It's All Over Except For The Wailing and Gnashing Of Teeth

bobabode · #1 10-06-2014, 12:53 PM

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...006-story.html

The US Supreme Court refuses to hear challenges from five states regarding lower court's decisions overturning their bans of 'Same Sex Marriage'.

I hear wedding bells ringin' out.

bobabode · #2 10-06-2014, 01:03 PM

For those keeping track, this makes it 30 states. The rest will have fall into line due to this.

Congrats to all LGBT Americans on this day.

JBS... · #3 10-06-2014, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

For those keeping track, this makes it 30 states. The rest will have fall into line due to this.

Congrats to all LGBT Americans on this day.

Pfft, Fall into line

It stays with the states voters, just how it should be

Rajoo · #4 10-06-2014, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JBS...

Pfft, Fall into line

It stays with the states voters, just how it should be

How did this happen today then.

"The unexpected decision by the justices, announced without further explanation, immediately affects five states in which federal appeals courts had struck down bans against gay marriage: Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Utah."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...iage/16546959/

Federal courts struck down the ban so it's really not left up to individual states. Of course, till this is recognized in all fifty states, the recognition will not be nationwide as in heterosexual marriages.

bobabode · #5 10-06-2014, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JBS...

Pfft, Fall into line

It stays with the states voters, just how it should be

Sorry Jim but you've got it exactly 180 degrees wrong. The federal appeals courts told these five states to keep their neo-puritanical noses out of people's bedrooms and their private lives. The 'tyranny of the majority' states rightists took it on the chin today but if you want to call suffering a TKO a victory, please do.

bobabode · #6 10-06-2014, 02:22 PM

Love the new avatar Jim. Anticipating the congressional wave elections in '16?

Ike Bana · #7 10-06-2014, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

Sorry Jim but you've got it exactly 180 degrees wrong. The federal appeals courts told these five states to keep their neo-puritanical noses out of people's bedrooms and their private lives. The 'tyranny of the majority' states rightists took it on the chin today but if you want to call suffering a TKO a victory, please do.

No shit. Was he a DOMA guy? I suspect he'd be all for a DOMA Constitutional Amendment that would yank it permanently out of the hands of the states. Personally everything but chauffeuring visiting dignitaries from Waco to Nacogdoches (rhymes with roaches), should be out of the hands of the states.

Zeke · #8 10-06-2014, 04:22 PM

Didn't we win around 1865 about this?

Pio1980 · #9 10-06-2014, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by JBS...

Pfft, Fall into line

It stays with the states voters, just how it should be

States Rights BoR buffet, like Jim Crow? I think not.

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bobabode · #10 10-06-2014, 07:01 PM

I guess my good friends over at the ACLU will be filing for an injunction in the remaining 20 states directly. I'll have to go check their website.

Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in 30 States – With More to Come from the ACLU website.

"North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming are all bound by these final federal appeals court decisions that hold that it is unconstitutional to exclude same-sex couples from the protections of marriage." from the above link.