Supreme Court finds constitutional right to gay marriage

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Supreme Court finds constitutional right to gay marriage
Liz Goodwin and Meredith Shiner  June 26, 2015
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/supreme-court-finds-universal-right-to-gay-122495807066.html

  "Watch the video above for Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric's
   interview with Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff at the heart of the
   landmark Supreme Court case that today made gay marriage legal in the
   United States.

   
    The Supreme Court has found a constitutional right to same-sex
   marriage, striking down bans in 14 states and handing a historic
   victory to the gay rights movement that would have been unthinkable
   just 10 years ago.
   
    Anthony Kennedy, a conservative justice who has broken with his
   ideological colleagues to author several decisions expanding rights for
   LGBT people, again sided with the court's four liberals to strike down
   the state bans. The 5-4 majority ruled that preventing same-sex people
   from marrying violated their constitutional right to due process and
   equal protection under the 14th Amendment and that the states were
   unable to put forth a compelling reason to withhold that right from
   people.
   
   "It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the
   idea of marriage," Kennedy wrote of same-sex couples. "Their plea is
   that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find
   its fulfillment for themselves."
   
   "They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," he continued. "The
   Constitution grants them that right."
   
    The United States is now just the 21st country in the world to allow
   same-sex marriage in every jurisdiction.
   
   President Barack Obama, responding publicly at the White House to
   Supreme Court decisions for the second consecutive day, heralded the
   landmark decision, stating that justices definitively "reaffirmed that
   all Americans are entitled to equal protection under the law."
   
   "Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle that we are all created
   equal. The project of each generation is to bridge the meaning of those
   founding words with the realities of changing times — a never-ending
   quest to ensure those words ring true for every single American.
   Progress on this journey often comes in small increments," Obama said.
   "Sometimes there are days like this when that slow steady effort is
   rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt."

   

   Supporters of gay marriage and LGBT cheer outside the Supreme Court
   after the justices ruled that gay marriage is a constitutional right in
   Washington, DC. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)

   
   Obama, who did not publicly support marriage equality when he first ran
   for the White House in 2008, touted his endorsement for same-sex
   marriage in his second campaign as well as the administration's repeal
   of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in 2011 as markers of
   progress for gay rights under his watch.
   
   Chief Justice John Roberts read a stinging dissent from the bench as
   Kennedy sat beside him, his hand on his chin. Roberts wrote that the
   decision showed "disrespect" for the democratic process and that the
   American people should be able to decide for themselves whether they
   want to accept this huge social change. "Five lawyers have closed the
   debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of
   constitutional law," Roberts wrote. "Stealing this issue from the
   people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a
   dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept."
   
   Roberts told same-sex couples they could "celebrate today's decision,"
   even though he disagreed with it so strongly — but reminded them that
   they should not celebrate the U.S. Constitution. 
   
   "Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity
   for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the
   availability of new benefits," he wrote. "But do not celebrate the
   Constitution. It had nothing to do with it."

   
   Slideshow: Supreme Court makes gay marriage the law of the land >>>
   
   Despite Roberts' harsh words, people in the courtroom were all smiles
   as they poured out onto the steps after the decision. Some wiped tears
   from their eyes. A teeming crowd gathered outside, chanting and
   celebrating.
   
    In oral arguments last April, Kennedy expressed reservations about
   changing the traditional definition of marriage to include LGBT people
   and seemed to entertain the argument that the court should allow the
   American public to continue debating the relatively new concept.
   
    "The word that keeps coming back to me in this case is millennia," he
   said then, referencing the amount of time societies had considered
   marriage to be only between a man and a woman.
   
    But Kennedy was swayed by the fact that hundreds of thousands of
   married same-sex couples already exist and that they — and their
   children — are being treated differently by the law when they move to a
   state that doesn't recognize their union. In his majority opinion,
   which surely will cement his reputation as a champion for gay rights,
   Kennedy writes of the "urgency" of gay couples' claims, and concludes
   it is wrong to allow them to be discriminated against any longer.
   
   It's clear the court is deeply divided over the decision. In another,
   even more stinging dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that he would
   "rather hide his head in a bag" than join the majority opinion. He
   mocked the first line of the opinion ("The Constitution promises
   liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain
   specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define
   and express their identity.") as sounding like the message in a fortune
   cookie.
   
   The decision came just two years after the Supreme Court ruled that the
   federal government could no longer refuse to recognize married same-sex
   couples who lived in the handful of states that had legalized their
   unions. That decision, also written by Kennedy, caused a cascade of
   lower court decisions striking down state same-sex marriage bans, and
   now 36 states allow same-sex marriage. Public opinion on gay marriage
   has changed at lightning speed as well: 60 percent of Americans support
   it, compared with just 37 percent 10 years ago.
   
    This transformative opinion will most likely continue the trend toward
   greater acceptance of LGBT people around the country, as the highest
   court of the land has ruled that same-sex unions are legitimate and
   lawful everywhere.

   

   Supporters of gay marriage rally after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
   that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry
   at the Supreme Court in Washington. (Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

   
   Even with the landmark decision, however, support for gay marriage has
   been almost nonexistent among elected Republican officials, whose
   positions on the issue likely will not change overnight. To date, no
   major Republican presidential candidate has endorsed marriage equality.
   Many 2016 GOP candidates even struggled with the question of whether or
   not they would attend a gay wedding.
   
    Despite public opposition, many Republican operatives privately have
   suggested that court rulings favorable to gay marriage are a blessing
   in disguise for GOP politicians. With the judicial system expanding gay
   rights, the courts have eased the burden on the legislative and
   executive branches, removing pressure for them to act proactively on
   marriage equality policy.
   
   Statements released from 2016 presidential contenders in the moments
   after the decision were all summarily against the Court's decision, but
   they varied widely in tone. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for example,
   called for a Constitutional amendment to "reaffirm the ability of the
   states to continue to define marriage" and overwrite the Supreme
   Court's ruling. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee repeatedly called
   the decision "judicial tyranny," saying it "will prove to be one of the
   court's most disastrous decisions." Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, on
   the other hand, issued a much more tepid response.
   
   "Guided by my faith, I believe in traditional marriage. I believe the
   Supreme Court should have allowed the states to make this decision. I
   also believe that we should love our neighbor and respect others,
   including those making lifetime commitments," the statement read. "In a
   country as diverse as ours, good people who have opposing views should
   be able to live side by side. It is now crucial that as a country we
   protect religious freedom and the right of conscience and also not
   discriminate."
   
    Though Republicans seem divided on how to actually oppose Friday's
   ruling, the opinion is a big win for the Obama administration, which is
   already flying high after the Supreme Court batted down a potentially
   fatal challenge to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. The president
   came out in favor of same-sex marriage in 2012.
   
    Friday's ruling also could have a big effect on religious institutions
   that have maintained their opposition to same-sex marriage. Religious
   schools that refuse to provide housing for same-sex couples could face
   lawsuits and lose their tax-exempt status, for example. (Religious
   clergy will not have to marry same-sex couples, however.) Some states
   will most likely respond to this ruling by attempting to pass
   legislation to exempt people who oppose same-sex marriage on religious
   grounds, such as the controversial Indiana law that passed in March.
   
    The gay rights movement, meanwhile, will move on to employment
   discrimination. Activists want a federal law that forbids
   discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation.
   
    Gay and lesbian couples will be able to marry immediately in the four
   states named in the case — Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan.
   There may be a delay of a few days or weeks for same-sex marriage to be
   legal in the remaining states with bans, since lower courts will have
   to apply the opinion to them."

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

Michael K.

People who love each other can now live in peace and security, and have normal lives.  Yay!  But there is more to it than that.  For while that may be the aspirations of many earnest and otherwise normal people who are born feeling and acting homosexual, there is quite another angle to consider.  And that is the historical occurance of forced marriage, especially of child brides, and there is no reason to believe that homosexuality in all its varying manifestations wouldn't have something quite similar, which now can occur at the age of consent, which is varying state to state but in some states as young as fourteen with the parents (or more disturbingly an orphanage's) consent.  So an old pervert who is a mafiosi can get a sex slave for homosexual enjoyment, sold by his parents (or guardians) as young as fourteen.  Now this is "legal", not in the sense that slavery isn't illegal, but if unproven as such it can now go forward in the public square as a legally protected arrangement.  And marriage is almost ultimate control if a great asymmetry in power and status exists in the relationship.

Now, another problem in the comparison of a homosexual vs heterosexual child marriage is that heterosexual child marriages can be socially risky, because of the obvious perversity.  But with homosexual child marriages we almost have an apples to oranges comparison.  Imagine the accusation of perversion against a mature man and a teenage boy, or a mature woman and a teenage girl.  It's already perverted against nature to begin with, so common sense is challenged to argue perversion without then being called bigotry.  In essence, perversion once it enters is a slippery eel to catch. 

Now take the examples we have where courts have legally recognized the alleged homosexuality of children.  In a corrupt world, homosexually desirable children could be administratively recruited to be legally recognized as homosexual.  After that, thanks to the new laws, all kinds of lobbying could result in a separate gender track in school to keep them locked in.  The purpose of the whole thing is that implicitly, homosexuals have always had to recruit since they rarely reproduce.  This law is a step towards making the process of securing homosexual supply for older narcissistic perverts a new feature of public life, taking up space formally devoted to the development of the natural reproductive family.

Michael K.

Example of the above:




Judge Reduces Jail Term For Abuser Of 6 Year Old, Says Kid Was Used To It
The Young Turks 15,538 views

Published on Jun 27, 2015"A convicted child sex offender's prison sentence in Argentina was cut nearly in half — from six years to three years and two months — because judges said the six-year-old victim was "used to" being abused.

The ruling was recently made public by a local television news station and has since caused uproar, particularly among LGBT advocates who say the ruling essentially casts blame on the victim because of his perceived sexual orientation.

Mario Tolosa, manager of a soccer team for children in the neighborhood of Vicente López in the Buenos Aires province, was originally sentenced in April 2012. The victim, whose identity has not been released due to his age, was 6 years old when Tolosa took him to a restroom during a soccer match and molested him. When the child got home, he told his grandmother what happened, and she reported it to the police." *


Becca Frucht (http://www.twitter.com/beccafrucht) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss on The Young Turks. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.


*Read more here http://www.buzzfeed.com/marianamarcaletti/argentina-judges-reduce-jail-term-for-child-sex-abuser-say-v#.woyNWdMqAV

Christopher Marlowe

A law that is against the natural law is not a law.
Marriage is between a man and woman. Any other pairing is sterile. The law does not change this.
Homosexual pairing is against the natural law. This sort of rampant homosexuality happens right before a society heads into the toilet. 
I believe we are circling the drain.

The boy buggerer in the other story needs to be executed.
And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
    Infinite riches in a little room

Michael K.

#GoingDutch. Circling the drain?  See where else this Brave New World is smashing down existing barriers to "human rights", and doing such a service to 'the planet' in the process:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141564/Belgian-doctors-healthy-woman-green-light-die-euthanasia-suicidal-thoughts.html

QuoteBelgian doctors are planning to kill a perfectly healthy 24-year-old woman by euthanasia because she is suffering from 'suicidal thoughts'.

It is estimated that five people a day in Belgium die with the assistance of doctors, ranging from those with terminal illness to others with chronic, but not life threatening ailments...

In 2003 Belgium was the second country in the world to legalise euthanasia after Holland liberalised the law a year earlier, becoming the first country since Nazi Germany to permit the practice.

Over the past decade the numbers of Belgians dying by euthanasia has crept up incrementally...

Last year Nancy Verhelst, 44, a transsexual, was also killed by euthanasia after doctors botched her sex change operation, leaving her with physical deformities she felt made her look like a 'monster'...

The study found, however, that many GPs are killing their patients without consent and that lack of consent may be more common than officially-approved deaths.

'Given that ending patients' lives without request is more common than euthanasia, it is suggested to urge the Belgian medical profession to put this issue high on its agenda,' ...


So there, if you find out later in life that being made into a sex object for perverted homosexual use makes you feel depressed, the beloved state can offer a compassionate solution. Besides, the world is overpopulated. (sarcasm)


Ognir

Those Muslim countries will have to change their laws and allow the sodomites and other weird  mixes to have their way

Only a question of time

<:^0
Most zionists don't believe that God exists, but they do believe he promised them Palestine

- Ilan Pappe


Ognir

Most zionists don't believe that God exists, but they do believe he promised them Palestine

- Ilan Pappe

maz

So I have been posting in the comment sections of Yahoo news items quite freely for about a year now with no problems with censorship. About a month ago, I realized that Yahoo started censoring certain posts of mine regarding same-sex marriages; probably because I had been posting them frequently.

Then just yesterday, Yahoo posted this article Arnold Schwarzenegger Shuts Down A Homophobic Troll In The Best Possible Way.

I wrote up a post on some info I found about Schwarzenegger's alleged ties to wealthy homosexuals in his early days of bodybuilding and posted it. It immediately disappeared. I kept re-wording the post and it kept getting deleted. I finally found the key words/phrases that Yahoo was not allowing to go through:

"Schwarzenegger," "Obama," and "marriage is between a man and a woman."

I was finally able to get pass the censors with something like "Governor of California previous believed differently in 2012"!

It was weird because a lot of other posters seem to have gotten through to post about "Schwarzenegger,"saying that he believed that marriage was between a man and a woman, but they must have put some extra filters on my account.

In another article I was unable to post statistics about black on white crime.

Strangely, comments criticizing Israel are not being censored, and the most critical comments are getting the most thumbs up while commentors are directly calling out the habarats and flooding them out. At least that's a good sign.

What seems to be the case now is that there is a monumental effort being used to promote this race and homosexual agenda. It is a MASSIVE propaganda operation.

And the whining and complaining from the homosexual community isn't going to stop at same-sex marriage. Here's what's on the horizon, with the integration of transgenders being at the top of the agenda, starting with getting them into public bathrooms.

Quote

The LGBT community will still be fighting battles for decades -- while facing continued discrimination (The Gay Agenda)
Here Are A Few Of The Things The LGBT Community Will Still Be Fighting For After Marriage (The Gay Agenda)
Huffington Post
Paige Lavender - Posted: 05/22/2015 7:33 am EDT

Workplace discrimination
Lack of gender-neutral restrooms in public places
Gay conversion therapy
Housing discrimination
Acceptance in sports, politics, entertainment, business and more
Restrictions on gay men giving blood
Health risks, and education about how to lower them
Jury selection
Transgender military service
Youth homelessness
Adoption, custody, surrogacy and other parenting issues
Discrimination of youth in foster care
Placement and treatment of trans people in prisons and immigrant detention centers
Discrimination in jails and prisons
Suicide

yankeedoodle

#9
QuoteWhat seems to be the case now is that there is a monumental effort being used to promote this race and homosexual agenda. It is a MASSIVE propaganda operation. 

Here's an ominous thought.  Perhaps this is all part of a plan to put that faggot Lindsey Graham in the White House.   Remember how this faggot joked that, if he was elected, his entire cabinet would be jews?  And, of course, this fag-boy friend of insane John McCain is itching to bomb Iran, and probably Russia, China, and whoever the jews tell him to bomb.

And, what better way to "heal" the post-Charleston and post-Confederate flag pain than to have this South Carolina fag-boy renounce the Confederate flag and plead for black/white unity.  After the "post-racial" President Obama, what better than to have a "post-racial-divide" from-the-south President Graham, who, as an added bonus, is a faggot, and, also, a faggot who, just to show he isn't "weak", is going to fucking bomb and bomb and bomb.




Michael K.

#10
#GoingDutch.  Everyone in favor of sodomy and militarism, say "Seig Heil."



Yah, Linsey Graham likely solution to Hegelian problem-reaction pilpul.
What about a Job Bush - Linsey Graham ticket?

yankeedoodle

Montana polygamist applies for marriage license, cites same-sex ruling
http://rt.com/usa/271387-montana-polygamist-marriage-license/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Quote...critics of the decision, including Chief Justice John Roberts, argue that the broad ruling could lead to the legalization of polygamy.

The majority opinion "offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not," Roberts wrote in his dissent. "Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world."   

Michael K.

Quote"Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world."

Indeed. In fact, polygamy seems downright wholesome comparatively.  The horse is out of the barn now, so to speak.

yankeedoodle

Here is what is, apparently, a well known 1969 memo in this a jew, Jaffe, proposes that faggotism be encouraged as a means of population control.
http://www.knowthelies.com/print/8074


Michael K.

#14


THE BELOVED STATE IS THE ONLY FATHER.
(you may now pleasure yourself until your
voluntary military service is required.)


rmstock

Gender-bending Agenda : Good Chance Michelle Obama & Jennifer Aniston Born Men: Satanic-Illuminati Connection[/b]
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 0:17
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/gender-bending-agenda-good-chance-michelle-obama-jennifer-aniston-born-men-satanic-illuminati-connection-3177754.html



This video explains more about the controllers intend on first getting rid of natural motherhood and then all biological life as well as Barack calling his wife Micheal. Take a look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgP4fOSVBlo

The Choice
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=the%20choice%20paul%20romano&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20


Here's the sequel to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPOqVGu1YA


A-List Actors Forced to Wear Dresses; A-List Actresses with Man Hands: Illuminati Origins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPOqVGu1YA&list=PL9F2dbA8GNYWcNuym7Ykv5iM3LLQYj0CB&index=2

Playlist Michelle Obama and others are Men and A-list Male Actors in Drag
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F2dbA8GNYWcNuym7Ykv5iM3LLQYj0CB


99.97% Chance That Joan Rivers Was Murdered for Outing Michelle Obama as a Man http://youtu.be/JEizaTas7ag


Illuminati Puppet Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner Hoax- A-list Actor Marlon Brandon in Drag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-n_D-9Oscc

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778