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I don't think it will be a last state, it will eventually make its way to the Supreme Court and all the remaining states with a ban will have it overturned.
This is pretty much what is going to happen, though we might see it be legalized in Texas, and then after that it will be pretty easy to finally get the Supreme Court to do their job and legalize gay marriage.
Sorry Harrier, it is already legal in California, though we all know how much you hate the court system and think their rulings don't count....except for Loving vs Virginia where you somehow think the court system counted that one time. But gays are getting happily married in your fine state.
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No, because those states were violating the civil rights of men and women who wished to marry.
Loving v. Virginia upheld marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Whether or not to redefine marriage, as the gay army wishes to do, should be a state issue per the 10th Amendment.
Better yet, government should get entirely out of the marriage business.
Thats funny, i dont see the word man or woman used in the way you just did.
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Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
Sorry Harrier, it is already legal in California, though we all know how much you hate the court system and think their rulings don't count....except for Loving vs Virginia where you somehow think the court system counted that one time. But gays are getting happily married in your fine state.
Harrier does not hate the court system - he dislikes unconstitutional decisions made by unelected men in black robes.
California has not legalized gay marriage - we are a victim of judicial tyranny.
The "politically appointed jerks" are required to follow the law and understand that the tyranny of the majority should not be imposed on the minority. Further, the opposition has never been able to prove what harm the result of allowing SSM would cause. People cannot pass laws simply because they don't like something that somebody else does, and no other reason. There was a time when the will of the people was Jim Crow laws, not letting women vote, etc. Upholding the Constitution is not a popularity contest for voters to decide, nor do states get to violate the constitutional principle of equal treatment.
According to you the majority is oppressing a minority, but the same claim can be made to justify any overreach of the state.
The Supreme Court will declare all bans unconstitutional, and that will be that.
The hate-filled right-wing ideology will be left licking its wounds.
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