The Supreme Court just hit the pause button on homosexual marriages in Utah. A federal district judge had overruled Utah’s state constitutional ban on homosexual marriage, stating that Utah’s citizens had a federally-protected constitutional right to homosexual marriage if they wanted it. The Supreme Court, in so many words, said “Nuh-uh.”
This decision has left many people puzzled. It had seemed that the Supreme Court was positive about homosexual marriage. Just last year, the Supreme Court decided (in a 5-4 decision) that homosexual marriages sanctioned by states could receive federal tax benefits. So what’s going on here?
What’s going on is that the Supreme Court doesn’t want to make a federal constitutional ruling that would bear down on all the states. At least not until the members of the Supreme Court feel like all the states want it. This is a states’ rights issue. Notice that when the states make decisions, the Supreme Court wants the federal government to uphold those decisions at the federal level. But they aren’t willing to do the reverse on this issue—they aren’t willing to force a federal mandate onto the states. At least, not yet.
I think they’re doing the right thing, and not just because I don’t think homosexual marriage is possible. I think that there is no reason to create more over-arching federal laws for issues that are best left to local governments to sort out.
If a state allows homosexual marriages, homosexuals will move there. Just like potheads will probably flock to Colorado. I don’t have a problem with that really. States’ rights were designed to allow citizens in a particular region to enjoy the broader protections of the central government while largely governing themselves in the more everyday operations of their lives.
Why does anyone have a problem with that? Why is everyone so obsessed with creating laws that apply to everyone’s private lives equally and without any recourse or escape? As John Stuart Mill said of his native England in 1861:
It is but a small portion of the public business of a country which can be well done, or safely attempted, by the central authorities; and even in our own government, the least centralised in Europe, the legislative portion at least of the governing body busies itself far too much with local affairs, employing the supreme power of the State in cutting small knots which there ought to be other and better means of untying. The enormous amount of private business which takes up the time of Parliament, and the thoughts of its individual members, distracting them from the proper occupations of the great council of the nation, is felt by all thinkers and observers as a serious evil, and what is worse, an increasing one.
No doubt. As the United States edges ever closer to an economic, social, political, international abyss, perhaps the Supreme Court has more important things to decide than whether or not to overturn a states’ already established local laws on marriage.
These homo’s are sick bastards and should be destroyed before they infect everyone with there sickness.
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Down with the negro commnist and his followers
SPOT ON EVAN>>>>>>>>>>
All I am going to say is that both are against the word of GOD obama and homo,s they are both mental
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“If a state allows homosexual marriages, homosexuals will move there.” Not so! Some homosexuals may move to those states allowing them to marry, but what is more common is homosexuals going to states that allow them to marry, then returning to their home states and demanding their home state recognize their homosexual “marriage.” As the so-called marriages head for divorce courts across the nation, we will start seeing litigation forcing states that don’t currently recognize homosexual marriage to do so in order for these homosexuals to get their divorce. It won’t be long before the federal government, through the Supreme Court, will force every state to fall in line with the homosexual agenda from top to bottom.
What is wrong with just giving them the right to file for taxes jointly? If someone coughs into their sleeve in your presence, do you go off on a rant about them not be quiet enough?
And what else does the homosexual agenda consist of?
the gay agenda consists of the fight for equality
Damn them!
A broken clock is right twice a day & you’re right that the Supreme Court will have to force every state to recognize gay marriage. We simply cannot have a situation where people are legally married in some states & by the federal government but not in other states.
Variety is the spice of life. What wrong with healthy diversity and places where groups of people can call their own?
Well, of course there is our constitution that gives ALL Americans equal rights.
The federal government has NO business being involved in Any “social issues” let alone making “Laws” regarding them. These issues, like homosexual “marriage” and Abortions, and Healthcare are NONE of the Feds business !
While this socialist government becomes more & more powerful and intrusive into our lives, what we NEED to do is to Get the Government OUT of our personal lives and Out of our States !
They have no Constitutional jurisdiction in these matters and they Must be put back into the place where they Belong Constitutionally……
All of this is a Constitutional Issue and we Have to Use Our Constitution or We Will Lose it !
You Christian fascists used the very same argument against interracial marriage!!!
Thank God for the ruling. State of Utah has declared that some thousand gay marriages are invalid. The homosexual agenda has run roughshod over parent rights, welfare of children, safeguards against abusive and licentious lifestyles, religious liberty, and basic American liberties. The forced imposition of the homosexual agenda against the will of the people must stop. Ex-homosexuals and their organizations coined a term of their own, homofascism, for the harsh tactics and abuse which they have been recipients from homosexual activists and their supporters.