Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 20573184)

I remember when California had the vote on gay marriage. My house is by one of the main streets leading into my development here, and all night long there was two groups of people putting up their signs about gay marriage and taking down the signs from the other side. This went on all night long until eventually fist fights broke out and the police were called.

It's dumb stupid how some people feel about this. This is the civil rights movement all over again; Twenty or thirty years from now people will look back and this and be ashamed of themselves.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20573194)

Very much not dumb stupid

This was a 5-4 sc split decision. And according to one sc judge,

Justice Scalia in his dissent:

?Today?s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact ? and the furthest extension one can even imagine ? of the Court?s claimed power to create ?liberties? that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention.

?This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves,? Scalia wrote.

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 20572695)

Anyone who refuses to marry a couple should be arrested on the spot and put on trial for violating the constitutional rights of another person.

/done

Originally Posted by Dvae (Post 20573207)

And the lesbian judge?
Should she be in jail too or is this just more of the double standard?

Originally Posted by Grapesoda (Post 20573332)

then you might remember that gay marriage was voted DOWN by popular vote and a judge threw out the vote... right???

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 20573342)

If a lesbian judge refuses to marry straight people, she should go to prison also. Straight couples, gay couples, no difference.

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 20573347)

Just because the majority of people vote on something doesn't make it right or legal.

This is why we have the Supreme Court and other lesser courts - to make decisions on our laws. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is in fact legal. You cannot push your religious beliefs on other members of society.

Originally Posted by SuckOnThis (Post 20572975)

Where's Huckabee and the religious whacko's on this one?


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