clownboy
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Re: Federal judge strikes down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage
Well, it wouldn't violate the 14th and SCOTUS, who knows how they'll rule or even if they'll finally take the case head on. They're seemingly content with letting the constitution die the death of a thousand cuts as it is. Still over three quarters of the states don't allow gay marriage and of the ones that do it's solely from judicial legislation for the most part. It's a state's issue, the SCOTUS knows it, but is unwilling to say it. So they avoid, avoid, avoid.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this matter, but the only opinion that will really matter in the long run is the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court when it eventually rules on this.
Does anyone really think that it will deny the right to marry to some people in the USA and grant that same right to others?
I don't believe that will ever happen because it would violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Well, it wouldn't violate the 14th and SCOTUS, who knows how they'll rule or even if they'll finally take the case head on. They're seemingly content with letting the constitution die the death of a thousand cuts as it is. Still over three quarters of the states don't allow gay marriage and of the ones that do it's solely from judicial legislation for the most part. It's a state's issue, the SCOTUS knows it, but is unwilling to say it. So they avoid, avoid, avoid.