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| Topic | The Supreme Court is back Oct 3rd |
| adjl 10/03/22 10:22:00 AM #11: | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Well, since I don't understand why don't you demonstrate that you do by helping me out with that deficiency? Well, for starters, it's not the Supreme Court pushing for a federal abortion ban, nor were states' rights actually the basis for overturning Roe v. Wade (as much as many proponents liked to bring them up). On the matter of gay marriage, it wasn't that the Supreme Court decided it was a federal matter (there's ample reason to say anything related to marriage should be handled federally, given how complicated taxes can get if somebody is married in one state but not another, but that's a separate discussion), it's that the constitution guarantees a right to marital privacy that laws against gay marriage violate (the same justification is the basis for protecting interracial marriage and access to contraception). It was, in fact, always a federal matter. Some states just chose to ignore the constitution. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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