I have heard that same-sex marriage is next on the Christian warriors
agenda. I have some friends who are very scared about that prospect.
I'm trying to understand how that would work. Assuming that Obergefell was >overturned, what would happen? Could they try to retroactively undo
existing marriages?
Side question - it got me wondering about different states' differing rules >for who can marry [ignoring same-sex]: close relatives, minimum age. For >example, what happens now if someone gets married in a state where the >minimum age is 16 and they go to a state where the minimum age is 18?
With [most likely] same-sex marriage as next-up on the radically
right current SCOTUS for reversal, I got to wondering about a few
things.
I've heard that there are *hundreds* of law [state laws I presume?
Are there federal laws, too?] that mention and/or affect
"marriage". Assuming that's true I have a few questions:
1) in states that honor civil unions and/or common law marriages,
are those arrangements completely/implicitly included in/by all
the laws affecting "state sanctioned marriages".
2) Is it possible to archive via various legal
documents/agreements [I'm thinking here of things like arranging
for visitation at a hospital, joint property, inheritance, medical directives, etc, etc] to get an otherwise unsanctioned partnership
to have all {most?} of the protections, rights and privileges of a
"state sanctioned marriage". If obergefell gets overturned I
wonder if some lawyers will make a killing in the states that opt
not to sanction such unions by providing all those legal documents
and such as a package deal :o)
With [most likely] same-sex marriage as next-up on the radically right current SCOTUS for reversal, I got to wondering about a few things.
Overturning gay marriage would cause some major problems due to the
full faith and credit requirement in the Constitution. So I doubt it
would happen at this point.
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indiantribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the publicActs, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the
On 6/23/2022 10:31 PM, Stuart O. Bronstein wrote:
Overturning gay marriage would cause some major problems due to the
full faith and credit requirement in the Constitution. So I doubt it
would happen at this point.
If the Supreme Court overturned Obergefell v. Hodges and United States
v. Windsor, then the Defense of Marriage Act would (probably) be
re-instated. Section 2 says:
Nobody Special<Nobody.Special@example.onion> wrote:
} Justice Clarence Thomas - widely regarded as the Supreme Court's most
} conservative member - has written a concurring opinion alongside his
} vote to overturn Roe.
}
} In it, Thomas goes beyond affirming today's ruling to ask the court to
} "reconsider" past Supreme Court decisions.
}
} He asks to re-evaluate Griswold, which safeguards the right to
} contraception, Lawrence, which invalidated anti-sodomy laws, and
} Obergefell, which legalised same-sex marriage nationwide.
Did anyone notice that he didn't mention "Loving v Virginia"? I wonder
why he overlooked that one :o)
Nobody Special <Nobody.Special@example.onion> wrote:
} Justice Clarence Thomas - widely regarded as the Supreme Court's most
} conservative member - has written a concurring opinion alongside his
} vote to overturn Roe.
}
} In it, Thomas goes beyond affirming today's ruling to ask the court to
} "reconsider" past Supreme Court decisions.
}
} He asks to re-evaluate Griswold, which safeguards the right to
} contraception, Lawrence, which invalidated anti-sodomy laws, and
} Obergefell, which legalised same-sex marriage nationwide.
Did anyone notice that he didn't mention "Loving v Virginia"? I wonder
why he overlooked that one :o)
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