This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage Nationwide In 5:4 Decision
Following yesterday's historic 6:3 Supreme Court decision enshrining the tax known as Obamacare, there was little surprise moments ago when in one of its last remaining decisions in re: Obergefell v. Hodges, the most liberal Supreme Court since 1960 just declared gay marriage legal nationwide. The decision, supported by all the women on the SCOTUS, came down in a 5:4 vote with Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer and Kenedy voting for, while Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito dissented.
As always, the most interesting contents are in the dissent, which today was, ironically, written by Roberts who in the past 48 hours has made many friends and maybe even more enemies. Some of the key remarks:
... this Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise “neither force nor will but merely judgment.”
Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.
Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening. Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens—through the democratic process—to adopt their view. That ends today. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law. Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept.
The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims judicial “caution” and omits even a pretense of humility, openly relying on its desire to remake society according to its own “new insight” into the “nature of injustice.” As a result, the Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?
Understand well what this dissent is about: It is not about whether, in my judgment, the institution of marriage should be changed to include same-sex couples. It is instead about whether, in our democratic republic, that decision should rest with the people acting through their elected representatives, or with five lawyers who happen to hold commissions authorizing them to resolve legaldisputes according to law. The Constitution leaves no doubt about the answer.
As for the president's immediate response...
Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins
— President Obama (@POTUS) June 26, 2015
... it is not to be confused with his pre flip-flop take from several years ago:
... as a candidate for president, Obama told Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church that marriage could only extend to heterosexual couples. “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman,” Obama said at the time. “Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”
And here's Mike Huckabee's different 'perspective'...
Former Arkansas governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges.
"The Supreme Court has spoken with a very divided voice on something only the Supreme Being can do-redefine marriage. I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch. We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.
"This ruling is not about marriage equality, it's about marriage redefinition. This irrational, unconstitutional rejection of the expressed will of the people in over 30 states will prove to be one of the court's most disastrous decisions, and they have had many. The only outcome worse than this flawed, failed decision would be for the President and Congress, two co-equal branches of government, to surrender in the face of this out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny."
"The Supreme Court can no more repeal the laws of nature and nature's God on marriage than it can the law of gravity.
Under our Constitution, the court cannot write a law, even though some cowardly politicians will wave the white flag and accept it without realizing that they are failing their sworn duty to reject abuses from the court. If accepted by Congress and this President, this decision will be a serious blow to religious liberty, which is the heart of the First Amendment."
Full decision and dissent (pdf)
»
- 60219 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
http://www.globalresearch.ca/phone-calls-from-the-9-11-airliners/16924
http://911review.org/brad.com/flights_air.html
I think this sums up how i feel about this "landmark" ruling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYBsuBzulE
Whoopty do, there is no rule of law. Amirite?
A win for the Fudgepackers and Bulldykes.
Their children will thank them later.
Now the lawsuits can fly as the sexually immoral begin to attack "formal" religious freedoms by selecting "high-profile" pastors to be faced with honoring man's law or God's word. The former will be celebrated by this society which is under God's judgment and the former will be hated by men, but loved by Jesus.
---------------------------------------
Within 10 years, the Bible will be considered "hate-speech" and within 20 years it will be law that teaching children the moral values contained within the Bible will be considered "child-abuse" as it is already by some. Remember, in the broadest sense everyone holds to some form of religion, which is a set of moral principals that guide ones behavior.
--------------------------------------------
People do not fall for the misnomer that morality cannot be legislated; it always has been..ie laws against murder, stealing, rape etc except for D.C. of course. Now we can say that immorality is "officially" the law of the land...for the true Christian..this comes as no surprise and the darkness will grow darker and the Light brighter.
---------------------------
This will be good for the true bride of Christ, for the great purging; separating those who claim to be Christian (i.e. Obama) from those are not. Christian parents better not depend on their church to teach your children God's word; it is your privileged and duty..amen.
------------------------
BTW - try putting this onto Islam; won't happen out of fear. Christianity offers forgiveness out of love by God..you will not find anything on forgiveness or an intimate relationship based on love between man and his Creator, which is how you know it is a religion invented by man/Satan. Christians, pray for all.
memorize as much of the bible as you possibly can.
You said it brother.
.
If you memorize this and utilize it in a crucial or desperate situation you will see the true power of the universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3fRLx4pHw
Christ was the last christian just as Buddha was the last buddhist. Organized religion is the root of all evils.
Divorce litigation is currently a $60 billion a year industry in the U.S. That will go way u now.
My lawyer friend is screaming....WINNING BITCHEZ!
Except that only about 2% of the population is bent toward same-sex, given it is unnatural.
While SCOTUS is on a roll redefining
Webster's definition of "marriage.
they should redefine Webster's definition of "truth"
to conform to the current universally accepted
political definition: "pack of filthy lies"
I forsee a booming and profitab immigration business
of guys marrying and naturalizing foreign husbands
The scrotum-scotus just declared itself null and void, soon to be very, very deservedly spindled and mutilated—along with the rest of the elite parasites. Especially the lawyer parasites.
It's time for the PEOPLE to declare it open season on these parasites who are pathologically, psychopathically determined to destroy the Constitution, destroy freedom of religion, destroy freedom of speech.
I say that it's time for the PEOPLE to just say NO! to the perverts in black robes sitting in imperial perversion on the SCROTUM.
Now you have equal rights to get divorced, pay alimony, and lose half of everything you've worked for! Wonder how many straight Americans who promised to get married "once everyone can get married" are breaking up today?
"Gay marriage" was NEVER about equal rights or the right of two sodomites to marry, it was SOLELY about the furthur dissolution of the basic building block of a healthy society, THE FAMILY. MAN-WOMAN-CHILDREN.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/why-get-married...
"Adults will suffer, too. I believe a barrage of court cases has already been planned against those who hold to politically incorrect views of marriage. Many of us will be dragged into court to be prosecuted or subjected to civil judgments. Some will lose their jobs, while others forfeit their businesses. Some will be persecuted and ridiculed and fined. Some may go to prison as the years unfold. Since same-sex marriage has now been determined to be a universal human right by the highest court in the land, it will trump religious liberty, churches, seminaries, Christian schools, businesses and a host of individual liberties. I also fear that judgment will befall this once great nation."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/i-fear-judgment-befalling-america/#LHDwPCwE30...
I am a gay CITIZEN of the US and the EU. What the supreme court said today was that the rights always existed, since 1779, and it does not matter how many years you deny those CITIZEN rights, they always existed. My right to marry is the same as yours! If that makes you want to run out and get a divorce so be it, just don't blame gay people for your own stupidity.
You think you are butt hurt now just wait til you are forced to get gay married to a guy with a monster cock. LOL at all of you.
Well I am drinking and it strikes me that you have been drinking.
But... actually I think equal rights is a Libertarian Concept today since so many are dead set against it.
Maybe LGBT people will support a constitutional party, but I have to admit I don't know what the Constitutional party people are really supporting or what their agenda might be.
I wish there was a law that straightened out the false advertising in Political Parties, Political Ads, Money in politics, gift giving in politics, and conflict of interest.
But since Wealthy Powers control US Politics... likely we will never see freedom, liberty, equality, and justice in the USA... especially when the wealthy can spend unlimited amounts in Courts and in Politics.
But that is just my humble opinion based on US History that I thought was Real!
This is the DARKEST DAY for humanity.
This is the day when evil forces are set loose over entire world.
This also proves that west is really evil, was and will ever be.
----
Why ?
----
This is not a simple matter.
Sex is a spiritual activity,
which opens the pathways for the demons to enter.
Demons enter the perverted , make their thinking perverted,
& violence , immorality and all evil follow in the wake.
This is because immoral, pervasive sex shuts up the minds & brains
of people (VD actually destroys it).
----
Sane people of the world,
Moral & upright people of the world,
UNITE , OPPOSE & THROW OUT
the western culture which
aims to destroy all, all that our
moral & spiritual guides,avatars, messiahs & awakened ones
gave to humanity which uplifts us
----
DOWN WITH SATAN AMERICA