Kennedy Signals On Gay Marriage
Arguments on gay marriage before the Supreme Court Tuesday reveal that Anthony Kennedy, a likely swing vote, is looking at it as a civil rights issue.
The Court heard two and a half hours of oral arguments Tuesday in four consolidated cases, challenging laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee that ban same-sex marriage, refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, or both. Same-sex couples say those laws violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution…
Kennedy opened by questioning whether it would be appropriate for the Court to discard a definition of marriage that “has been with us for millennia.”
Kennedy’s later questions, though, touched on many of the same concerns he cited in decisions upholding gay rights—including the children of same-sex couples and the “dignity” conferred by marriage…
“Haven’t we learned a tremendous amount … just in the last 10 years?” Kennedy asked.
Those questions seemed to indicate that Kennedy is thinking about this case along mostly the same lines that have previously led him to rule in favor of gay rights.
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Obewon April 28th, 2015 at 20:09
Three cheers! Anthony! Anthony! Anthony!
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 11:37
Yeah, you’re the kind of person someone should take seriously.
William April 28th, 2015 at 20:50
“Haven’t we learned a tremendous amount … just in the last 10 years?” Kennedy asked.
Yes we have.
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 11:38
That a corrupt, drug dealing, sexually confused person should be our thought leader? Um, no thanks.
granpa.usthai April 29th, 2015 at 01:01
if the gays are American Citizens that supposedly have the ‘same’ rights under the law as all other citizens – how can gay ‘marriage’ not be a civil rights issue?
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 11:36
Because there is no such thing as “gay” marriage. It’s a false construct designed to achieve preferential treatment for a sexual orientation.
Any “gay” person can get married in any of the fifty states. They just have to find a suitable partner.
fahvel April 29th, 2015 at 03:02
just the idea that a “supreme court” of any kind can state that 2 people do or do not have the right to marry is insane – but please please post here the comments from the guy who says and does nothing on the court when it is done. Thomas is his name.
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 11:34
Racist.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 13:52
You’re no longer welcome here.
Have a nice day tho, ‘Sweetie.’
mea_mark April 29th, 2015 at 13:56
You beat me to it, but I wiped out all its comments.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 14:06
Thanks Mark for deleting his stupid, jerk, dummy comments.
mea_mark April 29th, 2015 at 14:15
Both accounts banned, second time I did it by ip, was afraid they would just keep creating accounts. Some trolls just have totally empty lives.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 14:20
That poor thang!
oldfart April 29th, 2015 at 14:22
that idiot reminds me of a dog that walks around the neighborhood pooping in all the neighbors yards. good riddance.
thanks folks.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 07:54
If you let the gays get married, stuff like this is gonna happen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7YW045deBY
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 11:39
If you let the gays get married you will have made your statement before God that His morality does not matter. And that we will act based on our desires and not on common sense.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 11:45
Oh puh-leaze! My God and your God aren’t even friends.
Why is your God such a hateful arsehole?
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 13:26
Your God doesn’t exist, sweetie. You’re an idolator.
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 13:32
I see that your pastime is trolling mods. What a sad life you lead.
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 13:42
I see that you take great pride in letting everyone know you’re a “mod” of a barely looked at bulletin board. Does it get any more pathetic than that?
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 13:45
Hey dummy, it’s written right there next to my name.
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 13:49
I know. What an ‘achievement’. I’m surprised you haven’t tried to highlight it in gold. :)
Anomaly 100 April 29th, 2015 at 13:50
Don’t worry about my achievements because my life is none of your business.
Franky, I don’t care what you say to me. But stop trolling our readers. I will only tell you this once.
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 13:51
Oh my! Threatening moderator mode.
mea_mark April 29th, 2015 at 13:55
I am sorry, but you are an idiot and just have to go. You are just cluttering up the place with your idiotic garbage.
Cosmic_Surfer April 29th, 2015 at 13:47
Oh look – a troll who imagines he knows an imaginary invisible giant’s brain. You know there are great medications for that. Haldol for one
NKR April 29th, 2015 at 13:51
I would not know. But apparently you have some familiarity.
David Lloyd-Jones April 30th, 2015 at 10:47
Satire is probably the best way to go. Your problem is, it’s sometimes difficult to know what will work.
A few years ago I raised a bit of money to publish what I thought was self-satirical material on “Islamic” extremism. At the time I could read Arabic at an elementary level, so I picked a passage from Sayyid Qutb’s writing that I thought was hilarious, real used-car salesman stuff in which he flatters his readers and then shovels it out by the cow-load.
Then I checked it with my partner, whose second language since childhood had been Arabic. Good thing I did, because I had it badly wrong. “That’s exactly the stuff that Arab youngsters find the most attractive,” she explained.
Trevor Moore is doing fine work here for sane people. On the other hand this song may, uh, swing both ways.
-dlj.