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I am a straight-married for 37 years with 3 kids, southern drawl speaking, bourbon swiller, beer guzzler, backer chewin, football lovin, flannel shirt wearin, fishin n huntin lover and Georgia by the grace of God.
I have no problem with gay folk wanting to get married.
Does not affect me in any way.
While I would vote to approve same sex marriage at the state level, I do not see any constitutional right to it. With regards the constitution I have always been a strict constructionist, and am wary of 5 of 9 people being able to create a right out of thin air, mostly because those that create one can limit or destroy one just as easy. Anyone who puts all thier faith in the courts must remember it was the courts that created the civil rights issues of the 50's and 60's with thier terrible plessey v. Fergueson ruling.
We have bypassed the amendment process with judges who legislate rather and adjudicate.
Not what is happening here.
They are ruling if DOMA gives government the right to take rights AWAY.
And it does and if they are strict constitutionalists theywill rule that DOMA does just that.
Those that support DOMA and government laws banning gay marriage support government taking the right away from gays and lesbians to marry each other.
While I would vote to approve same sex marriage at the state level, I do not see any constitutional right to it. With regards the constitution I have always been a strict constructionist, and am wary of 5 of 9 people being able to create a right out of thin air, mostly because those that create one can limit or destroy one just as easy. Anyone who puts all thier faith in the courts must remember it was the courts that created the civil rights issues of the 50's and 60's with thier terrible plessey v. Fergueson ruling.
We have bypassed the amendment process with judges who legislate rather and adjudicate.
Not what is happening here.
They are ruling if DOMA gives government the right to take rights AWAY.
And it does and if they are strict constitutionalists theywill rule that DOMA does just that.
Those that support DOMA and government laws banning gay marriage support government taking the right away from gays and lesbians to marry each other.
I actually hope DOMA gets overturned, but for other reasons. Marriage is a contract managed at the state level, the feds should have nothing to do with it, just as the courts should have nothing to do with it, at any level. It is something for the state legislatures to determine as if proper for thier power to legislate government interactions with its citizens.
Not what is happening here.
They are ruling if DOMA gives government the right to take rights AWAY.
And it does and if they are strict constitutionalists theywill rule that DOMA does just that.
Those that support DOMA and government laws banning gay marriage support government taking the right away from gays and lesbians to marry each other.
I actually hope DOMA gets overturned, but for other reasons. Marriage is a contract managed at the state level, the feds should have nothing to do with it, just as the courts should have nothing to do with it, at any level. It is something for the state legislatures to determine as if proper for thier power to legislate government interactions with its citizens.
Its not that easy. You can't move among states and be married or not married
ALL states will have to honor the marital status issued by other states. You can't say.....We accept heterosexual marriages from NY but not gay marriages
Sooner or later the courts will have to weigh in and every state will have to accept gay marriage whether they issued it or not
Not what is happening here.
They are ruling if DOMA gives government the right to take rights AWAY.
And it does and if they are strict constitutionalists theywill rule that DOMA does just that.
Those that support DOMA and government laws banning gay marriage support government taking the right away from gays and lesbians to marry each other.
I actually hope DOMA gets overturned, but for other reasons. Marriage is a contract managed at the state level, the feds should have nothing to do with it, just as the courts should have nothing to do with it, at any level. It is something for the state legislatures to determine as if proper for thier power to legislate government interactions with its citizens.
Its not that easy. You can't move among states and be married or not married
ALL states will have to honor the marital status issued by other states. You can't say.....We accept heterosexual marriages from NY but not gay marriages
Sooner or later the courts will have to weigh in and every state will have to accept gay marriage whether they issued it or not
If as many people who claimed to not care about gay rights, actually didnt care, gay marriage would be legal by now.
I actually hope DOMA gets overturned, but for other reasons. Marriage is a contract managed at the state level, the feds should have nothing to do with it, just as the courts should have nothing to do with it, at any level. It is something for the state legislatures to determine as if proper for thier power to legislate government interactions with its citizens.
Its not that easy. You can't move among states and be married or not married
ALL states will have to honor the marital status issued by other states. You can't say.....We accept heterosexual marriages from NY but not gay marriages
Sooner or later the courts will have to weigh in and every state will have to accept gay marriage whether they issued it or not
Different states can have different concealed carry rules, and people choose to go or not to go to a given state because of those rules. With marriage, why would one want to move into a state that doesnt want to support gay marriage if you are in one?
For travel purposes, as long as the state recognizes basics like health coverage, and visitiation rights in hospitals, why would they need to give full marriage recognition to visitors?
You believe my family members that happen to be gays and lesbians are morally corrupt and are covering up your bigotry with jelly doughnuts and powdered bull shit.
You clearly stated that homosexuality is depravity.
We are speaking of YOUR bigotry and all you have to come back with is "well, all through history everyone else has persecuted gays more when they had the audacity to come out of the closet " in a further attempt to cloak your bigotry.
And you are sucking at it because it is a milk weak argument if one at all.
Is that all you have? No guts to just admit you do not like gay people, you believe them to be 2nd class immoral citizens and that they are one day, some day going to "swing from the lamp posts" with you there on a front row seat cheering on the executioners?
I would have had an ounce of respect for you then as a testament to your candor and honesty.
I now see your mistake. I do not think that gays and lesbians are morally corrupt. They have an aberration. Those who accept the aberration as normal behavior are morally corrupt. Why do I say they will swing from lamp posts? It is a historical fact that out of all of the civilizations that have normalized homosexual relationships gays were slaughtered when that civilization collapsed. Not one time has the normalcy of homosexuality been passed on to a subsequent civilization. In the case of western civilization it looks like islam will be the replacement. They do like to decorate lamp posts and cranes with bodies.
You have an opinion. You hate gays, think they are degenerate....an aberation
You are free to maintain your hatred and repulsion at gays.....you do not have a right to force government to accept your hatred
Its not that easy. You can't move among states and be married or not married
ALL states will have to honor the marital status issued by other states. You can't say.....We accept heterosexual marriages from NY but not gay marriages
Sooner or later the courts will have to weigh in and every state will have to accept gay marriage whether they issued it or not
Different states can have different concealed carry rules, and people choose to go or not to go to a given state because of those rules. With marriage, why would one want to move into a state that doesnt want to support gay marriage if you are in one?
For travel purposes, as long as the state recognizes basics like health coverage, and visitiation rights in hospitals, why would they need to give full marriage recognition to visitors?
Because the civil code in all the states except Louisiana has the exact same property rights and that is what marriage has in it.
Different states can have different concealed carry rules, and people choose to go or not to go to a given state because of those rules. With marriage, why would one want to move into a state that doesnt want to support gay marriage if you are in one?
For travel purposes, as long as the state recognizes basics like health coverage, and visitiation rights in hospitals, why would they need to give full marriage recognition to visitors?
There are people in this world who still oppose court ordered integration?
You understand that court ordered integration failed don't you? You can support it but that cow has left the barn. Affirmative action failed. We are now into the third generation of affirmative action with no real improvement. In fact blacks are worse off with higher unemployment than if we never had affirmative action.
If you could rewind this movie you would clearly see that Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities started disintegrating when they adopted plans for cout ordered integration.
Sorry to disabuse you of your fuzzy feel good but acceptance and normalization of homosexuality has happened before with always the same result of lots of dead gay people.
I don't know why but it would seem that along with acceptance of homosexuality comes acceptance of all other forms of depravity. What decent people remain just stop caring what happens to degenerates. When some group rises to oppose degeneracy there isn't enough people caring enough to defend them. That seems to be the case in London and Paris where the public is largely not moved to outrage when muslims attack gays.
In America it has been somewhat different. It's self induced disease that brings the big yawn. So far.
You have to prove homosexuality is depravity for any of your claims to have any credibility.
Shame as some do but the fact you claim that bull shit throws the rest out with the bull shit.
You can believe that homosexuality is moral corruption all you want, have at it.
But we will not allow you to push your bull shit on us. We believe that our family members, neighbors and friends that happen to be homosexual are not immoral citizens.
And are offended by your ruthless claims that they are. We just assume you keep your religious beliefs to yourself and if you do not have anything nice to say about folks you do not even know then just keep your pie hole shut.
One day you may come out of your angry, pompous, opinionated and self righteous self.
For the sake of your family I hope you do. Otherwise you are going to grow an old, bitter and angry grump.
Does every state recognize common law marriage? Absolutely not.
Different states can have different concealed carry rules, and people choose to go or not to go to a given state because of those rules. With marriage, why would one want to move into a state that doesnt want to support gay marriage if you are in one?
For travel purposes, as long as the state recognizes basics like health coverage, and visitiation rights in hospitals, why would they need to give full marriage recognition to visitors?
Because the civil code in all the states except Louisiana has the exact same property rights and that is what marriage has in it.
I still don't see why that means the consitution says every state has to allow gay marriage.
If as many people who claimed to not care about gay rights, actually didnt care, gay marriage would be legal by now.
If only there was such a thing as Gay marriage.
Does every state recognize common law marriage? Absolutely not.
Actually they do. Most States do not allow for the assumption of Common Law Marriage under their State law, however they recognize as legally valid legally Common Law Marriages from another State and in addition the federal government recognizes them as valid if entered into in a State that allows for the assumption of Common Law Marriages.
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If as many people who claimed to not care about gay rights, actually didnt care, gay marriage would be legal by now.
If only there was such a thing as Gay marriage.
No state laws have been written based on sexual orientation. The proper term is "Same-sex Civil Marriage" as no State in the union has a test or even asks a question about sexual orientation. So ya, two heterosexuals of the same-sex could get Civilly Married.
And yes, there are a number of States where Same-sex Civil Marriage exists.
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Does every state recognize common law marriage? Absolutely not.
Actually they do. Most States do not allow for the assumption of Common Law Marriage under their State law, however they recognize as legally valid legally Common Law Marriages from another State and in addition the federal government recognizes them as valid if entered into in a State that allows for the assumption of Common Law Marriages.
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In a state that does not allow common law marriage, you cannot enter into a common law marriage.
If only there was such a thing as Gay marriage.
No state laws have been written based on sexual orientation. The proper term is "Same-sex Civil Marriage" as no State in the union has a test or even asks a question about sexual orientation. So ya, two heterosexuals of the same-sex could get Civilly Married.
And yes, there are a number of States where Same-sex Civil Marriage exists.
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Civil marriage isn't quite what gays want.
What they want is the same as they want in the UK, a law mandating that all religious institutions must perform marriage rites. The legal trappings of marriage isn't what they want. They want to debase the religion of others.
Actually they do. Most States do not allow for the assumption of Common Law Marriage under their State law, however they recognize as legally valid legally Common Law Marriages from another State and in addition the federal government recognizes them as valid if entered into in a State that allows for the assumption of Common Law Marriages.
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In a state that does not allow common law marriage, you cannot enter into a common law marriage.
Correct. But if you enter into a Common Law Marriage in a State that does allow a Common Law Marriage - that Civil Marriage (and yes Common Law Marriages are a valid Civil Marriage) is recognized by both the federal government and other states. If you are legally married in Georgia under it's Common Law and move to Virginia (which doesn't allow for the assumption of Common Law Marriages) you are still legally married in Virginia and still legally married for federal purposes.
" 3. Does Virginia have "Common Law Marriages?"
No. A common law marriage is one by agreement of two people who consider themselves married without any formal ceremony or license and hold themselves out as married. Such arrangements are not marriages in Virginia, but they will be recognized here if they were valid in the state where they took place and if they were between people who would have been eligible to marry under Virginia law."
Virginia State Bar -
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Different states can have different concealed carry rules, and people choose to go or not to go to a given state because of those rules. With marriage, why would one want to move into a state that doesnt want to support gay marriage if you are in one?
Because the States themselves have chosen to recognize Civil Marriage from other States. If a State were to choose not to recognize any Civil Marriage performed from another State I suppose that would be Constitutional.
Do you know that except for Civil Marriages based on gender, ALL States recognize ALL other Civil Marriages performed in another State even if it conflicts with that States laws.
For travel purposes, as long as the state recognizes basics like health coverage, and visitiation rights in hospitals, why would they need to give full marriage recognition to visitors?
Let's take Virginia for example, the Constitutional Amendment to the State Constitution bars ANY recognition of both Civil Marriages and Civil Unions. A legally married same-sex couple that travels on vacation to Virginia does not even get the basics recognized. They would not have hospital visitation rights as family, they would no have medical decision making capability as next of kin. In addition, if the couple were the legal parents of the child based on assumed parentage laws of their home state, the non-biological parent would not have the legal status of "parent" here in Virginia.
Of course that's just for visitation, then of course there are people that move here from out of state as a requirement of work. Hampton Roads has major military bases. A female sailor and her wife married and stationed at Naval Base Groten CT who are order to transfer to Naval Base Norfolk VA for example.
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