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WASHINGTONAfter months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court opted today to leave the ultimate decision on whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry in the more than capable hands of states such as Texas, Alabama, and Georgia. As to the issue of gay marriage itself, we will not interfere with the individual commonwealths authority to fairly and competently dictate its own laws in these matters, seeing as states such as, for instance, Georgia have time and again proven themselves eminently adept at making the fairest and most reasoned of decisions, said Chief Justice John Roberts of the state where sodomy laws were fiercely enforced until federally overturned in 2003. Though the courts ruling will delay the recognition of gay marriage on a state-by-state basis, the nations homosexuals should rest easy knowing that their freedoms and right to the pursuit of happiness lie within the famously rational and egalitarian legislatures of states such as Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida, Montana, Utah, and West Virginia. Roberts added that who better to have final authority on signing equal rights legislation into law than the likes of Jan Brewer, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker.
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mike_c
(36,281 posts)I live in California, where Prop 8 was smacked down, so everyone but the bigots are happy with the immediate effects of the rulings, or at least the local effects. But I also think the ruling sends a very chilling message to the states that challenges to bigoted anti-gay marriage laws will have a good chance of being heard and acted upon in federal court, and I hope it makes governors and state AGs think twice about setting their citizens up for expensive and lengthy court cases that are ultimately likely to fail. And if not, I suspect it will only take one more such case to put the lid on institutionalizing anti-gay bigotry for good.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)like Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana to this beautiful heaven.