Freewill
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The fact that it was a man and a woman is irrelevant. The point that Loving, like a number of other cases established that fact that there are limits to states rights in matters of marriage. The Constitution matters. You can agree that Loving was an appropriate decision, but that same sex marriage is strictly a state matterHow is it clearly a states right? Did you read my OP? Do you think that Loving was a bad decision too?It will be interesting to hear the convoluted logic that the SCOTUS will use when the interfere with what is clearly a states right. I am sure that once again they will tell us something doesn't mean what it says they will tell us what it means in context, their context.
Why do you quote Loving? It was a decision between a man and a woman. And there is no equivalence between a gay and being black.
Where is marriage mentioned in the COTUS?
If the SCOTUS rules as I know they will rule, then there is, in my opinion, no limit on who marries. Sister/brother, son/daughter, mother/son. How can you limit any of those?.
Well you are welcome to your opinion- but there is absolutely no evidence to support that opinion. Gays have been marrying in Massachusetts for over 10 years- and yet still sisters and brothers are not getting legally married. Incestuous marriage is a completely different issue- as different as gay marriage was from mixed race marriage- each has to be argued on its own merits.
What it boils down to is this: marriage is a right- repeatedly confirmed by the Supreme Court. States can deny that right- but only if the State can provide a demonstrable justification for denying the right. So far states have not been able to make an argument as to how denying same gender couples their marriage right serves some legitimate state interest.
It is a right between a man and a woman as has been ruled by the SCOTUS. Maybe incestuous marriages have not happened in Mass. but I don't see how it could be stopped if someone wanted to argue the case. And it will come to that. It will come to that for the same reasons that gay say they want to marry, economics.