Posted on 01/06/2015 7:12:54 PM PST by Steelfish
Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Have Sights Set On US Supreme Court In 2015 Highest court to decide this week if it will take up marriage appeals 36 states now recognize same-sex marriages after landmark year
Amanda Holpuch 6 January 2015
Last year saw same-sex marriage bans fall at a pace nearly unheard of for any social movement in American history, but advocates on all sides of the issue are hoping 2015 will bring a definitive legal decision from the US supreme court on whether same-sex marriage should be the uncontested law of the land.
On Monday, Florida became the 36th US state to recognize same-sex marriages, double the number that stood at the end of 2013. And by Friday, residents in the other 14 states may know what their future holds if the supreme court decides at its next conference session that it will take up one of several marriage appeals now sitting before it.
“It is our fervent hope that by the end of June of 2015 that we’ll have uniformity in every state in the nation and that the legality of same-sex marriage is something that will only be debated in history classes and no longer in our federal or state courts,” said attorney Dana Nessel, who has been working on a case in Michigan since September 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The “same sex” freaks have already gotten what they wanted. I believe it will be the man/boy love crowd who will be setting their sights on the SCOTUS in 2015. We’ll all be kissing the pedophiles’ butts next.
Things have turned out the way that they have because too many on our side were non-combatants in the Culture War.
Then they are not on “our side”
Agreed. I have long contended that the biggest enemies of social conservatives are liberal Republicans.
I’m truly interested to see what SCOTUS decides to do. I believe they can’t rule state homosexual marriage bans unconstitutional. If they could, they wouldn’t have ruled the way they did in Baker vs Nelson. I frankly think a lot of homosexuals are going to be very surprised when SCOTUS rules state homosexual marriage bans constitutional.
The above line from the article is misleading. The truth is that in many of the 36 states pro-gay activist judges are wrongly ignoring the 10th Amendment-protected power of majority voters to prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage.
> “36 states now ***recognize*** same-sex marriages ...”
‘recognize’?
How about ‘coerced into observing” against the will of their people?
It is a fact that 38 states, enough to ratify a Constitutional Amendment, chose to pass a law banning same-sex marriage or amend their state constitutions, or vote down same-sex initiatives.
State Legislatures have more power than all of Congress, the Federal Judiciary and the Executive Branch combined via Article V of the US Constitution.
To access such power, 36 states must apply for a meeting called a ‘convention’; NOT a Constitutional Convention, but a regular meeting or assembly type of convention.
The Convention of States Project is facilitating the beginnings of an Article V process for the State Legislatures.
And the power is solely within the State Legislatures, not State Governors or State Courts, but State Legislatures.
Watch Mark, do it now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZuV8JnvvA
Once the template is confirmed that liberalizing a right in one state imparts a requirement of the rest of the states to follow suit, it will be time for gun-right advocates to begin liberalizing the governments of Massachusetts, Maryland and New York - abolishing their unfair restrictions. Then the rest will fall in line.
And the “states rights” farce has been fully exposed. Time for a Federal Marriage Amendment.
True. My views on how conservatives fight battles has changed over the years, and I have hardened my stance. Sorry, but as soon as this social liberalization started, before the creepy marriage ‘equality’ crap began, there should have been violent protest. Like an Iron Guard against social liberalism and libertinism, attacking houses and businesses of filth and degeneration. People say its a leftist tactic, but it gets an agenda through as we’ve seen.
Don’t agree? Enjoy the Jeb Bush presidency which will feature the first sodomy wedding in the Oval Office.
Radical enemies require radical reaction. Unfortunately, too many sat on their asses.I think the nation is doomed.
That’s right. Don’t look to the GOP, AKA ‘Dem-lite’ for leadership.
I’m going to work to send my GOP rep, a Boner-stooge, to Lugerland.
It looks like these ingrates are going to take what we gave them and p*** it away.
Of course when the Democrats take back over in 2016, they will resume ruining America.
But we’ll be rid of the Boehners and sharper-than-a-serpent’s-tooth GOP-e.
Actually, the whole article (or at least the excerpt - I did not go to the Guardian website) is extremely deceptive. They talk about the “uncontested law of the land”, but I am unaware of any single state that has adopted same-sex marriage by law - it is always by FEDERAL judicial fiat. (Note: I seem to recall that the Massachusetts acceptance was due to a state court, so the preceding statement may be slightly hyperbolic.)
This isn’t about law, it’s about license - the license to subvert the most beneficial societal structure ever known to man.
I sure miss the 1950’s.
Homosexuals were considered depraved and you seldom heard about them.
I will NEVER see these freaks as normal.
Of course, I did think it was stupid when my teachers made me hide under my desk in hopes of surviving a nuclear attack.
If only we could turn back time......
I am at the point that unless the Court rules correctly, I don’t care what they say.
It could rule that a giant pile of sewage smells like apple pie, but that won’t make it so in the objective sense.
It could rule that mothers have the right to cut up the baby in the womb, but that won’t make it right in the objective sense.
And it could rule that marriage is anything other than a man and a woman.
But that doesn’t make it so.
If SCOTUS doesn’t (highly unlikely) take a homosexual marriage case, maybe the 11th Circuit will rule against homosexual marriage to force their hand.
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