Silhouette
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You don't have any room to tell anybody they are being illogical.
You are being downright hysterical.
Please describe specifically how the following is "hysterical"..
"Against this background (a statewide deliberative process) of lawful same-sex marriage in some States (but not all, because we just said it's arrived at by a statewide, not federal, deliberative process of a state's citizens)..."page 14 of Opinion: United States v. Windsor
After a statewide deliberative process that enabled its citizens to discuss and weigh arguments for and against same-sex marriage, New York acted to enlarge the definition of marriage...Against this background of lawful same-sex marriage in some States, the design, purpose, and effect of DOMA should be considered as the beginning point in deciding whether it is valid under the Constitution
After reading that, how is again that lower circuit courts can order states to perform gay marraiges against the will of the deliberative consensus?
How again is it that "Prop 8 isn't the law anymore"?
You realize of course that the intiative system in California and other states is a "statewide deliberative process"...and that the ruling against defenders of Prop 8 was procedural, not on the merits of their case? The Court effectively (but not purposefully) let stand the lower court ruling in the federal system, for what it was worth. Which is exactly bupkiss upon the reading of Windsor. In June 2013, the US Supreme Court affirmed the merits of Prop 8 as binding law.
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Just as I thought...you have no lucid rebuttal, only smears. I hope that's not going to be how your lawyers are arguing "the inevitable" in the SCOTUS hearing this year. Because if it is, you'll have to change your name here to "blind-arrogance"..
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