great idea.
simple a ...dare i say it,.. FAIR
As we've seen from district courts, apparently "states rights" and state "constitutions" mean jack squat when our black robed overlords feel like making up new "rights" that they like.
"Rights" that have never existed before, and are not even recognized by the US Constitution.
Well done, Ted.
This is very necessary, specially if those nine black robed jurists decide to sprong a June surprise on us.
This needs to be passed before then.
And if the Kenyan Klownie vetes it, then override.
Congress has the last word on all judicial decisions, not the Supreme Court.
But Congress likes to always hide behind the Supremes, and let them do their dirty work for them.
gesture is great.
we already have the 9th and 10th amendments. if this bill passes’it’s’like saying these twoamend,ents don’t already give the states this power.
My opinion? Everyone can apply for a civil union license but leave marriage up to the states (and churches)
If the individual states would all decide in favor of traditional marriage as the sole definition of marriage, then this would have teeth. Any bad apples, however, will spoil the whole barrel.
According to the 10 amendment it already is a state issue.
God bless Ted Cruz and the other Republican senators lending their support.
States have no more right to redefine marriage than federal courts do.
The only Person with any legitimate “choice” in matters of protecting innocent life and defining marriage is God. And He made those choices at the beginning of His creation.
The only real question left for us is whether or not we will dutifully conform our laws and practices to His choice, so as to be blessed, or to be a curse to our posterity.
I can’t quite get my head around this. Why does the 10th Amendment exist? Where in the constitution does congress get the power to determine the definition of marriage or write laws that already are taken care of by the Bill of Rights? I suppose this is out of fear of what federal courts will do. Or perhaps Cruz doesn’t have the cojones to stand up to Obama if Obama breaks out his pen and phone again. (My comments are directed more at Republicans as a whole than to single out Cruz.)
Take it a step further Ted. Leave marriage to the churches. Why should government have anything to do with it?
Leave civil union to the states.
Leave marriage to the church.
just read the bill, It needs to be re-written to just pertain to only same sex marriages. the way it is now a marriage of someone under 18 in a state like WV with parent’s permission would be not a legit marriage if they moved to a state where the law limits it to 18. Not that this is a huge issue but this was only the first one off the top of my head and you know things like this will happen and be used to challenge the bill. -different states also have different rules on how close blood relatives. -and i hate to say it but i have seen polls in southern states that still have 30% ish support for miscegenation laws. Can you imagine the chaos if no one showed up to vote and that one got passed? -eh. im probably worrying over nothing: this bill is pretty irrelevent once the supreme court weighs in anyway, short of a constitutional amendment.
Traditional marriage is outlawed in all 50 states.
The Supreme Court will decide this and whether 14th Amendment Protections extend to homos and "homo marriage".
Absent a Constitutional Amendment, Congress is out of this loop.
And Ted knows it.
It is a great idea.
After this, do one for abortion.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Why is it even necessary?? Clearly article 3, section 2 grants CONGRESS the authority to limit what the court can hear and act upon
“ with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
A simple majority can fix the problem overnight.