Yes they did and it doesn't matter if you agree or not. Really, that's how far you've fallen? 4 justices and a drooler?
It's the courts job to decide whether laws are constitutional or not. The laws against gay marriage were not constitutional.
The court rightly knocked them down.
Read it yet agian, and weep some more:
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Now, before you repeat the same stupidity yet again:
The word 'marriage' doesn't have to appear in the constitution.
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment says laws apply equally to all.
Yes, California voted it down. That was found unconstitutional.
On August 4, 2010, United States District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker declared Proposition 8 a violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a decision upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on February 7, 2012. The case, known as Perry v. Brown in the Ninth Circuit, was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 31, 2012.[2] The case was granted review as Hollingsworth v. Perry on December 7, 2012 and a decision was issued on June 26, 2013.[3] The Court decided that the official sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal the district court decision when the state's public officials refused to do so.[4] The judgment of the Ninth Circuit was vacated and the case was returned to that Court with instructions to dismiss the Prop 8 sponsors' appeal. On June 28, 2013 a stay of effect was removed from the federal district court decision and same-sex marriages were able to resume. Same-sex couples married later that day.[5]
One amendment doesn't trump another amendment.
Polygamists and pedophiles can still not marry.
The government should be involved in marriage, yet they are and as such... it should have always, and now is, available to gays.
It doesn't matter if states are required to issue marriage licenses or not. Once they do, both gay and straights get them.
Gun rights should not end at state lines.
Taxes should be an equal rate for all taxpayers.
Affirmative action should go away.
There's 9 people on the court, not 5.
The court did it's job, though 4 of them did it wrong.
It did the right thing.
The only slippery slope is the dementia and bigotry you suffer from.
The bigots and homophobes lost.
Hopefully, though I doubt it, your bigotry will fade long enough for you to have enough dignity to stop. Somehow, I doubt you have enough remaining sense to do so.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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