Supreme Court rules states must allow same-sex marriage

[VOL 425]

So six counties, total, out of 254 counties in Texas, is the largest number I can find. Why, I do declare, it does appear that the number of serious objectors in marriage-license-offering Texas government positions is just 2-3% (my calculations get 2.3%, to be precise). They seem to be an extreme minority, just like homosexuals. Surely you support trampling THEIR rights, like you want to trample mine?

Isn't it a glorious day, to wake up knowing that law-breaking bigotry in the state of Texas has dwindled to gay old levels?

I really don't care either way if the made gay marriage legal or non legal, I only see this as a win win for lawyers for more divorces. I think government should stay out of marriage.

I just find it funny Texas passed some loopholes to keep from having to issue gay marriage licenses.

Now you can see why Texas is the envy of the rest of the USA.......

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

I really don't care either way if the made gay marriage legal or non legal, I only see this as a win win for lawyers for more divorces. I think government should stay out of marriage.

I just find it funny Texas passed some loopholes to keep from having to issue gay marriage licenses.

Now you can see why Texas is the envy of the rest of the USA.......

Given that over half of the US population supported making our marriages legal in all 50 states, I don't think Texas IS the envy of the rest of the US.

And if you think the government should stay out of marriage, then I assume that you think that immigration through marriage should be illegal. If not, I'm sure that we could go back further. Perhaps we should have it that a woman's property all goes to her man when she marries. The government had to put an end to that, interfering in the matrimonial union.

[NikLR 13,220]

Yay for equal marriage rights!

I found it humorous the number of people saying they were moving to Canada (or Mexico) because of equal rights. Dude... Canada has supported equal marriage rights for 10 years! Get yer heads out of your buttholes. That's not even going into socialized heathcare and gun laws. Lol! Oh.... its been a lovely day for all.

Apparently the filter didnt catch my word so im changing it myself... fyi

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[decocker 7,198]

So your friends and family are gay or supports gays?

in texas, my friends yes, family i'm not sure.

[decocker 7,198]

I think government should stay out of marriage.

i think there shouldn't be borders.

i dont see either of us getting what we want. but dreams are nice.

[zuluweta 250]

Oh dear. A self proclaimed 'international playboy' grasping at straws to defend his 'right to marry someone of a different race' (permitted via SCOTUS' Loving v. Virginia) while excoriating others' hard-fought right to marry someone of the same sex (permitted now via SCOTUS' Obergrfell v. Hodges). That blind spot is so huge an 18-wheeler can drive through it. Give it up. You lost in the court of public opinion (60% of Americans support same-sex marriage) and you lost again at the Supreme Court.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

In Texas you still can't get married in my city or county of Collin and the the county next to me Denton.

They passed a law last week in Texas if a clerk does not feel it right to issue a same sex license then it's there right.

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20150626-denton-county-clerk-awaits-guidance-fron-da-on-issuing-licenses.ece

Your County and the State of Texas are going to be bankrupt paying for the lawsuit judgments headed their way.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

It's the way it's always been with changes to marriage. There might STILL be state bans on interracial marriage if the Supreme Court hadn't decided Loving.

I believe (or maybe i would hope) that would not be the case though it would have taken a lot longer. There is no denying the positive effect on society for many of the activist decisions. I have some internal conflict on the issue.

I am happy with the outcome.

[Pitaya 2,576]

Another interesting decision in this session from the "shrub"-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts' SCOTUS.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Pitaya

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Didn't know you were a worshiper of the SCOTUS.

Here is a good one from the SCOTUS for you to chew on

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States

I don't worship anyone but there is this pesky old supremacy clause in the US Constitution and because it is there, the remaining bigots in Texas can go an F themselves. They lost and all the last bit of resistance is really just pathetic. And ROFL on your 1857 decision. Long obsolete. Just as the garbage that Texas has just passed. All obsolete, too.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Hard to believe that that's the house that folks like Ted Cruz and The Huck want to move into.

[zuluweta 250]

Regurgitating that ignominious Dred Scott decision just goes to show that the SCOTUS occasionally gets things wrong but it eventually corrects itself.

Way before this same-sex marriage ruling, there was another same-sex marriage case in the early 1970s called Baker v. Nelson. Gay couples lost that one when the case got dismissed. The Obergefell decision legitimizing same-sex marriage as a protected individual right explicitly overrules Baker v. Nelson.

[VOL 425]

Hard to believe that that's the house that folks like Ted Cruz and The Huck want to move into.

Now that picture is pretty ghey. I would like to see the capital in Red/White and Blue instead.

I figured ole Obama might be gay, and if you look at his wife Michelle she has man looks, and looks like she is transgenders.

I guess when your Presidency is going down the toilet you grasp at straws for any thing.

Boom Boom Out Goes the Lights.......

Edited June 27, 2015 by VOL

[Pitaya 2,576]

Now that picture is pretty ghey. I would like to see the capital in Red/White and Blue instead.

I figured ole Obama might be gay, and if you look at his wife Michelle she has man looks, and looks like she is transgenders.

I guess when your Presidency is going down the toilet you grasp at straws for any thing.

Boom Boom Out Goes the Lights.......

I believe that is a picture of the WHITE HOUSE. Or where you speaking about another building?

Edited June 27, 2015 by Pitaya

[NikLR 13,220]

Wow. Nice hate speech. Grats on being you.

Now that picture is pretty ghey. I would like to see the capital in Red/White and Blue instead.

I figured ole Obama might be gay, and if you look at his wife Michelle she has man looks, and looks like she is transgenders.

Edited June 27, 2015 by NLR