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Judge strikes down Michigan's ban on gay marriage
DETROIT — In a historic ruling that provided a huge morale boost to the gay-rights movement, a federal judge Friday struck down Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage, making it the 18th state in the nation to allow gays and lesbians to join in matrimony just like their heterosexual counterparts.
That makes six different states with court rulings against gay marriage bans. Ironically Michigan is probably the most liberal of the bunch. It puts huge pressure on the Supreme Court to act on all these rulings. I'd say by the end of next year we're going to see national gay marriage.
From the same pressure, but to the contrary, I say that by the end of next year we won't see an overturning of Windsor so soon. SCOTUS is reticent to overturn its own decisions so quickly, and states will be affirmed as the "unquestioned authority" via their "consensus" on gay marriage once again.
Read Windsor. You really should before you speak on the topic of the next Ruling on gay marriage. When you understand the Court does not like to overturn itself so rapidly, if nothing else just from a credibility standpoint, you will understand that their determination on the state's role in approving or disapproving gay marriage is pivotal.
They brought up Loving v Virginia and denied gay marriage nationally anyway. Said it was up to each state's broad consensus to decide. That's why Windsor won against DOMA. There's your sign...
Also according to Windsor, denying [or approving] gay marriage via broad consensus by a state is its right retroactive to the founding of the country. Ergo, no same-gendered marriage performed in any judicial-activism "overturned" state has been legal gay marriage. There are rules in the appelate system. One of them is that no lower court may defy the Supreme Court's Ruling, or be not in line with it.
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