Interesting if that holds up in court. It would invalidate a lot of anti same sex marriage laws. For instance Virginia just passed (and the wing nut governor signed) a law that refuses to recognize same sex marriages from other states and DC.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is essentially what is going on now, sans all the BS from the right. > The government isn't recognizing religious marriages, but only the civil > aspects of it. You can get married in your religion without the sanction of > the state. It's perfectly legal to do so, but with the caveat, you don't > get all the legal protections in regards to visitation, inheritance, etc > that you do when the government sanctions the civil side. The government > can care less what religion you are getting married in (with the exception > of a few states, mostly in the south, who have ordination requirements to > keep out smaller faiths and non-Christian faiths that do not ordain their > ministers. The rest is covered by the Constitution, so the states really > shouldn't get to decide if they are going to discriminate or not. If I > marry a guy here in IL (for sake of argument), in accordance with the US > constitution, ALL states must recognize the marriage as legal and binding. > Anything less is a violation of the US Constitution. The arguments against > allowing gay marriage are extremely lame and lack any logical thought. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:46 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party > > > "They said government should recognize any marriages and only recognize > civil unions, whether they be between opposite sex or same sex. " > > Should have been > > They said government should not recognize any marriages and only recognize > civil unions, whether they be between opposite sex or same sex. > > J > > - > > No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in > session. - Mark Twain > > The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and > provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas Jefferson > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
