Arkansas Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban
The ruling is expected to be appealed Arkansas' Supreme Court.
I wonder, how many more of these cases do we have to have before the Supreme Court just gets tired of it and passes a nationwide ruling?
I wonder, how many more of these cases do we have to have before the Supreme Court just gets tired of it and passes a nationwide ruling?
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Either rights are never a federal issue...
Or all rights are a federal issue.
Read the 9th Amendment, the one everyone skips over in order to rush to the 10th and trade 1 tyranny for 50 tyrannies.
If we could rely on SCOTUS, legislature and executive to throw the religion of equality in the toilet where it belongs, and use rational, sane, reason, there would be no issue, period.
Unfortunately, because we can't rely on that, we have this battle on our hands.
It's the left who made it a federal issue, for the purpose of destroying American culture.
ALL CC LAWS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Unlike the 1st Amendment, the 2nd is an absolute:
"...The right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" - 2ND
"Congress shall make no law respecting..." 1ST
The 1st explicit restricts Congress, the 2nd restricts EVERYBODY.
By a non-issue, I mean that it is not the province of the Feds or for that matter even the states. Marriages can be performed by those qualified to do so. If it is not recognized by the gov(s) that can be rectified with a will or other legal documents. Gay marriage is neither a life or death, nor an economic situation. If legislators want to use their time wisely, they should focus on those more imperative issues. Let's leave marriage, gay or otherwise up to the two people involved and the business of governing to those elected to do just that and that only.
The question is more one of how any change to society gets effected and who has a say in the process. To that end, I'm with Robbie - because the Federal Government has no enumerated power to regulate marriage, it should keep its hands off - including the Federal Court system.
Yes, I understand that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to arbitrate disputes between the states, but that is not what it has been doing. The Federal Courts have been assuming a responsibility to rule on a matter where they themselves have no jurisdiction - not to mention invalidating the duly passed laws of an individual state.
2) You should read my statement again. I said that this spending (deficit) is taking the place of future spending. Thus, we won't have the money in the future to spend as we will be paying off the debts being created today.
There, FIFY.
Biology does make mistakes, but rational people don't insist that they are not mistakes. Lactose Intolerance, allergies, cleft palates, sickle-cell anemia, these are caused by biology, but they are not "natural".
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Actually no, you didn't fix it for me, you just denied scientific evidence. Sexual orientation is controlled by biology, which means it must be subject to mutation and deviation, just like every other aspect of biology.
As for all those other things, actually yes, I would say they are all natural, as well. Abnormal, sure, but not unnatural. There is absolutely nothing "unnatural" about genetic mutations. In fact, nothing could be more natural. Mutation is the fundamental key to evolution. Without it, life could not exist. Just because a particular character trait is uncommon, that doesn't make it unnatural. That which is uncommon is every bit as much a product of nature as that which is common. The common and the uncommon are both controlled by nature, and are both derived from it.
"I don't really have a word for 'unnatural.' I say, 'if nature permits it, it is natural. If nature doesn't permit it, you can't do it.' You may not be familiar with the fact that nature allows that, but the fact of your unfamiliarity doesn't make it unnatural."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
I believe that this is why government spending doesn't increase the turnover of money. They deflated the value to something earned to get it and often give it to those who have not exchanged the value of their labor or mind to get it.
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