marriage legislation

Setting the stage for its most significant ruling ever on gay rights, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it would resolve the state-by-state battle over same-sex marriage. The justices said they will decide cases from Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where state officials are defending...

Well, the tsunami of societal institutionalizing of gay marriage has hit a snag. Got some disagreement at different federal appeals courts. State constitutional bans on gay marriage upheld in todays ruling...

Why Judge Reinhardt’s opinion on same sex marriage is dangerous to our Republic! . . One of the most important provisions in our Constitution is that judges and Justices are bound by the very words of our Constitution to support and defend “this Constitution”! The Court is not given the...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/huckabee-threatens-to-leave-gop-over-gay-marriage/article/2554606

This is pretty long, so I haven't read it yet. But I am going to go ahead and drop it here. http://www.cardozolawreview.com/Joomla1.5/content/27-3/CRANE.WEBSITE.pdf

SEE: 9th Circuit strikes down same-sex marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho October 7 at 4:32 PM ”The 9th Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that bans on marriage for same-sex couples in Idaho and Nevada were unconstitutional. The ruling stated that the defendants’ argument that bans on marriage for...

Note that Justin Raimondo is openly gay. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-libertarian-case-against-gay-marriage/ The Libertarian Case Against Gay Marriage By Justin Raimondo • April 1, 2011 CC 2.0 CC 2.0 Opponents of same-sex marriage have marshaled all sorts of arguments...

Discrimination based on sexual orientation is just gender discrimination, no? And the 14th amendment's drafters made it purposely open-ended, so to say it doesn't apply to gender (or to sexual orientation without the gender connection) is baseless, its open-ended and inclusive by default. It...

when a judge does this on rulings they favor it's good, but when a judge does this on rulings they don't favor it's bad. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-baume/louisiana-judges-gay-marr_b_5782550.html

Judge Hinkle defies constitutional principles, strikes down Florida’s marriage law! U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle begins his opinion by establishing it is a fundamental right to marry. What Hinkle ignores is the “fundamental right” to “marry” within a legal sense applies to one male and...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/court-utah-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitutional-24298290 More at link.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/presbyterian-pastors-preside-gay-marriages-24218717

So Politico warns the GOP that it will destroy the GOP, the social conservatives whine "yes it will, but for the opposite reason!" http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2014/06/02/politico-is-right-gay-marriage-will-destroy-the-republican-party/ The way I see it, either way they are going the way of...

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http://theweek.com/article/index/259422/the-gay-marriage-bigots-strike-again Mod note: OpenDis sub-forum? I think it's genpoli, but then I think almost everything I post is genpoli :)

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/03/mozilla-ceo-steps-down/

Judge strikes down Michigan ban on gay marriage; state asks for a stay

http://news.yahoo.com/gay-marriage-foe-march-nyc-gay-pride-parade-162626714.html