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10 years earlier, anybody would have laughed if told the Supreme Court would rule as it did. They could, if they wanted, marry a member of the opposite sex. So its not an equal protection issue.
There are simply judges who don't care about the Constitution. They don't care about the legislative process. They simply want a result that they believe is best and implement it. That is dangerous. There are a lot less innocuous issues than gay marriage.
They tried the same BS argument in the Loving case, no? Everybody is "free" to marry their own race, so no problem! Oddly the SCOTUS didn't fall for it then, either.
It does say something about no state denying citizens equal protection of the laws.
Right, it's how you define it. Originally it meant no unequal criminal laws for black citizens. Now it means whatever an activist judge says which could be anything. That anyone could marry the opposite sex is equal application of the law.
They tried the same BS argument in the Loving case, no? Everybody is "free" to marry their own race, so no problem! Oddly the SCOTUS didn't fall for it then, either.
This again. Loving concluded that race was the only factor. Besides, Loving overturned 84 years of Court precedent regarding what constitutes equal application of a law. It's not the same thing as the gay marriage decision that essentially created sexual orientation as a protected classification.
Right, it's how you define it. Originally it meant no unequal criminal laws for black citizens. Now it means whatever an activist judge says which could be anything. That anyone could marry the opposite sex is equal application of the law.
How does a gay couple marrying effect you? Are you against gay people enjoying the same rights and protections as straight people? I don’t get it.
Right, it's how you define it. Originally it meant no unequal criminal laws for black citizens. Now it means whatever an activist judge says which could be anything. That anyone could marry the opposite sex is equal application of the law.
What do you not grasp about sex being a protected class? You cannot legally prohibit one sex from entering into a contract that you allow another sex to enter into. It's really very simple.
This again. Loving concluded that race was the only factor. Besides Loving overturned 84 years of Court precedent regarding what constitute equal application of a law. It's not the same thing as the gay marriage decision that essentially created sexual orientation as a protected classification.
You obviously don't understand the decision that was handed down, because the bold is way off base.
Right, it's how you define it. Originally it meant no unequal criminal laws for black citizens. Now it means whatever an activist judge says which could be anything. That anyone could marry the opposite sex is equal application of the law.
It was applied to Loving v Virginia. Was that ruling incorrect?
Even if you go back to the ruling in the Plessy case the supreme court said that the 14th amendment only applied to political and civil rights. Nothing about criminal law.
You obviously don't understand the decision that was handed down, because the bold is way off base.
There is no basis for homosexuality to be protected by or under any law without assuming it is a protected classification. The constitution doesn't require sexual orientation to be protected either way. It's a legislative option.
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