Silhouette
Gold Member
- Jul 15, 2013
- 25,815
- 1,938
- 265
- Thread starter
- #81
The state of Texas or any state at all in the Union has full rights to set parameters for marraige that include age, gender and number of people as well as closeness of blood relation. Absolutely, until further notice: Lifestyle-Marriage Equality Slugout State Authority vs Federal US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
The States have no authority to establish critiera that violate constittuional guarantees. And in 44 of 46 cases heard by the federal courts, the federal judiciary has found that the States have violated constitutional guarantees with same sex marriage bans....
Except that the Court that trumps all of those 46 cases Found in Windsor 2013, 56 times, that the question of redacting the word "marriage" to include non mother/father households for kids was up to the discreet communities within the states.
Since you agree that not every single person of any age, number or blood relation can marry, you agree that marriage is a privelege only extended to some, but not all. Therefore it is not a "right" as you interpret it. Since it is not a right and instead a qualified privelege, the question left is who gets to make that call? 5 kings and queens in DC or the governed of the separate states? If you believe in democracy, you agree with Windsor 2013: Lifestyle-Marriage Equality Slugout State Authority vs Federal US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum