Supreme Court Forces Gay Marriage On All 50 States

[Ryan Ruck]

Well, as expected, there it is. Supreme Court forces all 50 states to perform gay "marriages". Someone can feel free to start a new thread on it, I'm tied up at the moment.

Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...4-556_3204.pdf

I agree with you in a way Mal in that it seems like most, if not all, states would have gone this way but, 2 things.

1) The government shouldn't be getting deeper and deeper into the marriage world and it should be up to the states as to how they would wish to proceed with it if at all. Government should be slowly extricating itself and this SCOTUS ruling has done the exact opposite since marriage is religious in nature. They're now dug in like a tick.

Without reading the ruling or dissent, the anti-discrimination language I'm hearing mentioned (calling marriage a fundamental liberty akin to speech and voting) sounds like it could be used as a bludgeon to do exactly what you said about cakes and other functions in forcing them to accommodate.

2) If the government must be involved, it shouldn't be called marriage. It may seems petty but simply put, words have meaning and two people of the same sex in a codified relationship is not marriage.

Scalia sure is not happy, again. Sounds like he's really letting it rip in his dissent. I think I want him in the new Supreme Court after CW2. Here's part of his dissent:

"I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy. The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance. Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of
special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me.

Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves."

Him, Alito, and Thomas. Here's part of Alito's dissent:

"... Most Americans—understandably—will cheer or lament
today’s decision because of their views on the issue of
same-sex marriage. But all Americans, whatever their
thinking on that issue, should worry about what the majority’s
claim of power portends. ..."

Sure is a lot of bullshit for less than 3% of the population.

The silver lining... Enjoy divorce homos!

[Malsua]

I'm still of the opinion that we're going to fragment completely as a society as the left goes further and further into socialism and police state tyranny and the right wants to go the other way. We are apart and moving in opposite directions and folks living in the middle of the Idaho forest really won't give a shit what 5 unelected fuckwits in DC do and if they send their goons to enforce their edicts, I can only imagine the resistance won't be pretty.

[MinutemanCO]

Interesting picture you paint. Could be prophetic.

Part of me wants to get this train rolling as you've described so the gray areas cease to exist. Oppressors and resistance. Period.

[Ryan Ruck]

Went ahead and started up this new thread for this.

We are indeed headed into a brave new world.

The only thing we can do is keep fighting, even if it is a losing battle, and prepare to endure.

[Ryan Ruck]

The White House is lit up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the Supreme Court's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage on Friday, June 26. The court ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, handing gay rights advocates their biggest victory yet.

[Phil Fiord]

I am shrugging. If those who are gay want to marry, so what. The current events were unfortunately overshadowed by an issue that means little to me personally. I do not care what one does in their life or bedroom if it does not hinder another in their happiness pursuits.

That said, I do wonder about the speed with which the White House was setup with rainbow lights. It seems to cheapen a monument with an issue that many are very passionate about one way or the other. I also wonder why this event was rainbow splashed on sites and buildings all over, Puerto Rico and Denver to name two others. When we have had ANY other event, no such thing has happened - well there was the St Patricks Day where the WH fountain was green. That too was cheapening the place.

So here are these:




and this from a few years ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K9dS9wl7U

[vector7]

I'm still of the opinion that we're going to fragment completely as a society as the left goes further and further into socialism and police state tyranny and the right wants to go the other way. We are apart and moving in opposite directions and folks living in the middle of the Idaho forest really won't give a shit what 5 unelected fuckwits in DC do and if they send their goons to enforce their edicts, I can only imagine the resistance won't be pretty.

This is where America is headed and the Left will not stop pulling America down this path until it leads to our destruction, we have seen it happen to every great nation in history.

The 45 Communist Goals to destroy America is nearly complete.

From bondage to spiritual faith,
From spiritual faith to great courage,
From courage to liberty,
From liberty to abundance,
From abundance to selfishness,
From selfishness to complacency,
From complacency to apathy,
From apathy to dependency,
From dependency back again to bondage."