Posted on 06/22/2015 10:27:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gay and lesbian couples could face legal chaos if the Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage in the coming days.
Same-sex weddings could come to a halt in many states, depending on a confusing mix of lower-court decisions and the sometimes-contradictory views of state and local officials.
Among the 36 states in which same-sex couples can now marry are 20 in which federal judges invoked the Constitution to strike down marriage bans.
Those rulings would be in conflict with the nation's highest court if the justices uphold the power of states to limit marriage to heterosexual couples. A decision is expected by late June in cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
Some gay rights groups and state officials said the chance the court would not come out in favor of same-sex marriage is remote.
"Recent history of the past eight months, plus all the rulings of the past 20 years, don't indicate that to us this is going to go against us," said Tom Witt, executive director of gay rights organization Equality Kansas. "It could, but a giant meteor could fall on my head in the next five seconds."
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very likely
and the GOP will shrug and say “Well, that’s over”
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Pro-gay activist judges started the legal ‘chaos’ when they ignored 10th Amendment-protected state powers to prohibit gay marriage, the states having never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage.
If Bruce Jenner can become a “woman” then can “she” legally marry a man?
If the answer is no then under law doesn’t that mean that Jenner is not really a “woman” under law?
This is all so befuddling to me. A man is a woman and a woman can be a man, at least according to the media. A half white guy can become a black guy and a white woman can tan and perm her way in to being black?
What if we were like those sea creatures that live deep in the ocean? We were all blind and basically did things by touch? We would have no color prejudices and males would be males and females would be females but I wonder if we would develop other prejudices?
All that aside, who really cares about any of this?
“20 in which federal judges invoked the Constitution to strike down marriage bans.”
And that is what caused this “scary” chaos for ABC! Idiot MSMers.
We all stated that a stop should have been placed at the first court case , but instead this admin and activist judges wanted to impose their agenda.
Oh, please. The emperors of chaos are accusing US of chaos?!!!
Chaos will result of the SC rules in favor of liberalizing the definition of marriage. There is no argument used by the homos that won’t be used by other and larger groups. Since there is NO requirement of sexual activity between marriage partners, count on parents marrying their children to facilitate distribution of property to avoid probate and estate taxes.
CommieCare caused a historic upheaval of people’s lives which is still ongoing, but that didn’t stop them. It only matters when the inconvenience will affect plans and agendas which the left deliberately jumped the gun to set in place, just for the exact reason so they could use the ‘upheaval” of those very plans as a reason to favor their policy.
In which case the court will simply de-legitimize itself.
Because they aren’t going to change the laws of nature and nature’s God or the Constitution of the United States one iota.
Kennedy knew what he was doing. The effete elites have bought the unscience kool aide of “born that way” for a behavior.
Since there is NO requirement of sexual activity between marriage partners, count on parents marrying their children to facilitate distribution of property to avoid probate and estate taxes.
Sorry, it’s not the upholding of traditional values and the Constitution that cause “chaos”.
Rachel Dolezal sure threw a monkey wrench into the whole leftist “born that way”/”idenitifies as” BS.
Is it “racist” to say that?
Same tactics being used by Obama on Obamacare and flooding America with illegals.
Anthony Kennedy was nominated by Reagan after Bork was “Borked” by Ted Kennedy and the other despicable Dem liars.
That was the reason Reagan appointee Sandra Day O'Connor gave for continuing to uphold Roe v. Wade at its first serious SCOTUS challenge, Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), if I recall correctly. Abortion was already part of the fabric of society, per her.
When is the ruling going to get handed down?
I think the supers will pass the buck back down to the states
Oh, baloney.
The world survived just fine without *gay* marriage.
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