that Could Save Traditional Marriage
Bloomberg via Aleteia ^ | April 29, 2015 | MARK STRICHERZ

Posted on 04/29/2015 4:30:00 PM PDT by NYer

Edited on 04/29/2015 4:37:06 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Supreme Court heard arguments about the legality of same-sex marriage bans yesterday. Both the

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KEYWORDS: marriage; scotus
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1 posted on 04/29/2015 4:30:00 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 04/29/2015 4:30:40 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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That is an interesting take. I heard someone discussing it and said that Justice Roberts could join the gay marriage advocates by saying that denying two men or two women to marry each other would be “illegal due to laws against sex discrimination.”


3 posted on 04/29/2015 4:41:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: NYer
The multinationals and oligarchs will not stand for different laws in different states especially since they have workforces that span those states.

How are they going to get the Indians working in HR to properly advise their workers about benefits when the laws are different depending on the state from which the employee is calling?

4 posted on 04/29/2015 4:42:37 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: NYer

Mutual masturbation is dignified. Got it.


5 posted on 04/29/2015 4:49:41 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: NYer
The Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act on the grounds that the federal government should not tell the states how to regulate marriage

If so, why did they even take this case?

6 posted on 04/29/2015 4:50:41 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: GreyFriar

To sanction for gay marriage in a religious way by
the government IS an establishment of religion and
unconstitutional on it’s face.

Another wedge driven into the constitution by the liberal
statists who find it an impediment to their agenda.


7 posted on 04/29/2015 4:51:23 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: oldbrowser
If so, why did they even take this case?

Hopefully to smack down lower courts who ignored the admonition to leave it to the states.

8 posted on 04/29/2015 4:52:19 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: RightOnTheBorder
Ok, that makes sense.
9 posted on 04/29/2015 4:54:21 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Eagles6

The deviants demand that we dignify their practices of ****** each other and ********* each other and they want us to accept it when they ***** each other and they want the right to ******** in public.

Maybe they can actually BE dignified and eschew practices that can’t even be mentioned on a family-friendly site!


10 posted on 04/29/2015 4:58:03 PM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: GreyFriar
That is an interesting take. I heard someone discussing it and said that Justice Roberts could join the gay marriage advocates by saying that denying two men or two women to marry each other would be “illegal due to laws against sex discrimination.”

Using that argument, any combination or number of people or animals or objects could declare they were discriminated against. There would be no limit to anything called a wedding.

11 posted on 04/29/2015 5:10:35 PM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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Truth?


12 posted on 04/29/2015 5:12:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: NYer
The Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act on the grounds that the federal government should not tell the states how to regulate marriage

So now they are being asked to rule the federal government must tell the states to regulate marriage, forcing them to include sodomy.

13 posted on 04/29/2015 5:18:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: MeganC

No, they can’t. Their goal, along with soetoro / jarrett / soros and the left is the destruction of Judeo Christian Western Civilization.


14 posted on 04/29/2015 5:48:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: NYer

Regardles, it is time to start taking away government power at all levels.

These people think they are gods and we are their subjects. It is time for all this to change and these people never to be in any position of power over anyone else, ever again.


15 posted on 04/29/2015 5:48:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The multi-nationals can go to Hell, their workforces and profits don’t trump my 1st Amendment rights, nor Constitutional Federalism!


16 posted on 04/29/2015 5:49:43 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: GreyFriar

He may do that and Kennedy may find his “ right to dignity” compelling enough once again to ignore the fact that the Constitution and the 14th Amendment are silent on same sex marriage. That is the price we pay for allowing 9 human beings to be our lords and masters.


17 posted on 04/29/2015 5:52:11 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: GreyFriar

In the name of tolerance, gays will eliminate freedom of speech, freedom of belief beyond a dark corner of one’s house and freedom of association from public.

That is reason enough to say “no!”


18 posted on 04/29/2015 6:08:56 PM PDT by tbw2
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Consider Justice Anthony Kennedy, who asked the third question: One ­­of the problems is when you think about these cases you think aboutwords or cases, and the word that keeps the word that keeps coming back to me in this case is—is millennia, plus time. First of all, there has not been really time, so the respondents say, for the federal system to engage in this debate.

… Even Justice Stephen Breyer got in on the act, noting that marriage understood as the union of a man and a woman “has been the law everywhere for thousands of years among people who were not discriminating even against gay people, and suddenly you want nine people outside the ballot box to require states that don’t want to do it to change … what marriage is to include gay people.” He concluded: “Why cannot those states at least wait and see whether in fact doing so in the other states is or is not harmful to marriage?”

Maybe they learned their lesson from Roe v Wade about the perils of preempting the democratic process.

19 posted on 04/29/2015 6:45:08 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: oldbrowser

Yeah, this is all theater, homosexual marriage is a forgone conclusion.


20 posted on 04/29/2015 7:38:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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