First, the New York Supreme Court rules that the state’s law limiting marriage to a man and woman is constitutional. Then the Georgia Supreme Court reinstates the ban on gay marriage and civil unions passed in 2004, ruling that the ban didn’t violate the “single issue” rule for ballot measures.
At least the New York Supremes left open the option that the legislature could change the law in the future. Georgia has enshrined its bigotry in the state constitution, just as Alabama did last month.
I have to believe that our citizens will look back in horror at this mess a generation or two in the future. But that’s not much comfort to gay couples who share in none of the myriad benefits that straight married couples take for granted.
Yes, but at least you can rest secure because there’s a consititutional amendment preventing me from succumbing to the gay agenda and marrying another guy and sharing his health insurance.
What a bunch of shit.
I seriously don’t get it. There are no laws that limit how many times a straight person can marry, no matter how badly they screw up. There are no laws that limit how many children an individual can have, no matter how badly they screw up bearing children.
There are no laws that can keep a marriage intact, nor keep a parent from abandoning their obligations.
Indeed, there are no laws that can keep a person, a citizen, FROM fulfilling their legal duties as a significant other…or parent through CHOOSING to marry.
Until now…..
I have just entered the Twilight Zone….