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Seeing as our States and Constitution based on nearly 500 years of Anglo Saxon law, marriage licenses were pretty much codified from the beginning, in state Constitutions and State Codes (laws).
Sure, but that is by statute.
Statutes can be overturned.
A state is not required to grant issue a marriage license, and it is certainly possible that some state may in the future, decide that it will no longer do so, which makes the claim that gay marriage is a "civil right" rather silly.
Why not simply get government out of the marriage business? Let's acknowledge contracts of commitment, which can be entered into by anybody, and which would be enforceable by the courts?
Each time Harrier submits this common sense solution to the controversy, the gay marriage supporters reject it.
Why?
Because they aren't concerned about "civil rights" - that is just a smoke screen.
What they want is the "legitimacy" that the use of the term marriage provides them - they want forced acceptance of their lifestyle and gay sex.
and why would a state do so? So that they make all couples in their, not recognized legally as being married? That's ludicrous.
Oh, and Let's not forget the money they earn for each license that they'll be losing.
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A state is not required to grant issue a marriage license, and it is certainly possible that some state may in the future, decide that it will no longer do so, which makes the claim that gay marriage is a "civil right" rather silly.
As defined by their codes and Constitutions, states have to grant marriages licenses to lawfully married couples.
Marriage is marriage. There is no 'gay marriage' anymore.
And marriage as stated by the USSC is a basic civil right of man..
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Why not simply get government out of the marriage business? Let's acknowledge contracts of commitment, which can be entered into by anybody, and which would be enforceable by the courts?
Codes can be overturned by enacting new statutes and constitutions can be amended.
marriage is one that will never be overturned or enacted as the FEDERAL govt relies on those marriage licenses to proclaim that a couple IS actually married.
and in less than 50 years, yes 50, every state will.
USSC says you're full of it.
haha. I will be dead by then. I can move around until then to avoid the huge tax increases the gays are causing.
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