So does this mean that polygamy is now legal too?
Tim-
roflmao
This goes against the wishes of the people. It's like in 2010 when the people reacted to having Obamacare shoved down their throats...too much too soon. There will be backlash in the electorate.
"May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
No, you do not. And nobody cares. I mean, do you care whether random strangers recognize your marriage?
Homosexual relationships aren't being given precedence over your beliefs. That's absurd. You still have your beliefs. You just expressed them right now. Why would you think your religious freedom includes stopping someone else's marriage?
No, it doesn't apply to other types of prohibition. It could theoretically be relevant precedent for other types of prohibition, but it's not some automatic road to children marrying furniture any more than the interracial marriage decision was. Interracial marriage means we have to let children marry furniture, right?
I don't think so at all. In comparison to other groups, I think it's been a relatively quick victory.
Arrogant.
Most Americans are disgusted by gays
What a steaming crock of bull****.
The Constitution says nothing about this topic.
Let's see if you're still so arrogant about it in 2016. It's gonna be a rout.
Ok. So if I open a flower shop and refuse to participate in a gay wedding, I won't be prosecuted? I'm glad that is settled law then.
I think conservatives are going to try and downplay their opposition to same sex marriage or to cover themselves by cloaking the argument in a state's rights style of argument.
It soils the institution of marriage but, more importantly, it solidifies the idea that we're not a democracy....we're lorded over by 5 unelected and robed buffoons who call all the shots.
It's ridiculous and infuriating that Justice Kennedy, by himself, can lord over 350 million people without receiving a single vote
Unless you have support (which you don't) for an Amendment to the Constitution concerning this issue, its over. There is no way to get another case up through the SCOTUS unless the next POTUS simply refuses to obey the law and allow states to refuse to obey this law over a year after it has been recognized in those states. Pretty sure that isn't likely to happen. The POTUS alone, nor Congress can overturn a SCOTUS decision on this. The most they could do would be something close to "jury nullification", but even then it would take some support elsewhere, which isn't really there and is even less likely to be there in a year and a half.
it's not the same. this decision is firmly supported by the fourteenth amendment.
you're actually arguing equivalency between allowing black people to be enslaved and allowing gay marriage to be recognized by the state
Ok. So if I open a flower shop and refuse to participate in a gay wedding, I won't be prosecuted? I'm glad that is settled law then.
Most Americans are disgusted by gays
I'm referring to the existing prohibitions on the number of marriages one is allowed to have and the blood relation restrictions.
Most Americans are disgusted by gays
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