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Very bad week for the GOP. Heads exploding all over the place. LOL
So it's all about politics?
Very bad week for the GOP. Heads exploding all over the place. LOL
Lol, that's not a Supreme Court case.
Fail.
Why shouldn't they be able to sign that document? It doesn't hurt anyone at all for them to do it, even if they are allowed to refuse to sign it for some people. And them doing it saves the state money in having to provide more people to be available to sign those documents.
Just to make the point, the 14th amendment is the rule of law. It made this decision inevitable.
So it's all about politics?
Churches will be in violation of federal law if they refuse. I can GUARANTEE to you there will be discrimination lawsuits against churches who refuse to marry gay couples. Hell, even private business have been sued for refusing to provide service to same-sex couples.
I guess you didn't read => Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children
First no money will be saved by the state. As far as I'm concerned it's all said and done when a couple goes to the courthouse to get said marriage license and they make you raise your right hand and swear the oath. The more important issue is if the state is authorizing certain individuals such as ministers/priests to legally witness and sign a secular legal document I think we get on shaky ground when said person refuses to sign said document for particular people. The state aught to stay out of religious affairs and vice versa.
Well what do you know,there world didn't end.
This goes against the wishes of the people. It's like in 2010 when the people reacted to having Obamacare shoved down their throats...too much too soon. There will be backlash in the electorate.
Just to make the point, the 14th amendment is the rule of law. It made this decision inevitable.
But they are still free to discriminate who they can marry for religious reasons...in a religious marriage. There's no reason why they can't wear both hats. If the religious official doesn't feel he can perform the duties of a civil official, then he simply wouldn't take the job. Legally barring them from taking the job would actually be illegal.
What a ****ing retarded lie.
This ruling violates the Constitution.
Even the Chief Justice disagrees with you on that one. This was a very clear abandonment of oath and illegitimate amendment to constitution by five justices, and noted as such by the remaining justices, including the Chief.
So you can't provide anything other than a threat?
What a strange threat at that. "The God I worship will punish America one day, for something not actually not in the scriptures, with what and when I cannot say, even though our next door neighbor hasn't received anything resembling a reprimand. It'll totally happen, you'll all see."
Maybe God like poutines.
You give so many ****s you responded to a post that wasn't even addressed to you. You can be a flaming faggot all you want, you'll never be accepted. You'll always be an outcast, no matter what the court says. I hate you.
They also ignored decades of precedent on equal protection law.Well I read the entire decision and the dissents of all 4 Justices. In the dissents, they, as I have here, intimated that, not so far into the future, we will see religious expression (Which is protected an enumerated in the Constitution) challenged, and also, the broad definition of liberty abused in ways that should worry every American, and that it doesn't matter which side of the aisle, nor of what philosophical or political lean one might entertain. In the nutshell, 5 robes just granted a right to a cross section of American's where previously none had existed. They Amended the Constitution. That is SCARY!
Tim-
This is what the left fails to realize. They are systematically destroying the Constitution and the protections that it provides, and taking our liberties and turning them into federal powers. We all lose.
The left just doesn't care about anything that is not right in front of their collective faces, they don't even know or care what happened with these decisions. All they care about is that they got a short term bone thrown to them.
The Constitution protects us from the possibility of a tyrannical government. This Supreme Court has decided that it doesn't care what the Constitution says.
Again, we all lose, so many just don't know it yet.
Yes. Welcome to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Marriage equality was denied on the basis of politics and it has now been expanded due to politics.
Not necessarily 'this' world you need to worry about.
I am delaying comment until I finish reading the opinion. I have not gotten to his dissent yet. I will get back to you on this though.
Look at my sig line.
I don't know about Canada, but here in the U.S.A, the govenment treats married people differently than singles, so they should not be able to discrimiate against SSM.
Wow. Such un-needed anger.
It's illegal to bar someone from holding a job because of their faith, and rightfully so.