Praise God: Texas AG Says State Workers Can Cite Religious Beliefs To Deny Gays Marriage Licenses

[Silhouette]

Wow what delusions

The 9th Amendment exists. It's not a delusion.

The Texas AG opinion carries no legal weight.

No, on the contrary, it carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court on the issue of the cult of LGBT vs Christianity on a fast track. Which is exactly what they had in mind I'm sure.

Good luck sorting that out. Hobby Lobby already exists as a precedent on that question. Imagine the Court having to reaffirm in the interest of fairness to Hobby Lobby intent, that Christians have a right to object to gay marriage but VOTERS OF EACH STATE DON'T!

It's going to be the 1st Amendment vs Article 4, Section 2...only the 9th Amendment says that none of the provisions of the Constitution may extinguish the right granted in another.

Ooops!...looks like Kennedy and pals didn't read the whole Constitution before they decided to create a de facto new provision that says that some (, but we're not sure which all and how many) behaviors repugnant to the majority may now skirt around the majority's right to regulate behaviors...

Hey, isn't Congress the only branch that can add brand spanking new provisions or Amendments to the Constitution?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Praise God: Texas AG Says State Workers Can Cite Religious Beliefs To Deny Gays Marriage Licenses"

Yet another example of the ridiculous right.

 

[bodecea]

Why hasn't Texas seceded like they want to yet?

 

[Silhouette]

Wow what delusions

Why hasn't Texas seceded like they want to yet?

Don't need to, they have the 9th Amendment...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The Texas AG opinion carries no legal weight.

No, on the contrary, it carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court on the issue of the cult of LGBT vs Christianity on a fast track. Which is exactly what they had in mind I'm sure.

Good luck sorting that out. Hobby Lobby already exists as a precedent on that question. Imagine the Court having to reaffirm in the interest of fairness to Hobby Lobby intent, that Christians have a right to object to gay marriage but VOTERS OF EACH STATE DON'T!

It's going to be the 1st Amendment vs Article 4, Section 2...only the 9th Amendment says that none of the provisions of the Constitution may extinguish the right granted in another.

Ooop!...looks like Kennedy and pals didn't read the whole Constitution before they decided to create a de facto new provision that says that some (, but we're not sure which all and how many) behaviors repugnant to the majority may now skirt around the majority's right to regulate behaviors...

Hey, isn't Congress the only branch that can add brand spanking new provisions or Amendments to the Constitution?

Same-sex couples in Texas will start marrying this week, licenses were issued Friday. More licenses will be issued this week and more marriages performed, and the AG's contempt for the Constitution and rule of law will earn him a place in history alongside the likes of George Wallace.

 

[nat4900]

Jesus is always in your heart. You just have to learn to find him.

I don't know if I like my gardener THAT much....

 

[Skylar]

Wow what delusions

The 9th Amendment exists. It's not a delusion.

The Texas AG opinion carries no legal weight.

No, on the contrary, it carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court on the issue of the cult of LGBT vs Christianity on a fast track. Which is exactly what they had in mind I'm sure.

The USSC is almost certainly going to deny cert. As state officials represent the state. And in state has no religious conviction. If a state official uses their position to force citizens of that state to adopt tenets of their religion....that's the establishment of religion. Which is explicitly forbidden.

Worse, your logic is absolute garbage. Lets follow it: Can a Muslim judge refuse to rule in any manner that violates sharia? Can a fundamentalist Muslim police officer refuse to take a DV complaint from a woman whose husband just beat her senseless....because that woman wasn't wearing a burka?

If not, why not? Wouldn't their religion trump civil law too?

It's going to be the 1st Amendment vs Article 4, Section 2...only the 9th Amendment says that none of the provisions of the Constitution may extinguish the right granted in another.

Says you. But remember.....you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You told us what the Obergefell ruling was going to be, insisting you knew what the court was going to have to base their ruling on, how they were going to side with you, what status determinations the court would have to make and a litany of other pseudo-legal babble.

Nothing you predicted happened. Nothing. Your every prediction was comically wrong. The courts are not bound by your assumptions. And you have no capacity to glean their rulings.

Ooops!...looks like Kennedy and pals didn't read the whole Constitution before they decided to create a de facto new provision that says that some (, but we're not sure which all and how many) behaviors repugnant to the majority may now skirt around the majority's right to regulate behaviors...

Or.....you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about. One or the other.

 

[Skylar]

Wow what delusions

The 9th Amendment exists. It's not a delusion.

The 9th amendment doesn't say any of the batshit you just did.

 

[IsaacNewton]

All Republican politicians have left to them are 'showy denials' to make the unwashed con masses 'believe' something they want will happen. It won't, Texas state government can't deny people marriage licenses.

They can blather and flail to make it appear to their base that they're 'tryin ta fight'. But that is all it will ever be.

The horse has left the barn and is running down the beach.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Texas AG opinion
"carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court" is a statement of belief but not of fact.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why hasn't Texas seceded like they want to yet?

They don't want to lose all those federal jobs in the state propping up their economy.

 

[Silhouette]

Texas has announced that there are lawyers standing in the wings ready to defend clerks, magistrates and other official's 1st Amendment rights to refuse to participate in homosexual behavior "marriage". And the SCOTUS thought they were done with the gay marriage case. The one they Ruled on last Friday was just the preview to the movie. Plus it was an illegal Ruling because it significantly rewrote parts of the Constitution to newly cover just some deviant sex behaviors as a new "class". That's not allowed. Only Congress can amend the Constitution with the help of the states. Sorry SCOTUS. Your game of "pass the buck and cave to pressure" has just bit you in the butt....finally..

 

[SwimExpert]

Jesus is always in your heart. You just have to learn to find him.

You're gonna shit a brick when you find him, and realize that he's alot closer to being black than he is to being white.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Texas counties split on issuing same-sex marriage licenses

Most counties are issuing licenses today, and by the end of the week they all will.

The issue is religious liberty, so the counties will find a way to issue licenses (until told to do it the right way) in some fashion to ALL folks.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Jesus is always in your heart. You just have to learn to find him.

You're gonna shit a brick when you find him, and realize that he's alot closer to being black than he is to being white.

Aryan Jesus does not exist.

Semitic Jesus does exist.

 

[Skylar]

Texas has announced that there are lawyers standing in the wings ready to defend clerks, magistrates and other official's 1st Amendment rights to refuse to participate in homosexual behavior "marriage". And the SCOTUS thought they were done with the gay marriage case. The one they Ruled on last Friday was just the preview to the movie.

Says you. The same person that got every detail of the Obergefell ruling wrong and demonstrated for us that you have no clue what you're talking about.

Plus it was an illegal Ruling because it significantly rewrote parts of the Constitution to newly cover just some deviant sex behaviors as a new "class".

Who says they created a new class, or that the class is illegal?

Again, Sil.....you do. And you don't know what you're talking about. Its the same silly tale over and over. You make shit up. You insist the courts are bound to it. You stand dumbfounded when the courts don't follow your pseudo-legal gibberish.

Get used to the cycle. As its not changing.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sil got her clock cleaned by SCOTUS.

Period.

It's over.

 

[BlindBoo]

No, on the contrary, it carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court

He warned in a statement Sunday that any clerk, justice of the peace or other administrator who declines to issue a license to a same-sex couple could face litigation or a fine.

But in the nonbinding legal opinion requested by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Paxton says "numerous lawyers" stand ready to defend, free of charge, any public official refusing to grant one.

 

[Silhouette]

No, on the contrary, it carries the ability to propel this issue straight to the US Supreme Court

He warned in a statement Sunday that any clerk, justice of the peace or other administrator who declines to issue a license to a same-sex couple could face litigation or a fine.

But in the nonbinding legal opinion requested by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Paxton says "numerous lawyers" stand ready to defend, free of charge, any public official refusing to grant one.

Yes, a small army of lawyers are standing in their stalls chomping at the bit, ready and waiting to take this right straight back up to SCOTUS. Friday's ruling was like a preview. These cases are the movie.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Sil got her clock cleaned by SCOTUS.

Period.

It's over.

Her world just ended, for good...