US Appeals Court rules gay marriage bans in WI and IN unconstitutional.

[CathyInBlue]

US appeals court rules gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana unconstitutional | Fox News

Who's getting gay married among the INGO growd? I wanna be a guest at the first big, gay blow out wedding bash in Indiana.

 

[jamil]

IBMJ

 

[Expat]

I'll pass.

 

[mrjarrell]

It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the court was going to rule this way. Judge Posner had made it pretty clear in his questioning that the defenders of these ludicrous bans didn't have a leg to stand on and that their arguments were nonsensical at best. No doubt they two states will want to keep wasting our tax dollars and continue their defence of these laws all the way up the chain, hoping that the SCOTUS will be populated with people who share their delusions.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the court was going to rule this way. Judge Posner had made it pretty clear in his questioning that the defenders of these ludicrous bans didn't have a leg to stand on and that their arguments were nonsensical at best. No doubt they two states will want to keep wasting our tax dollars and continue their defence of these laws all the way up the chain, hoping that the SCOTUS will be populated with people who share their delusions.

Thought I saw a headline yesterday of a gay marriage ban in some state that was ruled constitutional. I expect them all to eventually be unconstitutional, but a few seem to be slipping through.

 

[mrjarrell]

Thought I saw a headline yesterday of a gay marriage ban in some state that was ruled constitutional. I expect them all to eventually be unconstitutional, but a few seem to be slipping through.

It was Louisiana and the judge will likely be overturned on appeal. He used the ludicrous "tradition" assertion that Wisconsin tried.

 

[MisterChester]

Seems like a time to pass a State Sovereignty Bill like others have done.

A state could pass it but it wouldn't be enforceable at all. Once it's ruled unconstitutional, that's the end of the story.

 

[K_W]

This fight was over from the start, some just won't quit. "Gay marriage" bans have always been unconstitutional, it's just now becoming official. Legislating others lives based on your religious beliefs is not how this country works.

If conservatives continue to pitch fits about this, they will lose the confidence of the younger generations who have grown up around openly gay people without harm.

 

[MisterChester]

US appeals court rules gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana unconstitutional | Fox News

Who's getting gay married among the INGO growd? I wanna be a guest at the first big, gay blow out wedding bash in Indiana.

Will the INGO social statists be in attendance? That'd make a great photo album.

 

[j706]

If someone wants to be a homo then I say knock yourself out. But NO ONE will ever make me think it is OK, cool, acceptable or whatever. It is morally and naturally wrong and no one even needs to tell anyone that it is. Disgusting stuff.

 

[K_W]

If someone wants to be a homo then I say knock yourself out. But NO ONE will ever make me think it is OK, cool, acceptable or whatever. It is morally and naturally wrong and no one even needs to tell anyone that it is. Disgusting stuff.

That's fine you think that, that is your right. It creeps me out too, but it's between consenting adults. No one can punish or discriminate against them for it.

Do gay rights trump private property rights... I don't believe they do. I think the gay rights people will do themselves no good demanding everyone cater to them.

 

[chezuki]

Good.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I think the gay rights people will do themselves no good demanding everyone cater to them.

Except the caterers. There's that whole public accommodation law.

 

[MisterChester]

I think the gay rights people will do themselves no good demanding everyone cater to them.

Catering =/= asking for equal rights

 

[Expat]

Except the caterers. There's that whole public accommodation law.

and here is a cheerleader for enslaving others...

 

[HoughMade]

Seems like a time to pass a State Sovereignty Bill like others have done.

We need something other than the 10th Amendment interpreted according to its original intent?

I've never been a big fan of matters for legislation being turn into Constitutional rights, thereby end-running republican principles...and this is just one more example. Unfortunately, both the left and the right prefer bench-made law when they feel vulnerable in the legislature or at the ballot box.

Well, the state didn't invent marriage, so how it defines it is of little concern to me. Indiana may have to recognize this; I don't.

 

[spec4]

When all states recognize gay marriage will that be the end of it?

 

[zippy23]

Seems like a lot of people on here are for this. What happened to states rights? Marriage is not in the constitution. The states have the RIGHT to decide on this. This is a political issue, the judges who vote either way are doing it based on their political views, not on what is constitutional. Keep in mind that if there are ever a bunch of right wing judges who will vote solely on political views, and they get in power, then the door swings both ways. We should be for what the states want, other than what is given in the constitution. Thats how it was set up, thats what made the country great. Its too bad everything is political

 

[inxs]

This is just the same stuff that hasn't been settled since the 1820's. Are we a group of states bound together for our own good, or are we a group of people under a federal government?

I don't know why they just don't get a federal marriage license. (yeah, I know)

 

[MisterChester]

Seems like a lot of people on here are for this. What happened to states rights? Marriage is not in the constitution. The states have the RIGHT to decide on this. This is a political issue, the judges who vote either way are doing it based on their political views, not on what is constitutional. Keep in mind that if there are ever a bunch of right wing judges who will vote solely on political views, and they get in power, then the door swings both ways. We should be for what the states want, other than what is given in the constitution. Thats how it was set up, thats what made the country great. Its too bad everything is political

A state doesn't have rights, it has powers.