Same-Sex Marriage is now a Right

[zitothebrave]

I support gay marriage... but how does this even get heard in the supreme court?

Just a guess, 16th amendment and Obamacare. Married couples are afforded certain rights that dating couples are not.

I just wish government was out of the marriage game.

 

[Dalyn]

I just wish government was out of the marriage game.

There's profit in it. Same reason religion has been in the marriage game for so long.

 

[sturg33]

How long weso do you think it would've taken Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina to pass same sex marriage? 30 years?

Not sure why that is relevant

 

[sturg33]

For benefits and stuff like that. Some states wanted to recognize gay marriage and some didn't (l.e. not all marriages received the same benefits). The reason it went as high as it did is because some see it as a human rights issue backed by the constitution.

I personally didn't see it that way and I think it should've been left up to the states. I support gay marriage and eventually every state was going to allow it anyway. I am a huge believer in states rights though, and I think this decision is another slippery slope that erodes the rights of individual states. Liberal judges are much more inclined to take away the idea of individual state rights.

Seems like state rights are dead

 

[The Tariff King]

Colorado and Washington legalized Marijuana. So not necessarily.

 

[Dalyn]

Colorado and Washington legalized Marijuana. So not necessarily.

Next thing you know, they'll force people to smoke it.

 

[zitothebrave]

Colorado and Washington legalized Marijuana. So not necessarily.

And you can't pump your gas in NJ

 

[Hawk]

Mike Huckabee is a chode:

“I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch,” Mr. Huckabee said. “We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.”

 

[yeezus]

Next thing you know, they'll force people to smoke it.

some people would certainly be better off.

 

[Julio3000]

Mike Huckabee is a chode:

“I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch,” Mr. Huckabee said. “We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.”

That's the kind of thing that really makes look askance at people who claim the mantle of the founders and seem to believe that love of country is exclusive to those who agree with them.

So you don't agree with the decision? Fine. It's a process, and that process is an integral part of the fabric of our society, our country . . . you know, the one you're always gassing on about how much you love. Change some minds and win some elections, you big baby.

Besides, "judicial tyranny" is a phrase that, for generations, has just screamed "I'm a crusty old bigot."

 

[The Tariff King]

Change some minds and win some elections, you big baby.

Besides, "judicial tyranny" is a phrase that, for generations, has just screamed "I'm a crusty old bigot."

But they can't win elections because the voter fraud is so dramatically high that they'll never win.

 

[yeezus]

And you can't pump your gas in NJ

sometimes the attendant is really slow though and i want to pump my own.

 

[57Brave]

 

[mossy]

I just hope at least one major news source gives this it's due coverage. (Sarcasm)

 

[57Brave]

Just think - in one 24 hour span

ACA was put in the books for good! Kicking down the doors to meaningful universal healthcare
Marriage took on it's rightful meaning
and
Bristol Palin former paid abstinence spokesperson announced she is again an unwed pregnant.

Next, the Braves?

 

[yeezus]

Just think - in one 24 hour span

ACA was put in the books for good! Kicking down the doors to meaningful universal healthcare
Marriage took on it's rightful meaning
and
Bristol Palin former paid abstinence spokesperson announced she is again an unwed pregnant.

Next, the Braves?

Bristol is the perfect hypocrite for the GOP in every single way, and it's glorious.

 

[gilesfan]

Colorado and Washington legalized Marijuana. So not necessarily.

Weed being "legal" in Washington is about the loosest you can possibly use the term.

 

[57Brave]

The same people that fought tooth and nail to deny marriage to responsible adults propped this child up as an example of wholeness

With a "W"

 

[goldfly]

Another baffling decision... when did the federal government rule on marriage?

Has the 10th amendment been abolished?

well, one of the top of my head that made one of the justices marriages legal is a case that the federal gov't ruled on marriage

it was in 1967 and was Loving vs Virginia

oddly enough, the case that allowed Thomas to marry the woman he loved ruled in the dissent in this case

 

[goldfly]

I support gay marriage... but how does this even get heard in the supreme court?

oddly enough, it's first steps that helped make this happen were republicans so scared of losing elections, they put this on a ballot in swing states and their conservative base states to bring out their base to vote that denied rights to other people and by putting it into state law etc, it could then be challenged in court and we are here today on this historic day where loved ones can now marry each other.

the same people that hate that this happened can only blame themselves for allowing this to get here. to quote V for Vendetta:

truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror