The Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry nationwide, in a historic decision that invalidates gay marriage bans in more than a dozen states.
Gay and lesbian couples already can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court’s ruling on Friday means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage.
The outcome is the culmination of two decades of Supreme Court litigation over marriage, and gay rights generally.
You can peruse the full ruling here, but the meat of the activist Court’s over-long decision hinges on a single paragraph.
The Court used Section 1 of the Fourteen Amendment to justify their argument, which reads:
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
By using the Constitution in such a manner, the Court argues that the Due Process Clause extends “certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy” accepted in a majority of states across the state lines of a handful of states that still banned the practice.
The vast majority of states are “shall issue” on the matter of issuing concealed carry permits, and enjoy reciprocity with a large number of other states.
My North Carolina concealed carry permit, for example, was recognized yesterday as being valid in 36 states, which just so happened to be the number of states in which gay marriage was legal yesterday. But 14 states did not recognize my concealed carry permit yesterday.
Today they must.
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Good luck with that... Great idea but the courts won't up good that and even if you can get it to trial... Go to new jersey and try it and watch you go to jail.... You don't have a liscense in NJ to own or losses a gun and they Wil lock you up.... Did it to a guy who moved to New York and was passing through...
ReplyDeletei should have moved to Australia when i had the chance
ReplyDeletenice try
ReplyDeletePlease, by all means. Feel free to do so.
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that same interpetation applies to the right to bear arms i.e carry ..it is a right no state can infringe upon..it applies..i agree..
ReplyDeleteI'm sure NRA lawyers are working on it now. I'm ready to carry!!!
ReplyDeleteIt will take violence to stop this oppressive government.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that if you're going to make a law for one sector, it must apply to all.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, the SCOTUS is only there to DEFINE/ EXPLAIN the EXISTING laws, not to MAKE them.
So, this "Decision" is completely out of their scope of work!
They have no power to define STATES laws at all. Only the Federal which are granted BY the states.
Read your Constitution!
And, yes, I have the right to carry in all 50/57 States.
U can still move
ReplyDeleteAustralia don't allow it's citizens to own guns anymore. Look it up.
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