BoogyMan
10-20-2014, 04:20 PM
The death gasps of the Davis campaign for TX governor is getting absolutely sickening. (http://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-dildos-interracial-marriage-comment/#.VEVi1-y1QzE.twitter)
If you’re a politician who has taken a public position against gay marriage, as Greg Abbott has, there’s a tricky thing you have to do to keep your position cogent. You need an argument for a same-sex marriage ban that doesn’t contradict or aim to invalidate the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia), which struck prohibitions against interracial marriage, including in Texas, and established marriage as one of the core, basic rights enshrined in the Constitution.
That’s proven tough for many anti-gay marriage politicians. When the Supreme Court declined to consider lower court rulings earlier this month, effectively making same-sex marriage legal in a number of states, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who used to argue cases before the high court and so should know better, released a statement asserting that (http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1777) “marriage is a question for the States.”
Yet in Loving, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the court’s unanimous opinion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#Decision) that marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” and that the “freedom to marry … cannot be infringed by the State.” When the GOP candidate for attorney general in Wisconsin responded to a question (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/democrats-hit-candidate-schimel-for-statement-on-interracial-marriage-b99367685z1-278580281.html) about Loving by saying that he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage in court, too, he was at least being consistent.
When Abbott met with the San Antonio Express-News editorial board recently, reporter Peggy Fikac asked him aboutLoving (http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/peggy_fikac/article/Is-there-an-echo-of-the-past-in-the-ban-on-gay-5833451.php#/0). He had defended the state’s gay marriage ban in court recently—would he have defended a ban on interracial marriage?
... (http://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-dildos-interracial-marriage-comment/#.VEVi1-y1QzE.twitter)
If you’re a politician who has taken a public position against gay marriage, as Greg Abbott has, there’s a tricky thing you have to do to keep your position cogent. You need an argument for a same-sex marriage ban that doesn’t contradict or aim to invalidate the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia), which struck prohibitions against interracial marriage, including in Texas, and established marriage as one of the core, basic rights enshrined in the Constitution.
That’s proven tough for many anti-gay marriage politicians. When the Supreme Court declined to consider lower court rulings earlier this month, effectively making same-sex marriage legal in a number of states, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who used to argue cases before the high court and so should know better, released a statement asserting that (http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1777) “marriage is a question for the States.”
Yet in Loving, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the court’s unanimous opinion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#Decision) that marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” and that the “freedom to marry … cannot be infringed by the State.” When the GOP candidate for attorney general in Wisconsin responded to a question (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/democrats-hit-candidate-schimel-for-statement-on-interracial-marriage-b99367685z1-278580281.html) about Loving by saying that he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage in court, too, he was at least being consistent.
When Abbott met with the San Antonio Express-News editorial board recently, reporter Peggy Fikac asked him aboutLoving (http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/peggy_fikac/article/Is-there-an-echo-of-the-past-in-the-ban-on-gay-5833451.php#/0). He had defended the state’s gay marriage ban in court recently—would he have defended a ban on interracial marriage?
... (http://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-dildos-interracial-marriage-comment/#.VEVi1-y1QzE.twitter)