Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Supreme Court Speaks: DOMA is dead and Prop 8 goes away

Well hopefully this whole issue gets swept away so it doesn't haunt the GOP going forward.

The decision was 5-4, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. It said that the law amounted to the "deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment." 

In a separate case, the court ruled that it could not take up a challenge to Proposition 8, the California law that banned gay marriage in that state. That decision means that gay marriage will once again be legal in California. 

That decision was also 5-4, written by Chief Justice John Roberts. 

The ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act means that the federal government must recognize the gay marriages deemed legal by the states — 12 plus the District of Columbia, before the California case was decided. 

I no longer have any problem with gay marriage. If there is a clause that exempts religious institutions from performing them on a separation of church and state grounds then I have no problem with it. In fact if you are a freedom loving GOPer you should be cool with it. It gives gay people the freedom to marry whatever person they want to. I don't care about some other person getting married. Their lives don't affect mine at all.

The whole slippery slope argument can be done away with as well. If some guy wants to marry his dog or three people want to get married then deny that. Stop the egregious stuff and everything should run smoothly. Marriage is pretty much a tax thing anyway in the eyes of state. If churches don't have to perform them because of their beliefs then it should be okay.

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