Posts Tagged ‘Defense of Marriage Act’
Key Provision in Defense of Marriage Act is Struck Down by United States Supreme Court
on Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Elvis has left the building and the Supreme Court has left town… But just before they did they handed out a raft of major decisions. Amazingly enough some of them weren’t so bad. The net effect of the Supreme Court’s two decisions today on DOMA and on California’s Proposition 8 is that the power to decide whether or not to permit same sex marriage is left up to the States as it rightfully should be. This decision should not be construed as a defeat for traditional Christians…
Read More »Supreme Court to Decide on Same Sex Marriage
on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
On the grand scale of things, the Supreme Court hearing this week on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s decision to ban same sex marriage might not be very high on your list of things to be most worried about. What with our country running up a 16 ½ trillion dollar debt and a runaway illegal alien amnesty bill heading right down the tracks, some people might think there are bigger fish to fry. And they might be excused for feeling like that. But I am sure that the LGBT community doesn’t feel that way…
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