Gays

[indago]

Journalist Tresa Baldas wrote for The Detroit Free Press 6 November 2014:
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The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, issued its decision three months after hearing same-sex marriage cases from all four states. In each of those states, federal judges had struck down same-sex marriage bans on constitutional grounds.


In a 2-1 vote, the Sixth Circuit overturned those decisions, concluding the definition of marriage should be left to the voters -- not judges -- and that voters should be allowed to decide whether gay marriage is a good idea or not.


"Not one of the plaintiffs' theories ... makes the case for constitutionalizing the definition of marriage and for removing the issue from the place it has been since the founding: in the hands of state voters," the court wrote.
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[PixieStix]

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...-Marriage-Bans

[stevecanuck]

The main problem with democracy is that it allows for tyranny by majority.

[indago]

Journalist John Hanna wrote for The Associated Press 31 October 2014:
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The Kansas attorney general's office told a federal judge Friday that he should not consider blocking the state from enforcing its gay-marriage ban until the state Supreme Court weighs in, while the American Civil Liberties Union argued same-sex couples suffer legal harm if the judge delays a decision. The arguments came in a hearing on the ACLU's request for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Kansas' gay-marriage ban while U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree considers the group's lawsuit on behalf of two lesbian couples.


...Kansas law has never recognized same-sex marriages, and voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution in 2005 to add a gay-marriage ban.
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Some may wonder why the ACLU fights so hard for "Gay Rights", and the "Illegal Alien Causes".


From the ACLU WebSite:
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Anthony D. Romero — Executive Director


Romero is the ACLU's sixth executive director, and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity.
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[Gunny]

The main problem with democracy is that it allows for tyranny by majority.

The main problem with the progressive left is the belief in tyranny of the minority.

[Gunny]

The main problem with democracy is that it allows for tyranny by majority.

The main problem with democracy is it allows for tyranny of the MINORITY, Grow up.

[Perianne]

Gay Guardsman Has Returned to Drills With His Unit

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/us...tary.html?_r=0

[Perianne]

Korea Learns One Man's Meat Is Another's Passion

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/in...ia/13KORE.html

[Atticus Finch]

The main problem with democracy is that it allows for tyranny by majority.

As opposed to tyranny by the minority?...the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few

[Black Diamond]

As opposed to tyranny by the minority?...the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few

Good evening Mr Spock.

[Atticus Finch]

Good evening Mr Spock.

Live long and prosper.

[indago]

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...-Marriage-Bans

Hmmm! I searched, and didn't see this one. Possibly got posted while I was formatting.

[fj1200]

Journalist Tresa Baldas wrote for The Detroit Free Press 6 November 2014:
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In a 2-1 vote, the Sixth Circuit overturned those decisions, concluding the definition of marriage should be left to the voters -- not judges -- and that voters should be allowed to decide whether gay marriage is a good idea or not.

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That won't last long IMO.

The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet weighed in on the issue of gay marriage. Now that there's a split in the federal appeals courts on the issue -- the gay-marriage movement has won 30-plus cases in the last year -- the Supreme Court will likely take up the issue, she said.
"We feel the Supreme Court was waiting for this," Nessell said. "We're looking forward to this issue being resolved once and for all for in this country, and I have every confidence that by the end of June 2015, there will be marriage equality in all 50 states."

[indago]

April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, a lesbian couple living in Michigan, bring their case under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. There is nothing equal about two gays and the traditional man-woman marriage. Two women do not equal one man and one woman.




From Fox News 7 January 2011:
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'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on Passport Applications — The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. "They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’"


“Even though my partner was their legal mother, had adopted them after I gave birth to them, she still had to put her name in the father field, and that is both discriminatory and makes us feel like second-class citizens,” she said.
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Gays seem to be suffering from an identity crisis: they actually believe that a woman is a husband. Continuing on from their victories in the courtrooms on the gay marriage issue, they will next be petitioning for removal of "HUSBAND" and "WIFE" from our documents. Then, petition for removal of FATHER'S DAY and MOTHER'S DAY from the calendars so that they won't feel uncomfortable when the time arrives.

[fj1200]

April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, a lesbian couple living in Michigan, bring their case under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. There is nothing equal about two gays and the traditional man-woman marriage. Two women do not equal one man and one woman.

Incorrect. In a majority of the states right now they can marry, which makes equal. Besides SCOTUS already laid the groundwork as Equal Protection applying.