Gay Marriage Now Legal Across The US

I would have guessed 22.

Just remember with gay marriage comes gay divorce. I wonder if some slick tv producer will come up with lbgt divorce court. I could watch that for the comedic value alone.

How exactly does gay divorce work? With 2 males or females it will be impossible too screw the man out of everything!

Well for those who think gay marriage is only a bad thing, perhaps this could lead to reforms in divorce law for everyone. Of course that may be another long wait for justice and equality.

How exactly does gay divorce work? With 2 males or females it will be impossible too screw the man out of everything!

My favorite take on the related facebook trend so far.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defended the religious liberty of state employees in a statement Sunday, saying they would not have to issue marriage licenses or perform weddings for same-sex couples and called the Supreme Court’s Friday decision “a lawless ruling.”

While critics see this as short-lived political posturing, some conservatives see it as the start of a state's rights movement against the US high court's decision on gay marriages.

The court's landmark 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges declared same-sex marriage a constitutional right, but Attorney General Paxton said in a statement that the ruling “stops at the door of the First Amendment” and cannot touch religious freedom.

He added that lawyers would be made available to anti-same-sex marriage officials who face legal consequences for religiously motivated actions.

“A ruling by the US Supreme Court is considered the law of the land, but a judge-made edict that is not based in the law or the Constitution diminishes faith in our system of government and the rule of law,” Paxton said.

His condemnation of the decision echoes similar remarks by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who said in a statement Friday that no “adverse action” may be taken against state officials acting – or refusing to act – on their religious beliefs.

“Texans of all faiths must be absolutely secure in the knowledge that their religious freedom is beyond the reach of government,” Gov. Abbott said. “Renewing and reinforcing that promise is all the more important in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The government must never pressure a person to abandon or violate his or her sincerely held religious beliefs regarding a topic such as marriage.”

"The Court used Section 1 of the Fourteen Amendment to justify its 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.

Now here is the kicker, as the writer articulately brings to light: “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."

all it does is pull us apart as a country

It is about time took us to dam long to pass this bill

That's now how the Supreme Court works.

It is not the supreme courts job to make law, their job is to interpret law to make decisions based on the constitutionality of the law.

Which is exactly what they did.

But it isnt their job for this, like abortion gay marriage is an issue for the states. There is no mention in the constitution about marriage or abortion hence it is an issue for the states