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Marriage and Self-Government
National Review Online, by Editorial

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Posted By:MissMolly, 12/10/2012 5:15:54 AM

On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments in two cases that are at the center of the same-sex-marriage controversy. One concerns the power of people in the states to govern themselves on the question, the other the complementary power of Congress to define “marriage” for purposes of federal law. At issue in both cases is whether courts should even be hearing them, because there are knotty questions of standing (and also of what should happen to lower-court rulings if the Court rules that parties did not have standing).

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Judith, 12/10/2012 7:37:41 AM     (No. 9057313)

Roberts will side with the other liberals on the bench and further erode, if not destroy, the U.S. Constitution. There is a rogue regime in power now and they have quite a long wish list.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 12/10/2012 8:35:52 AM     (No. 9057406)

FTA-

Should the American people ultimately decide to take this course — an unwise one, but one that the Constitution certainly allows — then they may democratically decide to repeal this protective federal legislation. But it is not the place of judges to decide for them, or to force the issue.

Merits aside, it´s a ´State´s Rights´ issue.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Salt5792, 12/10/2012 10:27:42 AM     (No. 9057610)

Homosexual behavior is a depraved behavioral choice. Government should never do anything to enable depravity.


Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley, 12/10/2012 12:29:12 PM     (No. 9057812)

Marriage is a religious matter, best left to the doctrines of the churches involved. It should not be a government concern, especially not a federal government concern.


Reply 5 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 12/10/2012 12:39:08 PM     (No. 9057830)

@#1: I agree. We are witnessing a rogue government. It has become fashionable to ignore or laugh at the Constitution.

@#4: I agree that marriage is a religious matter but remember what has happened to the Church regarding contraceptives. Also, I wonder if Muslims will adhere to HHS contraceptive mandates.



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