That was my point actually. The Court attempted in Obergefell to overturn Windsor and insert itself as the sole federal authority that could override states' sovereignty to define marriage as affirmed in Windsor 2013.
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AND if you weren't utterly stupid you would see the danger of allowing the government to define marriage. What if the nasty queers gained power and made straight marriage illegal ?? You see dumb shit that is why government should not have any say in marriage.
As for public accommodation laws, the idiots arguing for those likewise are too stupid to grasp the consequences of their argument. It's clear that forcing someone to do business with another person is unconstitutional, and it's also clear that affording some people protection from discrimination but not everyone, is also unconstitutional.
Do you consider the United States Supreme Court "government"? If yes, then you in particular must be outraged by Obergefell assigning unilateral power to define marriage to the government and ripping the direct power of the People to govern themselves via Windsor's affirmation that States (the People) define marriage.
I highly doubt the queers can legitimately outlaw straight marriage with their tiny numbers. After all, in the most liberal state in the Union (California) gay marriage was voted down twice and remains illegal on the books there today. I'd say that's a vote of confidence that the queers aren't going to take over marriage from the People. But the USSC did attempt that power grab. Luckily the cake issue will reverse that ultimately. Obergefell is going to come under a scanning electron microscope this time...
Are you stupid, or just hope that everyone else is? The states are government as well and have no more right to define marriage than the federal government does.
Jesus Christ, how some of you morons even make it through a day is a marvel.
Actually the state governments were affirmed in Windsor as having exactly that power, because the states are run by the People who govern themselves there.
I guess because you don't understand how democracy works at the ground level, you're the idiot. Your argument seems to be "states have no right to regulate any behaviors or conditions within their boundaries". Would you also prescribe that state powers are unfair regulating driver's licenses? You think the People of a state don't have a vested interest in who can and who can't operate a motor vehicle?
Taking your argument to it's end, you would force People of a state to tolerate bigamy, polygamy, incest etc. marriage. Marriage, as Obergefell said, is of pivotal concern to children. Children's upbringing is of pivotal concern to any state who has to deal with the success or wreckage of how kids grow up. People decided long long ago that both a mother and father in a home where children are raised, produces the best citizen within any state. States with filled prison of the wreckage of children who were short-changed is of immediate concern to that state's voting populace. Ergo, states logically, via their People, control the parameters of marriage because of the children involved in them. This is why states incentivize marriage. Not for the adults in the marriage. People could give a crap what adults do with contracts. It's the children bound up in those contracts that directly and inarguably affect the state as a whole in a real and pivotal way.
So, states DO and MUST have the right to regulate their own social milieu. And marriage is paramount of that right. Windsor said as much. Then of course when it is convenient for the LGBT cult two years later, the owned-Court happily reverses that to yet again and arbitrarily accommodate LGBTs by purposefully misinterpreting the 14th Amendment as a convenience to the Cult. Just some deviant sex addicts may marry, but not others...no matter how that contract legally extinguishes for life a mother or father to a child from the contract.
In fact, children from gay "marriages" tried to weigh in with Amicus briefs in Obergefell about how they suffered from being forced to never have a father or mother. The Court refused to admit those pivotal statements. Yet went on to say the children's wellbeing was pivotal to their rationale in Obergefell! That's like the Court saying "we recognize this third party to the contract as vital, in fact the contract is meant to benefit them the most, however we're going to ban this third party from the discussions of pivotal revisions to the contract to their demise". And that is the violation of the Infancy Doctrine that I've been talking about elsewhere. A child cannot be bound to a contract that harms him or her. And surely if that contract existed for their benefit (mother AND father), revising that key benefit without their participation is a form of oppression towards children, indeed child abuse enshrined in a binding contract that the Infancy Doctrine cannot tolerate.