Supreme Court rules states must allow same-sex marriage

[bowens44 213]

An unfortunate way to accomplish what should have been done through legislation, but we are there. Congratulations to those affected by this decision.

Legislation would

have been the wrong way to do it. Legislation can be reversed easily this can not.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

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 put this through my 'bigot to English' translator, paragraph by paragraph.

"Now, that picture makes me uncomfortable due its display of support for a cause I find personally repulsive. I think that the capitol has forgotten that they represent my nation, by which I mean only those that I agree with personally, a fact they can only disprove through use of the colours of our flag.

I always disliked President Obama and I like to equate my dislikes, so I can only assume that the good President belongs to a group which it is socially acceptable for me to hate. I find his wife unattractive as she does not have delicate and petite Asian features. She is only as hot as Laverne Cox and so only approximately three quarters of the American population can polish the woodwork to her image.

As people who have espoused similar destructive beliefs to my own have made it difficult for the President of my good nation to accomplish anything but by executive order, I can only assume that the problem lies not in the disrespect that myself and my like-minded fellows show to the highest office in our nation, but is in fact due to the President's personal shortcomings.

Untranslatable ridiculousness occurred between my hands and the computer."

Edited June 27, 2015 by Penguin_ie

[zuluweta 250]

Legislation would

have been the wrong way to do it. Legislation can be reversed easily this can not.

Don't forget that the Republicans in the states kept passing these constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage. They purposefully made it difficult to reverse these anti-gay bans in the states. It took the Supreme Court to put these stinking so-called representatives of the people in check with their tyranny of the majority. The court did its job properly and adhered to the U.S. Constitution by providing the check and balance it's required to do as the 3rd co-equal branch in this constitutional republic.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Penguin_ie

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Wow. Nice hate speech. Grats on being you.

It's been a tough week for him.

[Pitaya 2,576]

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Edited June 27, 2015 by Pitaya

[Penguin_ie 5,984]

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[zuluweta 250]

"It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full Constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did." - Stephen Colbert on the SCOTUS Obergefell ruling

[zuluweta 250]

Obama just won same-sex marriage and Affordable Care at the Supreme Court, yet right wingers believe he is going down? *snicker*

I can't wait for the infighting and mudslinging between the Republican 'presidentiables' to begin. The pop and popcorn are ready on my side.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Legislation would

have been the wrong way to do it. Legislation can be reversed easily this can not.

A very ends-justifies-the-means way of thinking.. Why have a constitution or legislation at all? If we are going to ignore the constitution and states rights when we feel society isn't moving along at the pace we like and let nine people make all the tough decisions for us why even bother?

I may have to admit it is a necessary evil at times but that much power in the hands of a very few unelected lifetime people - that is going to create a problem somewhere in the future.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Who ignored the Constitution? I mean aside from a couple of asshat county clerks in Texas?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

A very ends-justifies-the-means way of thinking.. Why have a constitution or legislation at all? If we are going to ignore the constitution and states rights when we feel society isn't moving along at the pace we like and let nine people make all the tough decisions for us why even bother?

I may have to admit it is a necessary evil at times but that much power in the hands of a very few unelected lifetime people - that is going to create a problem somewhere in the future.

Part of the problem with the bolded is an electoral and legislative system that operates in such a way that the will of the majority of Americans is neither represented nor possible to follow through on. Perhaps democracy will work right once electoral reform becomes a priority of the people.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Part of the problem with the bolded is an electoral and legislative system that operates in such a way that the will of the majority of Americans is neither represented nor possible to follow through on. Perhaps democracy will work right once electoral reform becomes a priority of the people.

The bigger issue is that certain guarantees are provided in the Constitution to ensure that the majority cannot simply roll over the minorities. This is essentially what happened here, the majorities in several states had rolled over the rights of same sex couples. They don't get to do that. And the SCOTUS cleared that up.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

The bigger issue is that certain guarantees are provided in the Constitution to ensure that the majority cannot simply roll over the minorities. This is essentially what happened here, the majorities in several states had rolled over the rights of same sex couples. They don't get to do that. And the SCOTUS cleared that up.

Well yes, but for some reason no matter how many times I say that minority rights should not be decided by majority votes, people just keep going BUT THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LEGISLATIVE DECISION!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Well yes, but for some reason no matter how many times I say that minority rights should not be decided by majority votes, people just keep going BUT THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LEGISLATIVE DECISION!

I know. They have a hard time with that equal protection clause.

[@UrtheOne 0]

Sodom and Gomorrah is back again.. so sad to the ones who agree,practice and legalized it..

Edited June 28, 2015 by @UrtheOne