SCOTUS strikes down gay marriage bans, legalizing marriage equality nationwide

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Skux said:
Good luck to the people saying they'll leave America... everywhere else they would want to go already has marriage equality lol
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Not all countries. Germany, for instance, still does not allow it, only a watered-down version of it. It's a disgrace.
 
bms2993 said:
What has our nation become? :( A sad day. A very sad day.
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Salty local news Facebook comments.
Any of you libstains have ACA? Coz you're gonna need it from the AIDS that ensues :)
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Sodom and Gomorrah and God destroyed it so what do you think is going to happen here?
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U have to be kidding
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Sick It us written one men and one women that is how God sit it up ..it won't change for any one .God love you but don't change his words he made you.
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Sad missed up country
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Bonus:
If same-sex marriage offends people it should be banned right? Cause that's what people are saying about the rebel flag, that's apart of history just like this is now apart of history.
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Slacker said:
Pretty much yes. An article I read about SSM here in North Texas has all the counties individually making their preparations (changing forms to not read "bride and groom" for example). Sounds like it'll be happening very soon, if not immediately.
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I believe I read the Supreme court will give the opposition 3 weeks for any last minute issues before it fully goes through. I'd imagine many court clerks will start issues licenses immediately though
 
Freedom = $1.05 said:
I hope decisions like this one push more folks to vote.

A 5-4 decision just goes to show that if what you want is progress (and progress seems to only really come from the left given that the american right appears to mostly just want to shit on it every step of the way) you need to get out there to vote given that Supreme Court candidates are put forth by the president. Had a conservative won one of the last couple of elects we probably wouldn't be here right now.
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Don't worry, conservatives will make sure to get out there and vote to overturn these unelected judges, and especially President Huckabee will restore our moral values.

He said that if elected president, he would simply ignore any Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality until Congress passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide…which he would then veto.

“Until the Congress of the United States puts on my desk a bill that basically defies the laws of Nature and Nature’s God and defies the longstanding tradition of marriage, the federal government will not recognize same-sex marriage because there is no law that requires it and that would be true for the military and it would be true for all federal institutions,” Huckabee said. “If the Congress decides that they want to pass enabling legislation, they could put it on my desk and I would veto it, and they can attempt to override it. That’s the process.”

Huckabee said that even his detractors should sympathize with his anti-gay-marriage stance: “If liberals were subjected to a conservative court that forced them to tithe their income to scripture or forced them to go to church or forced them to believe something that they don’t want to believe, they would say, ‘We can’t do that, that would go against our conscience.’ And I would say, ‘You are exactly right and we can’t have such a ruling. This is why I find this very unsettling is because liberals will rue the day when the sword they use to enact their agenda is the sword of the court rather than to do it by way of the people’s elected representatives.”

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“There can be no surrender on the point of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage,” Huckabee said, claiming that the ruling “goes to the heart of who we are as Americans and whether or not religious liberty lives or dies.”

He vowed not to “surrender to a tyranny that frankly would defy everything we are as a country,” lamenting that even people who went to law school have decided to “acquiesce to this judicial supremacy.”
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It's about time, America

You did good here. As long as people aren't trying to marry animals or barn fowl, they deserve the right to marry whomever they want.
 
Between this and the ACA ruling, you gotta believe SCOTUS:

1. made it so much easier for the 2016 Republican field to avoid obvious pitfalls.
2. made it so much harder to avoid the income inequality discussion.
 
What great news. Congrats to anyone/everyone who now can benefit from this.
The fact that there could be people opposed to this angers me, but pretty much most of society does anyway so this is nothing new.
 
Nickovic said:
As an Australian I can't help but shake my head at my own country. Hope this triggers something here.
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How about we share our marriage equality laws with you and you share your gun control with us.

Edit: And holy shit at Scalia's dissent.
 
Skux said:
Good luck to the people saying they'll leave America... everywhere else they would want to go already has marriage equality lol
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If they want they can all come to Australia, then I can leave safe in the knowledge that they're all in the one place where they can't hurt anyone.
 
Honestly, this is kind of a surprise. I was sure wheeling and dealing would keep this from happening as purely as it did but I'm glad the right decision was made. Very happy for the hundreds of thousands of couples that have equal freedom in the US today.
 
I am a very religious person. Personally I am glad that this decision came about so that we can move on. It was going to happen eventually. Kennedy says that this decision doesn't force churches to marry same-sex couples. The 1st amendment was used properly.
 
TheLostBigBoss said:
So what are the repubs going to do now?

Are they literally going to try to fight two major SupCom rulings for this election?

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The court decisions this week has probably made it easier for some Republican candidates in the presidential election, as it takes two divisive social issues off the table.
 
johnny956 said:
So happy this is finally over. I will admit Chief Justice Roberts dissenting opinion was more down to earth then the others. I understand where he is coming from but at the same time this needed to be done

This is his opinion
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The guy is a jackass and so is everyone else with this dissenting opinion. Constitutionality is suppose to trump "the democratic process". When asshat states deny the basic rights given to a person through the constitution, it is the sole duty of these 9 people to lay down the law and state that it is unconstitutional.

The supreme court is part of the check and balance in the US government and preferring to do nothing goes against the purpose of the judicial branch.
 
Scalia said:
But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today’s judicial Putsch. The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003.
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Well, yes. They had. Scalia believes that the decision today is an example of the worst excesses of popular sentiment invading what is supposed to be cold, dispassionate jurisprudence, but in fact it is the opposite - popular sentiment is what allowed such unconstitutional discrimination to persist in the absence of legal challenges.

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They have discovered in the Fourteenth Amendment a “fundamental right” overlooked by every person alive at the time of ratification, and almost everyone else in the time since. They see what lesser legal minds—minds like Thomas Cooley, John Marshall Harlan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, and Henry Friendly—could not. They are certain that the People ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to bestow on them the power to remove questions from the democratic process when that is called for by their “reasoned judgment.”
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Let's see what the Fourteenth Amendment says.

Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution said:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Scalia said:
These Justices know that limiting marriage to one man and one woman is contrary to reason; they know that an institution as old as government itself, and accepted by every nation in history until 15 years ago, cannot possibly be supported by anything other than ignorance or bigotry.
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Slavery too is an institution as old as government - give me a better argument, you trained legal mind, you. Also, the institution of marriage is not being attacked whatsoever, and it is entirely fine. The ignorance and bigotry is in limiting it to straight people. This is the part that violates the equal protection clause.
 
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