Judge Strikes Down Indiana Ban on Gay Marriage (generation, states, homosexuals)
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Good news for all loving couples to be treated equal. Today’s ruling is further proof that bans on marriage equality like the one struck down in Indiana today cannot withstand judicial review.
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Good for another state to strike down the ban during Pride month.
10th Circuit rulings are binding across the entire circuit, which covers not only Utah but New Mexico (where state law already allows same-sex marriage), Oklahoma (where a decision by the 10th Circuit on a similar District Court ruling is imminent, and from the same panel which issued this decision), Idaho (where yet another District Court has overturned a state same-sex marriage ban, though that result has been stayed pending appeals), as well as Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming.
Since last summer's Windsor decision, federal courts have been unanimous in striking down same-sex marriage bans when the constitutionality of those bans have been challenged.
10th Circuit rulings are binding across the entire circuit, which covers not only Utah but New Mexico (where state law already allows same-sex marriage), Oklahoma (where a decision by the 10th Circuit on a similar District Court ruling is imminent, and from the same panel which issued this decision), Idaho (where yet another District Court has overturned a state same-sex marriage ban, though that result has been stayed pending appeals), as well as Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming.
Since last summer's Windsor decision, federal courts have been unanimous in striking down same-sex marriage bans when the constitutionality of those bans have been challenged.
Wow! That's huge news!
"We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right to marry, establish a family, raise children, and enjoy the full protection of a state’s marital laws. A state may not deny the issuance of a marriage license to two persons, or refuse to recognize their marriage, based solely upon the sex of the persons in the marriage union," the appellate court said.
Too bad they stayed the ruling, because who knows when SCOTUS will issue a ruling? It could be a year or more.
But no judge can order heterosexuals to really accept it.
and it never will be.
Who cares. This heterosexual supports equal rights.
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