Discussion: What's Important To Know About The SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Hearing

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IF all they do is rule that every state must recognize a marriage (same-sex or not) entered into in another state, then they pretty much put the kibosh on the bans because they then become pretty useless. All they have to do is uphold Loving v Virginia.

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Not ONLY wiLL gaY MArry destrOY tradiTIONAL maRRY but IT wILL caUSE EPIC divORCes LIke MINE AND KIDs WHO wILL Be REcrUITed IN The gaY LIFestyLE sINCE GAYs CAN’t HAVe CHILdren. SODOM and GOMorrah!1!!!one!!!1!!!

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I hope I live long enough to see all the social conservatives 50 years from now, when gay marriage is a long-settled and accepted issue in this country, pretending that conservatism has always been for gay marriage, and it was really they all along who were the gay rights pioneers.

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That court's ruling was the only one to uphold gay marriage since the high court's 2013 decision partially striking down the federal gay marriage ban.

For Christ’s sake, Daniel, get your facts straight. First of all, you mean “uphold gay marriage bans”, not “uphold gay marriage”.

Second, Section 3 of DOMA wasn’t a “federal gay marriage ban”. It simply prohibited the federal government from recognizing legal same-sex marriages for the purposes of any federal benefits:

Section 3. Definition of marriage
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

This does not prohibit same-sex marriage so it can’t be a “ban”. The federal government doesn’t issue marriage licenses. This law simply prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages for any federal purpose.

Sloppy writing indicates sloppy thinking.

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I think the more interesting result fifty years down the road is that progressives of today may be the social conservatives of tomorrow.

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it certainly has happened before

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