NorCal Native wrote:
And it ONLY took 10 years for this case to get some ruling......hopefully the 10th will combine this case with the one from Utah and we could have both by this Summer!!!
The Windsor Decision was the beginning of the end for the anti gays.Now we have Utah and OK.The anti-gays understand that we live in a Constitutional Republic. They know that the U.S. Constitution is the ultimate law. Yet they still want to find a loop-hole to practice their bigotry.ARTICLE 4 [Legal Status of the Constitution]This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette 1943"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.__________"It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must, of necessity, expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each."- Chief Justice John Marshall; Marbury v Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)__________And for all the States' Rights and "Original Intent" advocates:"The courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges as, a fundamental law. It, therefore, belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents."- Alexander Hamilton; Federalist No. 78
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