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Oh, she's just butthurt because she and her husband can no longer rake the money in to "pray the gay away."
Now that gay marriage has more legitimacy, Michelle is probably afraid that her husband is finally going to pack up all of his caftans and leave her for a man.
If you openly support issues that not only contradict His word but mock Him you are without God. If you want to be with God follow His word. If you're offended then change.
What is Up with the weird Capitalization? Is that Some kind of Religious Thing?
Capitalization of both nouns and pronouns that refer to God, has been the common rule in the English language, ever since there had been an English language. It's hardly "weird".
About the only people who don't know that, are those who got their entire education from cartoons and video games, and texting.
So now that they've destroyed the meaning and concept of marriage, they will be able to "marry". A lot like dropping a 2000 lb. wrecking ball on a car before you steal it.
The rediculous divorce rate that straight marriages encur is destroying the concept of marriage and then they have the nerve to have another try at it and then another and another and still get the federal rights and benefits. If your marriage is in trouble because of gays getting married, then it was already in dire straits.
I see that three different threads on three different subjects, got merged into one, on grounds that they were all on the same subject.
That should pretty well kill discussion on all three.
Who wants to search thru 1000-plus posts loking for the one he wanted to reply to?
Precisely. I had a thread discussing the actual legal implications of this ruling - no point of even continuing on this thread. It's just a mess of insults swapping back and forth.
But the 5th only applied because of the conflict between a state's and federal's definition of marriage. SCOTUS declared that states define marriage. With that, the federal definition cannot stand and by virtue of the 5th (conflicting law), DOMA is struck down.
How easy it
is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion
with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status. Consider how easy (inevitable) it is to make the
following substitutions in a passage from today’s opinion
ante, at 22:
“DOMA’s This state law’s principal effect is to identify
a subset of state-sanctioned marriages constitutionally protected sexual relationships, see Lawrence, and
make them unequal. The principal purpose is to impose inequality, not for other reasons like governmental efficiency. Responsibilities, as well as rights,
enhance the dignity and integrity of the person. And
DOMA this state law contrives to deprive some couples married under the laws of their State enjoying
constitutionally protected sexual relationships, but not
other couples, of both rights and responsibilities.”
Or try this passage, from ante, at 22–23:
“[DOMA] This state law tells those couples, and all
the world, that their otherwise valid marriages relationships are unworthy of federal state recognition.
This places same-sex couples in an unstable position
of being in a second-tier marriage relationship. The
differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral
and sexual choices the Constitution protects, see
Lawrence, . . . .”
And it sucks that my thread got combined with this one - too many religious references to this ruling. Would be nice to discuss the LAW and not all the morality based judgements on it.
I agree. I wonder if the mods could separate them again?
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