Tag Archives: SCOTUS

“Why should the equal protection argument be made in favor of homosexual behavior, which is changeable?  People are not naturally homosexual, so the definition of ‘person’ in the Fourteenth Amendment is being twisted to make this assumption. ‘Person’ should be understood based on historic, beneficial, or at least neutral and fact-based traits; it should not be twisted to incorporate behavior …

From the Washington Post: In striking down both laws, the Supreme Court could adopt the logic of the various appeals courts, or it could find other legally acceptable ways to avoid a sweeping ruling just yet. Same-sex couples could then marry in California, and married same-sex couples across the country could obtain federal benefits — but other states would have …

“As the 28-year-old executive of the Manhattan Declaration, I join my 20-something colleagues Ryan Anderson and Andrew Walker of the Heritage Foundation in echoing Twain’s famous line, ‘the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.’ Both the polling and the voters have demonstrated time and again Americans’ strong support for marriage. What future voters may decide obviously remains to …

(Via Think Progress)

“We are in a very precarious situation right now, so I don’t know that the fears are justified from homosexual activists now who are afraid that the court won’t use this to change the course of this nation and our ethics.  We’re seeing over and over again that there are places where the Constitution doesn’t matter, the will of the …

“The Supreme Court is split with four reliable liberals, four generally conservative justices and one moderate, swing vote — Justice Anthony Kennedy. While Justice Kennedy sided with conservatives in the Obamacare decision, he has a long history of siding with the court’s liberals when it comes to abortion and homosexual rights. “For example, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in …

A coalition of more than 50 LGBT and progressive groups has sent a letter to President Obama asking that he order a hold on the deportations of all gay-married foreign nationals until the Supreme Court issues its ruling on DOMA. The groups urged the president to “hold in abeyance” cases currently under consideration by federal immigration authorities of United States …

“The ‘Gay Marriage’-at-all-cost lobby is pushing more misinformation every day falsely stating that Americans are turning toward so-called “gay marriage.” If this were true, then the overwhelming majority of states would not have laws and amendments supporting marriage as between only one man and woman. A few small margins in stolen elections do not make majority rule across the board. …

Politico today notes that thus far the leadership of the Republican Party has not uttered a peep about Friday’s Supreme Court decisions.  Hate groups, naturally, are disappointed. House Republican leaders had a uniform response to the Supreme Court’s decision to take up gay marriage: silence. The high court’s decision last week to hear two cases relating to same-sex marriage puts …

Yesterday Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia repeated one of his most famously foul comparisons. Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. “I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective,” Scalia said, adding that legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be …

“To strike down Prop 8 on ‘narrow grounds’ proposed by the 9th Circuit is so intellectually dishonest that if that is what the Court wished to do I think they would have refused to hear the case. I think Kennedy will overturn DOMA (perhaps joined by Roberts) and then uphold the right of states to refuse to accept gay marriage …

For the “Yes, we should worry” side, here’s noted journalist Linda Hirshman, the author of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. In 1996 Justice Anthony Kennedy, still rumored to be the swing vote this time, wrote a groundbreaking opinion in favor of the political rights of gays. In 2003, the Supreme Court threw out the remaining state laws making sodomy criminal. …

“I pray the court will affirm the fact that the institution of marriage, which is as old as humanity and written in our very nature, is the union of one man and one woman. Marriage is the foundation of a just society, as it protects the most vulnerable among us, children. It is the only institution that unites children with …

“By taking these cases, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm our most cherished values by preserving the American people’s right to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Those who persist in forcing their preferred redefinition of marriage on the country by rule of law stand squarely against everything on which this country was …

This from the man whom many characterize as one of America’s leading conservative thinkers. The full discussion from this morning’s show is here.

Video by JMG reader Sean Chapin.

“When Thea and I met nearly 50 years ago, we never could have dreamed that the story of our life together would be before the Supreme Court as an example of why gay married couples should be treated equally, and not like second-class citizens. While Thea is no longer alive, I know how proud she would have been to see …

“The Supreme Court’s decision today to determine whether the Constitution allows state and federal government to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman is a welcome development. When the executive branch of the government is no longer willing to defend its own law, the final arbiter must be the highest court in the land. Today’s announcement …