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2022-07-18 Home Front: Politix

Ted Cruz says Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage in 2015 was 'clearly wrong'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Let them be married and STFU. Don't give them any room to complain anymore.

Posted by Chris 2022-07-18 10:55|| 2022-07-18 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I think that whenever homosexual marriage has been put to the voters, it has lost--even in Hawaii and California (twice.) How about letting the voters decide. Whether we are a democracy or a republic, more than 9 people should be able to vote on laws.

Posted by Tom 2022-07-18 14:09|| 2022-07-18 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Does seem problematic to have something like this at the the state level. I mean you get married in one state but then it doesn't count in another? I'm all for pushing things back to the states but in this case just leave it alone.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-18 16:46|| 2022-07-18 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a valid argument that the gummint at any level should not be involved in marriage at all. To the extent it is treated like a legal contract for the most part, there needs to be some legal common ground, so legal authorities are involved. I don't see any way around that.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-18 16:56|| 2022-07-18 16:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Right - Marriage should be a Legal and Religions concern - not government. Except perhaps to protect the children's rights.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-07-18 17:09|| 2022-07-18 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Think of all the property, inheritance, and other regulations such as child custody are predicated on: "One man (the breadwinner) and one woman (childbearer that as a chattel needs society's protection). One snarling this is a herculean task not...

...Pete Buttigieg getting maternal leave because he is (quote) married (un-quote).

Posted by magpie 2022-07-18 21:52|| 2022-07-18 21:52|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Unsnarling this is a herculean task...
(Autocorrect...)

Posted by magpie 2022-07-18 21:54|| 2022-07-18 21:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Contracts protect the individuals involved, and can be whatever the parties want, to include a the temporary prostitution-marriages of the Shiites. But unless very carefully stipulated, provides no consistent protection for the children that result from the contracted relationship — in fact, can easily be written to give the children no rights whatsoever on one or both parents.

Legally recognized marriage, a very different thing, protects the rights of the children — who are not old enough to understand or sign contracts, and anyway did not get to choose to be involved in the one they’re in — and the responsibilities of the parents to care for them.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-18 23:46|| 2022-07-18 23:46|| Front Page Top

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