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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou Can't Just Take Away Someone's Marriage
4 Reasons SCOTUS May Have Taken the Michigan CaseA federal judge has ruled that Michigan cannot revoke marriage from gay and lesbian couples who received marriage licenses during a 24-hour period last May when the state performed them.
Updated: Supreme Court to Hear Marriage Cases
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a series of marriage cases, included among them a pivotal case out of Michigan, where a federal judge ruling on a related case just outlined the reasons that now is the time for the justices to intervene.
Earlier this week, District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Michigan ruled that the state must recognize the marriages of the approximately 320 same-sex couples who obtained marriage licenses during a one-day window when such unions were legal last May.
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Goldsmith's ruling is infused with irritation at the state's attempt to nullify existing marriage licenses. The state's argument is that the licenses issued in May were in some way "conditional" or "temporary," an argument that Goldsmith just isn't buying:
Defendants notion that Plaintiffs marriages were somehow conditionally valid ... is made out of whole cloth. There is nothing in the record to indicate that the marriage licenses that Michigan county clerks issued to Plaintiffs contained any language that was conditional. Nor does Michigan law recognize any concept of a conditional marriage.
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You Can't Just Take Away Someone's Marriage (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jan 2015
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elleng
(131,138 posts)1. Right, good omen but
no guarantee.
sheshe2
(83,927 posts)2. There are never guarantees.
Only hope.
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)3. I wouldn't put anything passed the people
Who appointed George W Bush to the White House, and now they have more wing nuts to agree.
sheshe2
(83,927 posts)4. Well let us give it a chance,
It is the right thing to do. Let us hope they do it.
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)5. I hope and pray they do the right thing.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)6. My ex-wife did!
Then she sued me!