SCOTUS To Hear Gay Marriage Arguments This Week
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week that could lead to gay marriage being legal nationally.
The justices on Tuesday are hearing extended arguments, scheduled to run 2½ hours, in highly anticipated cases about the right of same-sex couples to marry. The cases before the court come from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, all of which had their marriage bans upheld by the federal appeals court in Cincinnati in November. That appeals court is the only one that has ruled in favor of the states since the 2013 Windsor decision…
Two related issues would expand the marriage rights of same-sex couples. The bigger one: Do same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry or can states continue to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman? The second: Even if states won’t allow some couples to marry, must they recognize valid same-sex marriages from elsewhere?
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Obewon April 26th, 2015 at 10:42
SCOTUS 2014 equal marriage ruling upheld the 10th and 14th U.S. Constitutional amendments.
Is the U.S. Constitution still valid in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee regarding 2000+ federal benefits only available through equal marriage?
A: Federal Government Supremacy Clause: Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause
granpa.usthai April 26th, 2015 at 14:26
for a state to belong to the UNION, they must accept the ‘Supremacy Clause’. Invite everyone to check their own state Constitutions.
In the State of NC it’s Article 1, section 5.
Howbeit, they allow the carrying of concealed weapons in violation to section 30.
and – have the most corrupt Industrial Commission among all the ‘right to be exploited by corporations states’ sic: {right to work}.
granpa.usthai April 26th, 2015 at 14:48
simply put:
Do gay American Citizens have the EQUAL RIGHTS under the Laws of the land (forced religious beliefs being barred) as American Citizens who do not find the ‘pursuit of happiness’ within their lifestyle?
if not, could the SCOTUS also consider outlawing the wearing of MIXED FIBERS and make it illegal under the laws of GOD to MASTURBATE? -lest the wrath of GOD fall upon our nation, for GOD will not overlook little MASTURBATERS dressed in MIXED FIBERS defiling HIS laws anymore than HE did the wearers of MIXED FIBERS and MASTURBATERS in the now utterly destroyed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah:
(adding in their sins per Ezekiel 16:19)
“BEHOLD -this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom,
PRIDE
FULLNESS OF BREAD
and abundance of idleness (plenty of time to MASTURBATE) was in her and in her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
couple them sins with wearing MIXED FIBERS and you’re flirting with a big ass burning rock falling out of the sky right on top of the nation’s capital!
as one who meets fully the Biblical Qualifications of a PROPHET OF GOD (100% correct in my prophecies – 24/7 – 365.25/year – DAILY, I know about these things.
arc99 April 26th, 2015 at 16:06
The 9th amendment states, in its entirety
“”The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”””
Notice it does not say ‘retained by the states’, it says ‘retained by the people”.
The US Constitution itself makes it crystal clear that our rights as citizens are not restricted to those listed in the Bill of Rights or any other part of the Constitution.
So how is it that marrying the person of your choice is not one of the unenumerated rights protected by the 9th amendment which no state is allowed to infringe?
Admittedly there are some interesting contradictions in the Constitution based on what is says and what was common practice at the time. The 8th amendment prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. Yet the death penalty, and being restrained in stocks in the public square were common place.
It was almost 200 years before laws restricting interracial marriage were struck down. So I see no contradiction between the fact that our culture has prohibited same-sex marriage for generations and arguably contradicts the 9th amendment.
Separate but equal was in place for 56 years before it was struck down in Brown v Board of Education as a violation of the 14th amendment.