Federal judge strikes Texas same-sex marriage ban

[Victory67]

Federal judge strikes down Texas gay marriage ban

The Conservative states could have prevented this by allowing same-sex domestic partnerships. This would have put off the issue of same-sex marriage for decades.

They shot themselves in the foot.

Now same-sex marriage will soon become the law of the Republic.

 

[bodecea]

 

[JakeStarkey]

I imagine my evangelical friends in Jasper, Tyler, Newton, San Augustine, Sabine, and Shelby counties in East Texas are exploding.

Any true blue libertarian or conservative should be in support of this action.

 

[nodoginnafight]

I will say that this is happening faster than I thought it would.
If you talk to people under 40, the overwhelming majority just don't care whether someone is gay or straight.
I thought it would take another 10 to 20 years for the anti-gay laws to start crumbling. I'm surprised.

 

[bendog]

The biggest phallic salt pillar in the earth's history is gonna be in Dallas (-:

 

[ScienceRocks]

Who cares who gets married? As far as I concern lets get rid of the rest of the stupid laws.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Indeed. Let's move forward and throw this millstone from around the neck of the GOP.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I imagine my evangelical friends in Jasper, Tyler, Newton, San Augustine, Sabine, and Shelby counties in East Texas are exploding.

Any true blue libertarian or conservative should be in support of this action.

True Conservative? God I wish there were some.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A federal judge declared Texas’ ban on gay marriage unconstitutional Wednesday, but left it in place until an appeals court can rule on the case. Judge Orlando Garcia issued the preliminary injunction after two gay couples challenged a state constitutional amendment and a longstanding law.

Garcia ruled the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection and due process clauses by denying recognition of one couple’s Massachusetts marriage and denying another couple the right to marry. The decision came exactly two weeks after a Feb. 12 hearing, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott will likely make an immediate appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in New Orleans.

“Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,” Garcia wrote. “These Texas laws deny plaintiffs access to the institution of marriage and its numerous rights, privileges, and responsibilities for the sole reason that plaintiffs wish to be married to a person of the same sex.”

https://www.worldmag.com/mobile/article.php?id=29361

Exactly.

State laws, constitutional amendments, and other such measures must be rationally based, be supported by objective, documented evidence, and pursue a legitimate legislative end to pass Constitutional muster; this ruling should come as a surprise to no one, and Texas and other states with similar measures should act to repeal them accordingly.

 

[Pete7469]

I personally only oppose gay marriage because the left is devoted to advancing it.

It does pervert the status quo, and the gay lifestyle is a deviancy. I don't think it should be given the credibility of a "lifestyle choice", but then again I don't care what two consenting adults do to each other.

I think all libtards should go gay and have as many abortions as possible. The wombs of libtard women should be regularly flushed just in case.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

If Democrats gave up on Gun Control and Republicans gave up on Gay Control, both parties would gain a 10% increase in legitimacy.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Who cares who gets married? As far as I concern lets get rid of the rest of the stupid laws.

-Marry your mother
- Marry your father
- Marry your brother
- Marry your sister
- Marry your grandfather
- Marry your grandmother
- Marry your dog
- Marry your cat
= Marry YOURSELF

....as you say, who cares who marries who.

 

[thanatos144]

Federal judge strikes down Texas gay marriage ban

The Conservative states could have prevented this by allowing same-sex domestic partnerships. This would have put off the issue of same-sex marriage for decades.

They shot themselves in the foot.

Now same-sex marriage will soon become the law of the Republic.

The judge is wrong

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

I personally only oppose gay marriage because the left is devoted to advancing it.

In other words laws denying same-sex couples their equal protection rights are idiotic, your reason being one such example.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Who cares who gets married? As far as I concern lets get rid of the rest of the stupid laws.

-Marry your mother
- Marry your father
- Marry your brother
- Marry your sister
- Marry your grandfather
- Marry your grandmother
- Marry your dog
- Marry your cat
= Marry YOURSELF

....as you say, who cares who marries who.

Rightwing demagoguery and ignorance in one post – good job.

Laws prohibiting all the ‘marry yours’ are Constitutional because they’re applied to everyone equally, which is not the case with regard to prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying.

 

[hazlnut]

I think all libtards should go gay and have as many abortions as possible. The wombs of libtard women should be regularly flushed just in case.[/COLOR]

But then the country would be over run by inbred Teatards -- damned if you do, damned if you don't...

 

[thanatos144]

I think all libtards should go gay and have as many abortions as possible. The wombs of libtard women should be regularly flushed just in case.[/COLOR]

But then the country would be over run by inbred Teatards -- damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Where in the constitution does the judge get this power?

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[Pete7469]

I personally only oppose gay marriage because the left is devoted to advancing it.

In other words laws denying same-sex couples their equal protection rights are idiotic, your reason being one such example.

No, I can understand why religious conservatives seek to marginalize the gay marriage issue.

It is a deviant lifestyle, gays are perverts and have something wrong inside their heads. They're so absorbed with their perversion it defines who they are. They're consumed with their sexuality.

The gays demand special privilege and protection. Their agenda is promoted by equally depraved criminally insane sociopath statist, and their mindless tools like you.

I personally don't care what they do to each other, but I'm sick of being told I not only have to tolerate it, but if I somehow don't celebrate their psychosis I'm a bigot or a nazi.

So since it's an either/or choice, I choose to oppose you, because on every other issue, you bed wetters are wrong. Why would this issue be any different.

 

[Pete7469]

I think all libtards should go gay and have as many abortions as possible. The wombs of libtard women should be regularly flushed just in case.[/COLOR]

But then the country would be over run by inbred Teatards -- damned if you do, damned if you don't...

They have a country run by criminally inane leftist sociopaths and populated by mindless lemmings and slaves already.

It's called north korea.

You'd be happier there.